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Another Muslim Convert Caught in Terror Plot, to Bomb US Capitol
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On January 14, 2015 @ 10:33 pm In The Point | 5 Comments
I know. I know. Nothing to do with Islam.
This isn’t about race. We’re talking about a white kid who starts reading the Koran and plotting to murder Americans. Swap out the Koran for Das Kapital and you’ve got Lee Harvey Oswald. This should be familiar history to us.
Christopher Lee Cornell, 20, of Green Township, near Cincinnati, was arrested after he bought two M-15 semi-automatic rifles and about 600 rounds of ammunition as the undercover operative watched, according to an FBI affidavit.
Officials said Cornell never bought any components for pipe bombs. “There was never a danger to the public,” an official told NBC News.
Cornell’s father, John Cornell, said the family was blindsided by the arrest.
“He never showed any signs of violence or anything,” John Cornell said of his son.
Aside from the whole Islam thing…
The FBI said the informer alerted authorities in August that Cornell — under an alias, Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah — was posting comments on Twitter in support of ISIS. Shortly after those posts began appearing, the FBI sent the operative to meet with him undercover.
During a meeting with the operative, court documents say, Cornell said he wanted “to go forward with violent jihad” and that Anwar al-Awlaki — the U.S.-born Muslim cleric who was killed by a U.S. drone in September 2011 and was the first U.S. citizen publicly known to have been added to the U.S. kill-or-capture list — and others had encouraged that kind of action.
According to the FBI, Cornell made it clear early on that he hoped to create an ISIS cell in the U.S., telling the undercover agent in a text message: “I believe we should meet up and make our own group in alliance with the Islamic State here and plan operations ourselves.”
Just more workplace violence.
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