Syrian Refugee Pleads Guilty to Plotting Terror Attack Against Pennsylvania Church
avatar By Pawel Styrna September 21, 2021 1 Comment
On September 16, Mustafa Mousab Alowemer of Pittsburgh, pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to provide material support to the Jihadist terrorist group, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). According to court documents, he planned to conduct a terrorist attack against a Pittsburgh church, the Legacy International Worship Center, in July of 2019. He got caught because the alleged ISIS supporter he was talking to for several months was actually working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
According to a Department of Justice press release, the 23-year-old Alowemer’s “stated motivation to conduct such an attack was to support the cause of ISIS and to inspire other ISIS supporters in the United States to join together and commit similar acts in the name of ISIS. Alowemer also targeted the church to ‘take revenge for our [ISIS] brothers in Nigeria.’ Alowemer was aware that numerous people in the proximity of the church could be killed by the explosion.”
Adams Daily Voice offers more background, stating that the aspiring terrorist “graduated from Brashear High School, an English as Second Language school within the Pittsburgh Public School District” and “pledged his allegiance to leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and started planning an attack on one of several locations around Pittsburgh, a Shia mosque and US servicemen before choosing the non-denominational Christian Legacy International Worship Center.”
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