California Terrorist pleads guilty
Pinto Nag sends us a link to an NBC article that, I guess, no one thinks significant – but a California man pleaded guilty to attempting to lend material support to terrorists. Of course, the terrorist organization was the FBI;
During the four months [Sinh Vinh Ngo Nguyen, 24] spent in Syria, Nguyen boasted over social media sites about a “confirmed kill” in his fight against President Bashar Assad’s regime, U.S. prosecutors said in a statement. When he returned to the United States, he told people he had offered to train al Qaeda forces in Syria but was rejected, the statement said.
For three months leading up to October, Nguyen met with someone he thought was an al Qaeda recruiter, according to the plea agreement, the U.S. Attorney’s office said. The recruiter said he would help Nguyen obtain a false passport so that he could travel to Pakistan and train al Qaeda forces “for a guerrilla warfare ambush attack on coalition forces” that was set to take place in December, the plea agreement said.
He was arrested when he tried to use his fake passport to go to Mexico on a bus with scores of training videos.
Category: Terror War
Save some tax dollars and shoot him in the head. He is an admitted and practicing terrorist!
Its perfect, he already has his ball-duster grown out for when he is “dancing” with Bubba.
Does anyone know why I had to go through three different media sources to find out that he was a convert to Islam? Asking for a friend.
@3 because that narrative doesn’t benefit the current administration…
I suppose I might as well ask, even though I think I know the answer—does this guy have any kind of credentials at all that would qualify him even remotely to train militants? Has he ever been a cop or served in the military? Why would al-Quaeda take him seriously?
@5 I think Al-Quaeda suffers these fools to poke a finger in the American eye. When the rubber meets the road they would cut his head off on video just for being an American.
As much as I love to see asshats like this get taken down, I’d hate to see one walk because of “entrapment”. Sometimes it seems like that line is getting very thin.
Looks Latino and sounds like a Viet Cong.
His name, Nguyen, is Vietnamese, pronounced as “Gwen”.
SFC D–true, but there are enough of these out there that the “curious” types are pretty easily dissuaded, kind of like knowing 99 percent of the teenage girls on the Internet are likely cops, or simply locking a car door keeping out all but the most dedicated/desperate thieves.
@7 SFC D –
An interesting observation about the entrapment issue, can’t say I disagree.
Still, it can be argued that Sinh Vinh Ngo Nguyen, AKA Hasan Abu Omar Ghannoum, became a loose cannon when he started tweeting about how much fun he was having with his Al Qaeda pals in Syria. All the rest of it, the ticket to Pakistan, training videos, and fake passport stuff evidently provided by the JTTF, was the cherry on top of an investigation that apparently took about six months. Then too, Nguyen’s attorney would probably have played the entrapment card by now unless there was something else going on.
What could happen next, just a rough guess, is that Nguyen has pleaded guilty to one count of “attempting” to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. What that means, at least it seems to me, is that his actual sentence on the charge, the story leaves out the max penalty element, will be dependent on to what extent he decides to roll over on whatever Al Qaeda contacts he might have. Assuming he hasn’t already.
This is not a story about a kid with topspin and a serious player. Basically, he’s a former security guard from Little Saigon in LA with evident delusions as a wannabe freedom fighter. Sinh Nguyen: Ninja Mall Cop…
Execute the bastard for treason.
Sparky & Perry, looks like we’re pretty much on the same page.
@9—That pronunciation confounded me for years, but it’s pronounced like “New Inn”, apparently. The only reason I found out was because there’s a Jesuit priest by that name at my high school, and I was there when he took his final vows as a Jesuit. That’s how the local Jesuit general pronounced it and how the other teachers refer to him, so I’m guessing that’s right. Very hard one, though.
@14 The reason I said “Gwen”, is that it is the way I heard it pronounced in Vietnam. Probably more like “Goowen”. But that’s just me and my recollections. I could be way wrong though.
1. Rope.
2. Tree (or Gallows).
3. Terrorist, wannabe or otherwise.
Some assembly required.
@14 & 15 –
The best way to explain the native pronunciation is that the NG part is pronounced with a soft G like in the word “anything” and not a hard G like in the word “grenade,” and the UYEN part is pronounced like the word “win” with everything combined becoming a single syllable word: NGWIN
If memory serves, there’s also a tonal modifier, but that’s another story.
Just in case it might seem like I’m pulling this out of mid-air, you can thank a couple of nice ao dai’d ladies at DLI for drumming it into my thick skull.
Following his sentence of six months probation, Sinh Vinh Ngo Nguyen, AKA Hasan Abu Omar Ghannoum, moves from LA to the SF Bay Area, and joins the Nancy Pelosi re-election team.
Bedwetter
@17—Thank you.