US charges New York Muslim father, teenage son Jihad who fought alongside Islamic State

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The family that prays together slays together.

Ali and his son admitted to having been fighters for the English-speaking Anwar al-Awlaki battalion. Yes, Anwar al-Awlaki, the Americam Imam lauded by the New York Times and Capitol Hill.

I kid you not.

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US charges New York father, teenage son who joined Islamic State

Emraan Ali allegedly told prosecutors he snuck his family into Syria after in-laws told him they had a good life under IS.

Al-Monitor Staff. Oct 1, 2020

Prosecutors in the United States unveiled charges Wednesday evening against a man and his son who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS).

Trinidad-born Emraan Ali, 53, brought his wife, stepchild and five other children to Syria in 2015 to live under IS, prosecutors allege. Among them was his then-14-year-old son Jihad.

Both Emraan and Jihad received IS military training for the so-called caliphate, according to the criminal complaints against them. They surrendered to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) at IS’ final battle, near Baghouz, Syria, in March 2019, according to prosecutors.

They are the latest American citizens to be charged for providing material support to IS. Earlier in September, a Kosovo-born former resident of Chicago appeared in court in Washington, DC, on allegations that he joined IS. Another man who had been captured in Baghouz, Abdulhamid al-Madioum, from Minneapolis, was also charged this month.

On Sept. 2, 23-year-old Omar Kuzu of Texas pled guilty after joining IS in Syria.

Prosecutors say both Ali and his son admitted to having been fighters for the English-speaking Anwar al-Awlaki battalion. Jihad claimed he fired his weapon multiple times, but he said he did not believe he ever shot directly at anyone and downplayed WhatsApp messages he had sent to his mother from Syria saying he had fought in battles against the SDF.

His father, Emraan, told investigators he used a medical excuse to abandon their unit after several fighters were killed, according to the indictment.

But among other IS documents appearing to reference members of the Ali family, a hard drive recovered by the US military in Syria contained a file mentioning that out of 44 men in a reconnaissance unit, one Abu Jihad al-Trinidadi al-Amriki (the father of Jihad, the Trinidadian-American) was the only one to be issued an American M4 assault rifle, a prized symbol among IS jihadists.

He was also referred to as Abu Jihad “TNT,” for Trinidad and Tobago, prosecutors allege.

Emraan told investigators that his wife’s sister and her husband first traveled to live under IS and informed him they had a good life under the jihadist state……..

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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

Rule # 15: When one door closes, another door opens.
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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Barrett’s family. Notice that the facial postures, the expressions are very similar for everyone here. Facial posture is socially learned, and it varies a lot across countries and cultures. The Haitian kids have American expressions, a good sign, since they are Americans now.comment image

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

They look like nice kids but NEVER let smiles fool you. How they look really means nothing. It is what is in the heart and mind that matters. Both Haitians were adopted when they were very little. Neither was around much to raise them. Both are ambitious. Someone else raised them.

Here’s a serial killer couple – Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.
She looks a bit skanky but he looks like the wholesome guy next door. You wouldn’t think either one was a serial killer. The successful psychopaths are the ones that LOOK presentable and know how to behave. I am not suggesting any of her kids fit this category but never go by appearance!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12301518
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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Felix: Oh I didn’t say that anyone there is nice, or a good person. I just said that their facial postures fit USA culture. Americans have extremely expressive facial postures, and if they are happy, or sad, or angry, it’s very obvious on their faces, immediately.

In many other cultures, people tend to conceal their feelings, and not show them on their facial expression. The mainland Chinese are famous for that, and research shows it’s valid, in public, their faces do not display their emotions as strongly as Americans.

The two murderers you show actually ave typical USA [or Canadian] facial postures. They look happy and they are happy. They are evil, but they have normal American facial postures.

My only point is that the Haitian kids have the same facial expressions and facial postures as the rest of the family – they have absorbed American culture.

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disqus_1dO8EuhP28
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

smile… they supposed cry? your stupid abservation

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

Block user

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Homolka has three kids now! Can U imagine? She helped her degenerate, sick, twisted husband rape and murder her own sister and she now has kids!
Her husband was the Scarborough serial rapist before he ever met Homolka.

Dalit
Dalit
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

we always got Twitter LOL

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Trump needs to rest.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Yeah, well he will rest, in Walter Reed hospital.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
3 years ago

shitslam has killed exponentially more folks than kung flu – why is it not considered a plague?

patd
patd
3 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

The followers are definitely parasites!!!

patd
patd
3 years ago

Just hang them!!!!!

anonQ
anonQ
3 years ago

These are the kind of people biden and the dems want to open our doors to. Lock em up for a long time then kick them out of the country.

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
3 years ago

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Andrew Blackadder
Andrew Blackadder
3 years ago
Reply to  Roma Mikhasev

Im a Brit and from 1975 to 1978 I traveled from Cairo to Cape Town and back up as far as Nairobi alone as I was in my early 20s when I did so, and now I look at the countries I visited, past through, and the ones I stayed in, and I can see they are ALL disaster cases, much worse off today than during the mid 1970s, so whos fault is that.. whitey???… Africans cant seem to feed or house themselves, they were fed and housed during Colonization days, the Europeans built Roads, Hospitals, Train Lines, Infrastructure, and once it was all built, the Africans told them they must now leave as they didnt want them, or need them anymore…. THIS was called Liberation. Today we have thousands and thousands of Africans, mostly young healthy men, but the Europeans, or some Europeans, are telling these Africans we dont need you here,we dont want you here, so just go back to where you came from, and this is called racism…

Africans needed Europeans, but Europeans certainly do NOT need Africans unless anybody can tell me about all the things Africans have invented, discovered, or created to better the World at large, all answers can be written on the back of a Postage Stamp.

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
3 years ago

GOLDEN WORDS. “The White Man’s Burden“, Rudyard Kipling

Andrew Blackadder
Andrew Blackadder
3 years ago
Reply to  Roma Mikhasev

I dont have, nor need, any burden, just the facts mam, just the facts.

Krow361
Krow361
3 years ago

These people have a tribal mentality. When they do a capital crime then it’s time to charge the males/female in the group and when the primary defendants are found guilty then all must pay.

mjazzguitar
mjazzguitar
3 years ago
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That is why Israel demolishes the homes of the terrorists. Some call it harsh, but there has to be a price. That’s why I believe that the families of terrorists here should be deported.

mjazzguitar
mjazzguitar
3 years ago

It’s time to start suing the refugee resettlement companies when the “refugees” they dump in our towns commit crimes, for not vetting them properly.

volksnut
volksnut
3 years ago

Sure he only fired his weapon into the air – so i guess he was – MOSTLY NOT – a psychopathic jihadi. Who the fuc- is he trying to kid – you’re in combat if those around you notice you are not at least trying to kill the enemy they’re probably going to shoot you – isis got stomped – so now they’re trying to back peddle.Laughable to think what they’d be saying if this was’nt the outcome of those battles.

Andrew Blackadder
Andrew Blackadder
3 years ago

This wee nutcase called Jihad hated Jews and Israel and yet he was using Whatsapp which is an App invented by an Israel Jew in Tel Aviv and later sold to an American Jew who owns Facebook… What do you call such a person?.

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