Trial set to begin for man linked to failed attack on Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland

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Trial set to begin for man linked to failed attack on Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland

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PHOENIX — Halfway through 2014, three Arizona men were falling under the sway of the Islamic State group, authorities say.

The trio watched videos depicting violence by jihadists, tried to get pipe bombs, planned an attack at a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas last year and researched travel to the Middle East so they could join Islamic State fighters, investigators say.

Two of the men brought semiautomatic rifles and an Islamic State flag to the May 3 contest featuring cartoons deemed offensive to Muslims and died in a shootout with police before hurting anyone attending the event in suburban Dallas.

The third man goes on trial Tuesday in Phoenix in what is believed to be the first time the U.S. government has put a person on trial on terror charges related to the militant group.

Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, a 44-year-old moving company owner, is accused of hosting the two gunmen at his home to discuss plans for the attack, going target shooting in the remote Arizona desert with the pair and providing the guns used at the contest.

Prosecutors say Kareem also encouraged Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi to carry out violence in the United States in support of the Islamic State group and inquired about explosives to blow up a stadium in metro Phoenix during the 2015 Super Bowl.

Kareem denies the allegations.

It’s unknown whether the thwarted Texas attack was inspired by the Islamic State or carried out in response to an order from the group.

Prosecutors paint a picture of three men being influenced by the group, which has amassed thousands of fighters around the globe and taken control of parts of Syria and Iraq while carrying out beheadings, mass shootings and other violence.

Six weeks before the cartoon contest, Simpson accessed an Islamic State list of residential addresses of U.S. military service members whom the group wanted attacked. Simpson and Soofi also drove to Yuma and elsewhere in Arizona near military installations after having discussed plans to attack a base.

FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers in December that one of the attackers exchanged more than 100 messages with an overseas terrorist in the days before the attack in Garland, Texas. Kareem’s indictment says Simpson used social media to communicate with Islamic State extremists and other violent jihadists.

The U.S. Justice Department didn’t respond to questions about the case.

“I believe the shooters were motivated by what they thought was the Islamic State, but I’m not sure they were directed by the Islamic State,” said Scott Stewart, a vice president for the Texas-based global intelligence company Stratfor and a former U.S. State Department investigator who examined the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

The U.S. government has charged 78 people with crimes related to the Islamic State group since March 2014, said Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Fordham Law School’s Center on National Security, which tracks terrorism cases. While 24 people charged with crimes related to the radical group have pleaded guilty, no one has yet gone to trial on such charges.

Kareem and his lawyer, Daniel Maynard, declined requests for an interview. Maynard has previously said the case was trumped up and based largely on the work on an unreliable confidential informant.

Two days after the Texas attack, Kareem went to the FBI’s office in Phoenix for an interview with investigators in which he denied any involvement. He was arrested five weeks later.

James Newman, Kareem’s younger brother, told The Associated Press that his brother never expressed a radical political or religious view to him and is a victim of guilt by association with the two Muslims who carried out the attack. He vehemently rejects the government’s portrayal of his brother as a supporter of terrorists.

Newman said Kareem was a Muslim throughout his adulthood, but his faith deepened over the last five years after he was jailed on a drunken driving conviction. He used his religion as a way to cope with his longtime struggle with alcohol. He abandoned his birth name of Decarus Lowell Thomas and legally became Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem in 2013.:p

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Kareem, sporting a shaggy salt-and-pepper beard and bound by handcuffs and a belly chain, has remained silent through his latest court hearings. Six deputy U.S. marshals stood watch in the courtroom during a late December hearing. He faces charges including conspiracy and conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

Authorities say they first interviewed Kareem in a terrorism investigation in late 2011 and later searched his apartment when one of his roommates tried to get a fraudulent Arizona State University degree :p

During the apartment search, authorities say they found al-Qaida promotional materials on Kareem’s laptop and an attached flash drive. Kareem has denied the flash drive was his. His lawyer unsuccessfully tried to bar prosecutors from using the promotional materials as evidence at trial

Decarus dun dis heah

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Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem update: Man convicted of helping plot
11:50 AM, Feb 8, 2017

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PHOENIX -
An American-born Muslim convert convicted of supporting the Islamic State group and helping to plot a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Prosecutors were seeking a life sentence for Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, while his defense attorney asked for less than six years of prison time.

