Terrorist in Rochester, NY indicted

Ex-PH2 sends us a link to MSN which reports that Mufid Elfgeeh, a 30-year-old living in Rochester, NY was arrested for attempting to give support to ISIS by a Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force;

According to court records, Elfgeeh, beginning last year, tried to help three people – two of whom were cooperating with the FBI – to travel to Syria to fight for Islamic State, a Sunni militant group that has seized large areas of Iraq and Syria.

“Elfgeeh also plotted to shoot and kill members of the United States military who had returned from Iraq,” authorities said. “As part of the plan to kill soldiers, Elfgeeh purchased two handguns equipped with firearm silencers and ammunition from a confidential source.”

The FBI made the guns inoperable before the confidential source gave them to the suspect, the Justice Department statement said, adding Elfgeeh was in custody.

We wrote about young Mufid when he was arrested in June;

According to the affidavit (.pdf) he’d been planning for a while to go on a shooting spree – actually, several shooting sprees, which is why he wanted the silencer. To get away with one and move on to the next one.

While the JTTF was observing him, he actively solicited donations for al Qaeda – the “true Muslims” – on his Twitter accounts. he advocated for violent jihad on terrorist websites, you know, especially his own violent jihad.

He also studied the jihadist murders of French soldiers in Toulouse as well as the Gothic Serpent operation in Somalia, and the mall shootings in Kenya.

Category: Terror War