(CNN) — A man who owns an upstate New York food store funded ISIS, tried to send jihadists to Syria to fight with the terrorist group and plotted to do some killing himself — by gunning down U.S. troops who had served in Iraq — federal authorities alleged Tuesday.
Mufid A. Elfgeeh, 30, was arrested on May 31, though federal officials didn’t outline the case against him until Tuesday. According to an indictment, he faces three counts of trying “to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization” (namely, ISIS), one count of attempting to kill officers and employees of the United States, two counts of having an unregistered firearm silencer and one for possessing guns or silencers “in furtherance of a crime of violence.”
The public defender representing Elfgeeh, Mark Hosken, said Tuesday that he had seen the indictment and will enter a plea of not guilty when his client appears in court on Thursday morning.
The federal investigation into Elfgeeh began in early 2013 and a world away from the Middle East, where ISIS (also known as ISIL and the Islamic State) has waged a brutal campaign in recent years. Citing the terror group’s threat to the region and gruesome tactics — such as the recent beheadings of two American journalists — the U.S. government has struck ISIS targets from the air in Iraq and threatened to go after it in Syria as well.
A look at Twitter suggests that Elfgeeh didn’t stand with his adopted country in this fight, according to an affidavit in support of a search warrant in his case.
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You refer to the Islamic State, as a terror group, i doubt there will be any corroborating accounts from muslims that are not under the influence of the West.
I recall the Muslim Times, and it never pandered to the transparent hypocrisy of The Satanic realm of Britain or US, so why do you regurgitate their propganda of ‘terror groups’ or ‘jihadists.
Its appaling that the only papers that will speak out are ones that uphold the notion that Muslims should just lie down and die, and if any human, muslim, should have the audacity to defy their claim over Islam’s lands, where Islam’s rulings are upheld, than of course we’re monsters right?
I dont care how many videos they put up about The Islamic State, just as they did about the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden, which were nothing less than a colossal smear upon the characters of men, like Saddam Hussain, there are no WMD’s til today, and they never caught and killed Osama Bin Laden, and yet for all their lies, you wont call a pot a pot and a kettle a kettle.
I was for the Muslim Times i once knew, not whilst you condone the Tyrants and vilify normal people who are willing to fight for what they believe in.
Question: When a true Muslim stands up and fights for himself and his brother what do the governments of the West term him as?