[ April 23, 2024 ]
Why did they want to behead me? Because I violated sharia, specifically the prohibition on depicting Muhammad. Why did Donald Trump and Bill O’Reilly and Laura Ingraham and so many others excoriate me? Because I violated sharia, specifically the prohibition on depicting Muhammad.
“Feds add more charges against Massachusetts and Rhode Island men accused in Islamic State beheading plot,” by Conor Berry, Associated Press, April 21, 2016:
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BOSTON — Two New England men accused of aiding the Islamic State and plotting to behead anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller are now facing additional charges, according to U.S. Atttorney Carmen Ortiz.
David D. Wright, 26, of Everett, and Nicholas A. Rovinski, 25, of Warwick, Rhode Island, were charged Thursday in a superseding indictment with conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism “transcending national boundaries” and other charges, federal prosecutors said. Arraignment dates have not been set, said Christina Sterling, a spokeswoman for Ortiz.
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Wright and Rovinski, both of whom used various aliases, were previously indicted by a grand jury in June 2015 for allegedly conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL. The indictment also charged Wright with obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Wright and Rovinski conspired with Usaamah Abdullah Rahim, Wright’s uncle, who was shot and killed after attacking law enforcement officers in the Roslindale section of Boston on June 2, 2015, prosecutors said. On the morning of his death, Rahim told Wright that he could not wait to go after Geller – identified in the indictment as “Intended Victim-1” – and the “boys in blue” in Massachusetts, a slang reference to law enforcement officials, according to authorities.
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Beginning around February 2015, Wright began holding discussions with Rahim and Rovinski about ISIL’s call to kill “non-believers” in the U.S., prosecutors said. The trio then began plotting and recruiting members for their “martyrdom” operation, authorities allege.
In March 2015, Wright drafted organizational documents for a “martyrdom operations cell” and conducted Internet searches about weapons, the effectiveness of tranquilizers on people, and the establishment of secret militias in the U.S., the indictment alleges. His Internet searches included “which tranquilizer puts humans to sleep instantly,” “what is the most flammable chemical,” and “how to start a secret militia in (the) US,” according to the indictment, which was unsealed Thursday.
Simultaneously, Rahim communicated with ISIL members overseas, including Junaid Hussain, who was killed in an airstrike in Raqqah, Syria, on Aug. 24, 2015. Beginning around May 2015, the indictment alleges, Hussain communicated directly with Rahim, who in turn communicated Hussain’s instructions to Wright about killing an individual living in New York, later identified as Geller.
Geller is a Long Island, New York, political blogger and activist known for her criticism of Islam and sponsorship of the “Draw the Prophet” cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, which ended with an armed attack by two men on May 3, 2015. Both assailants were shot and killed by police. Two days later, the Islamic State publicly condemned Geller and called for her “slaughter.”
Wright, Rovinski and Rahim each allegedly conspired to commit attacks and kill people inside the U.S. on behalf of ISIL. In preparation for their attack, Rovinski conducted research on weapons that could be used to behead their victims, prosecutors said. Since being arrested, Rovinski has sought to continue planned attacks and has written letters to Wright from prison discussing ways to take down the U.S. government and decapitate non-believers, authorities said.
The charge of “conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries” is punishable by life imprisonment, lifetime supervised release, and a $250,000 fine. The charges of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and obstruction of justice come with maximum 20-year sentences and $250,000 fines, while conspiracy to obstruct justice is punishable by up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine….
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13 Comments
8 years ago
Pam is brave. These mfs is crazy.
Seriously, the Islamists are fantastic at radicalizing and mobilizing people. If only our schools were so effective at radicalizing kids to believe in blaka blaka blaka (homework jihad), blaka blaka (get a job jihad), and blaka blakastan blaka (don’t commit crime jihad).
8 years ago
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Hillary/Ryan 2016
Well just vote for Hillary which is a vote for more Muslim refugees and common core ( Islam in schools ) which is a vote for Islam.
8 years ago
Springtime to nutjobs!
8 years ago
It’s so appaling that politicians from Obama to Trump, Hillary to Merkel, Cameron, Biden share their ideological discontempt to Pamela Geller & submissive adherence to Muhammad with Isil.
8 years ago
Pam, my advice: watch your back and keep your head low.
8 years ago
Sentence them to be sent to Alaska, given a five minute head start, then, hunted down by Sarah Palin. If they can elude her for a day, they can walk back to Boston. They will have to cross northern Canada, guess who will be waiting. Not that there is any doubt that they will never get anywhere close, but…
8 years ago
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8 years ago
Looks like Walpole just found a new bubba.
8 years ago
What an absolutely amazing woman you are. Thank you for fighting for us.
8 years ago
These guys will never rest. They look for the mistakes made and attempt to correct them in their next endeavor. With all the internet searches and open weapons shopping they did they may as well have put up a billboard. You can bet there will be a next time. The Second Amendment never looked better.
8 years ago
We know Laura is an anti-Semite, Trump sometimes talks out of his hat and Bill takes orders from Fox that the Muslims partially own.
