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“There was no mention at Kareem’s trial that an undercover agent had witnessed the shooting and exchanged social media messages with Simpson days before the attack. The agent’s involvement in the case was first mentioned in court records nearly eight months after Kareem’s trial ended.”
The FBI still hasn’t answered for that, and it needs to, but what its connection is to Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem is unclear. Did Kareem conspire to slaughter Americans on American soil for exercising their First Amendment rights get you? If so, then he was properly convicted, although he should have been charged with treason and sedition. But no one talks about such things anymore.
“Arizona man convicted in 2015 Texas attack seeks new trial,” by Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press, June 13, 2018:
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PHOENIX — An Arizona man convicted of helping plot a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in suburban Dallas is seeking a new trial, arguing prosecutors did not reveal that an undercover FBI agent who witnessed the shooting had communicated about the contest with an accused recruiter for the Islamic State.
The agent’s presence at the anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, was publicly revealed months after Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem was convicted in the May 2015 attack that ended when Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, friends of Kareem who were Islamic State followers, were killed in a shootout with police.
The disclosure about the agent’s presence led Kareem to make an unsuccessful bid for a new trial last year and raised questions about whether authorities could have done more to stop the attack.
In a court filing Monday, Kareem’s attorneys asked again for a new trial, saying a prosecutor at another trial last spring in Ohio said that Erick Jamal Hendricks, who was accused of recruiting for the Islamic State, was “unequivocally tied to this attack.
Prosecutor Rebecca Magnone told the Ohio jurors that Hendricks had been in contact with Simpson, who was killed by Garland police on May 3, 2015, along with Soofi after they exited a car outside the convention center wearing body armor and carrying rifles.
The information that emerged from the Ohio trial is crucial information that could lead to a different outcome for Kareem if he is granted a new trial, his defense attorneys said.
“This is not what this court heard previously from the government in Kareem’s case,” wrote Daniel Drake, one of Kareem’s attorneys.
After Kareem’s trial ended, federal authorities said there was no substantive connection between Hendricks and the cartoon contest, Drake said.
There was no mention at Kareem’s trial that an undercover agent had witnessed the shooting and exchanged social media messages with Simpson days before the attack. The agent’s involvement in the case was first mentioned in court records nearly eight months after Kareem’s trial ended.
Cosme Lopez, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Phoenix, declined to comment on Kareem’s latest request. In an appellate court document filed earlier this year over Kareem’s conviction, prosecutors said Kareem couldn’t show the judge made in an error in rejecting the request for a new trial.
Kareem is serving a 30-year prison sentence for his convictions that included providing support to the Islamic State. Prosecutors have said Kareem trained Simpson and Soofi on how to use guns and watched jihadist videos with them.
On the day of the attack, the agent communicated with Hendricks via social media while the agent was outside the convention center where the event was held. Hendricks asked the agent about the number of officers at the scene and whether snipers were present.
The agent had been sitting in a vehicle outside the Garland convention center just as the cartoon contest ended. Moments before the shooting, he took photos of a police officer and another person standing in the distance near a tree and an image showing a parking lot.
Kareem’s attorney said Hendricks put the undercover agent into contact with Simpson 10 days before the attack. In one encounter with the agent, Simpson referred to the upcoming contest in Texas….
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10 Comments
5 years ago
Silver lining to this (scratching hard): It keeps the Draw Mohammad Contest in the public eye … until the next one.
Other than that, rot in jail, thug.
5 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Agree. And Dems have been bringing jihad right into America.
somali jihadis attack American citizens while police make excuses https://tinyurl.com/ycymp8wv
Its happening in Demonrat run counties/states .
5 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
I still remember that contest. My two favorite drawings were the chalk lines in the parking lot.
5 years ago
This seems to be frequent when prosecutors undercharge.
My former mayor won a lawsuit against those who did not let her run for reelection after Graceland decided to so badly undercharge her criminal break-in that the judge allowed a fine and no charges logged as convicted.
(Betty Gloyd/Hoffman Estates)
5 years ago
New trial? He should have been shot after they caught him. That’s what he was planning to do, he had no intention to give a trial to his intended victims.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mariaca
In America, we have these things called habeas corpus and trials. I for one hope we keep it that way- we should should not dispense with trials simply because criminals don’t give their victims that opportunity.
Sometimes I think one of the worst aspects to the growth of Islam in the USA is that Americans may allow it to undermine traditional American institutions.
5 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
“…may allow it to undermine traditional American institutions.” Yeah it’s not like the f’ing muslums would be trying to do that allah on their own eh nematode?
5 years ago
Don’t call the perp an ‘Arizona man’ — he’s not. He’s an arab and a filthy muzzzie who came to this country.
5 years ago
Every attack on an American by a muslim jihadi is an act of war, as the vast majority are committed against complete strangers to terrorize all civilians. They do in the name of allah to gain more ground for their people and more forced conversions to islam. They plan to do this by overthrowing our government and replacing it with Sharia law.
Because of muslim Barrack Hussein Obama, these filthy jihadis are able to bleed our taxes dry in civilian courts, with civilian rights, instead of facing justice in our military courts where they should have been housed and convicted.
5 years ago
America really has gone soft in so many ways…liberalism has consumed our entire society in subtle but profound ways.
