A New York man was indicted last night for helping ISIS, the terrorist army President Obama has pledged to “degrade” and “destroy.”
“Federal prosecutors Tuesday charged a Rochester, New York man with trying to recruit people to join the ISIS terror group overseas and to shoot people in the United States, including Shia Muslims and American military personnel returning from the Middle East,” NBC reports.
“Court documents say Mufid A. Elfgeeh, a 30-year-old naturalized citizen from Yemen, was arrested in May after he tried to buy two handguns with silencers from someone who turned out to be an undercover informant working with the FBI.”
The feds “say he tried to persuade that undercover operative — plus another undercover source cooperating with the FBI and a third person in Yemen — to go to Syria ‘and fight on behalf of ISIS.'”
House Homeland Security chair Rep. Michael McCaul mentions this indictment in a hearing today on Capitol Hill.
“The ideological struggle against Violent Islamist Extremism is taking place not just overseas, but also here at home. There have been more than 70 homegrown violent jihadist plots or attacks in the United States since 9/11, according to the Congressional Research Service. More than two-thirds of them have been uncovered or have taken place in only the past five years. Many of the suspects were radicalized at least in part by online Islamist propaganda, including the Boston Marathon bombers and the Fort Hood attackers, a tool ISIS excels at utilizing,” said McCaul.
“Additionally, last night federal authorities indicted a U.S. citizen from Rochester, NY for raising money, recruiting and facilitating travel for ISIS.”
