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Burke ISIS Sympathizer Sentenced to 8-Plus Years
Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: February 18, 2017 01:04PM

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http://patch.com/virginia/burke/burke-isis-sympathizer-sentenced-8-plus-years





A Burke man was sentenced to more than eight years in prison Friday for trying to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL), according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Haris Qamar, 26, officially was sentenced to 102 months, and also received 20 years of supervised release after he leaves prison.

Also, in a related matter, Soufian Amri, 32, of Falls Church, and Michael Queen, 28, of Woodbridge, acquaintances of Qamar, were arrested Wednesday and charged with obstructing justice and conspiring to provide material false statements to law-enforcement officers who were investigating Qamar.

Officials say that on May 26, Qamar and an FBI confidential witness discussed ISIL’s need of photos of possible targets in and around D.C. for use in a video that ISIL was purportedly making to encourage lone- wolf attacks in the area.

Qamar offered the witness ideas of where to take these photographs, including the Pentagon and numerous landmarks in Arlington and D.C., which could be targeted for terrorist attacks, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

On June 3, a conversation was audio and video recorded when the witness picked up Qamar in a vehicle and they drove to area landmarks on the list Qamar had developed, the Justice Department said. Qamar allegedly said “bye bye DC, stupid ass kufar, kill’em all.” Qamar and the confidential witness met again on June 10 and drove to a location in Arlington to take additional photos for the ISIL video.

The FBI first learned of Qamar as he operated more than 60 variations of the Twitter handle “newerajihadi,” which Qamar used to express his support of ISIL and share videos and photos of extreme violence, including beheadings and mass shootings, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

For example, after terrorists murdered employees of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris in January 2015, Qamar tweeted his prayer for another similar attack with even more casualties.

According to a statement of facts, on Sept. 11, 2015, terrorists connected with ISIL posted a “kill list” to the internet containing the names and addresses of U.S. military members, and a few days later Qamar told an undercover agent that the residences of several service members who appeared on the “kill list” were near Qamar’s own home, and that Qamar had observed undercover police cars near those residences.

On Sept. 16, 2015, Qamar tweeted his prayer that Allah “give strength to the mujahideen to slaughter every single US military officer.”

Officials said Qamar told the agent he tried to join ISIL in 2014 and purchased a plane ticket from Newark, N.J. to Istanbul, Turkey. However, Qamar did not show up for the flight because his parents prevented him from going by taking his passport.

Qamar said his parents threatened to notify law enforcement and said that he fought with his father and called his father a traitor to Islam. On Nov. 18, 2015, the agent asked Qamar if his father gave him back his passport would he go and join ISIL? Qamar said if that happened, "I’m done, I leave."

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Re: Burke ISIS Sympathizer Sentenced to 8-Plus Years
Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: February 18, 2017 01:06PM

http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/man-charged-with-marking-targets-in-washington-for-islamic-state-2902505/





A Virginia man has been charged with attempting to assist the Islamic State by photographing targets in the Washington, DC area for what he thought would be a video encouraging lone-wolf terrorist attacks in the nation’s capital.

Haris Qamar, 25, of Burke is the second person this week from the northern Virginia suburbs to be charged at the federal courthouse in Alexandria with attempting to support the Islamic State.

At an initial appearance on Friday, a magistrate ordered that Qamar be held pending a detention hearing scheduled for Wednesday, and that he receive a court-appointed lawyer.

Qamar came to authorities’ attention through Twitter posts about supporting terrorist attacks that appeared under variations of the handle “newerajihadi,” court documents show.

According to an affidavit, the FBI set up a sting operation in which Qamar worked with an informant last month to film landmarks, including the Pentagon, that could be targeted for attacks.

The informant recorded Qamar saying “bye-bye DC” as he filmed the Pentagon. He went on to say that he hates the United States and gets a “burning sensation in my body because this place is so disgusting.”

Qamar told the informant that filming and photographing targets that the Islamic State could use in a video to urge lone-wolf attacks made him a true supporter of the group and more than just a “fanboy,” according to the affidavit.
Qamar is a US citizen born in Brooklyn, according to the affidavit, which also said Qamar tried to join the Islamic State in 2014 but was thwarted because his father had possession of Qamar’s passport and threatened to turn his son in to authorities if he persisted.

Travel records show that Qamar had gone as far as buying a ticket to Istanbul in that time frame, according to the affidavit. In an interview yesterday afternoon, Qamar’s father, Qamar Abbas, said he fought with his son over the passport because his son gave what Abbas considered a nonsensical explanation for wanting to travel abroad.

The son told his father that he wanted to go to medical school overseas; the father questioned why that would be the case when people come from all over the world to study medicine in the United States.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/18/2017 01:08PM by Fox News.

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Re: Burke ISIS Sympathizer Sentenced to 8-Plus Years
Posted by: Newman ()
Date: February 19, 2017 06:51PM

He sounds just like any other democrat voter. Should've given him the death sentence that he wished for Americans.

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Re: Burke ISIS Sympathizer Sentenced to 8-Plus Years
Posted by: ole Sparky ()
Date: February 19, 2017 06:55PM

It isn't enough. We are essentially at war with radical Islam, and he was going to provide support to the enemy. That's treason, and as such he deserves a traitors death.

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Re: Burke ISIS Sympathizer Sentenced to 8-Plus Years
Posted by: honestlyhonest ()
Date: February 19, 2017 07:10PM

Should've given this sand nigger the chair.

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