Authorities say Kareem, the owner of a moving company in Phoenix, provided the guns that two friends used to open fire outside the anti-Islam event in suburban Dallas and hosted the two Islamic State followers at his home to discuss the upcoming attack.

His friends, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, were killed in a police shootout outside the contest in Garland. A security guard was wounded, but no one else was injured. The contest featured cartoons that are offensive to Muslims.
 
FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers in December that one of the attackers exchanged more than 100 messages with an overseas terrorist in the days before the attack in Garland, Texas. Kareem’s indictment says Simpson used social media to communicate with Islamic State extremists and other violent jihadists.

The U.S. Justice Department didn’t respond to questions about the case.


How convenient!

FBI COMEY, DOJ, and "NEWS" forgot to tell people about this guy, same guy who terrorized Ben Garrison, the cartoonist, nearly getting him killed.
The big giant head, Greenblatt, also forgot to mention this spineless Jewish terrorist.

At the Capitol Riot, False Flag, I'd pointed out a few of the rioters having similar greasy faces with stringy hair and sparse beards.

If you study this Wikipedia bio on the Goldberg guy, then it's easy to recognize online Jewish subversion & grooming what they know to be weak minded subhumans, easily incited to violence to create terrorist acts, especially in online comments by one person working under various personas operating dozens of sockpuppet accounts.

Arab Spring, same group of (((people))) did that on Twitter.
And then, new laws are enacted.

Joshua Ryne Goldberg SHORT EXCERPTS


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Goldberg is Jewish.[18][19][20] He lived with his parents in Orange Park, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville.[21]
Online activities

Goldberg made online posts under a number of different pen names.[7] He spent 14 to 20 hours on the internet per day.[22]


Australi Witness, the OVERSEAS TERRORIST!

Australi Witness was an online persona, claiming to be an ISIS-affiliated jihadist from Australia, who was described by [IRAQI JEWESS CNN news leaker ] Rita Katz, [ISRAELI] executive director of Maryland's SITE Intelligence Group, as holding a "prestigious position" in online jihadi circles.[6]



Australi Witness urged an attack on the Draw Muhammad Contest being held at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, on May 3, 2015, suggesting that "brothers in Texas" to go there "with your weapons, bombs or with knifes [sic]" to "defend your Prophet".[23] The persona also posted maps to the event. Subsequently, two men, identified as Phoenix, Arizona, residents Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, were shot dead by police as they attempted to attack the contest. The FBI found that Simpson retweeted a message from the Australi Witness Twitter handle on the morning of the attack.[18][19] Australi Witness claimed credit for having inspired the attack to multiple media outlets,[7][8][9] praised Simpson and Soofi as martyrs,[24] and expressed support for the attack in an interview with Fairfax Media.[6]

Australi Witness
posted a 50-page guide online on how to join the terror group ISIS,[25] and later posted a list of synagogues in Australia, ostensibly to encourage his supporters to attack them.[12] He communicated that he was planning an attack in Melbourne to an FBI informant, who posed as a jihadist,[26] and a 17-year-old who pleaded guilty to planning a Mother’s Day 2015 bombing in Melbourne using pressure cooker and pipe bombs, which was never carried out, was found to have been in contact with Goldberg.[11]
According to the FBI, Australi Witness posted to an ISIS-related website that he had recruited two people, one in Los Angeles, the other in Melbourne, to "using guns, shoot up local synagogues when the maximum amount of Jews are praying", stating that "the entire thing was my idea, and I helped them every step of the way".[8]

"Michael Slay"

Goldberg posted on the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer as "Michael Slay".
One well-known article by this persona regarding how to recruit people from Reddit (particularly the "r/conspiracy" and "r/Europe" subreddits), described as "fertile ground for recruitment" was commented on by Sam Biddle in a Gawker article.[35]
Upon his arrest and unveiling, the administrator of the site removed his posts.[29][36]
He used this persona to criticize Mariam Veiszadeh, writing more than one Daily Stormer article about her.


There's a LOT more at the Wiki
 

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