Feds: Illinois Teen Sought to Join Islamic State

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The parents of Mohammed Hamzah Khan, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen from Bolingbrook, Ill., leave the Dirksen federal building Monday, Oct. 6, 2014 in Chicago. Their son, Mohammed Hamzah Khan, was was arrested Saturday at O'Hare International Airport, from where he intended to travel to Turkey so that he could sneak into Syria to join the Islamic State group, according to criminal complaint released Monday. Khan is charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. A federal judge has ordered him held until a detention hearing Thursday. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media, Al Podgorski)

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/feds-illinois-man-wanted-join-islamic-state-25996158

[spookyturtle 9,465]

Ebola

[lostinblue 1,989]

An Illinois teenager was arrested Saturday at a major airport as authorities say he was attempting to travel to the Middle East to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Mohammed Hamzah Khan, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen from Bolingbrook, appeared in court today to face charges for allegedly attempting to provide material support for a terrorist organization. If convicted, Khan could face up to 15 years in prison.

Federal authorities said Khan was arrested Saturday at Chicago’s O’Hare airport by members of the FBI’s Chicago Join Terrorism Task Force. In court today it was revealed he had purchased a ticket to Istanbul, via Vienna. Investigators allege he planned to slip through the porous Turkish border to Syria or on to Iraq.

In a criminal complaint, prosecutors said Khan had apparently penned a letter to his family, to be found in his bedroom after he left the country.

“My dear parents, there are a number of reasons I will be going to the blessed land of Shaam [syria] and leaving my home,” the letter says, according to the complaint. Among other things, the letter said, “We are all witness that the western societies are getting more immoral day by day. I do not want my kids being exposed to filth like this.”

Khan purportedly asked them not to contact the authorities and instead invited them to join him in the Middle East.

The man's parents, who were present in court, declined to comment on the case.

Top U.S. security officials have estimated that around 100 Americans have traveled to the Middle East to take part in the conflict in Syria and Iraq with various militant groups, including ISIS.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/feds-teen-arrested-ohare-wanted-join-isis/story?id=25996408

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

An Illinois teenager was arrested Saturday at a major airport as authorities say he was attempting to travel to the Middle East to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Mohammed Hamzah Khan, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen from Bolingbrook, appeared in court today to face charges for allegedly attempting to provide material support for a terrorist organization. If convicted, Khan could face up to 15 years in prison.

Federal authorities said Khan was arrested Saturday at Chicago’s O’Hare airport by members of the FBI’s Chicago Join Terrorism Task Force. In court today it was revealed he had purchased a ticket to Istanbul, via Vienna. Investigators allege he planned to slip through the porous Turkish border to Syria or on to Iraq.

In a criminal complaint, prosecutors said Khan had apparently penned a letter to his family, to be found in his bedroom after he left the country.

“My dear parents, there are a number of reasons I will be going to the blessed land of Shaam [syria] and leaving my home,” the letter says, according to the complaint. Among other things, the letter said, “We are all witness that the western societies are getting more immoral day by day. I do not want my kids being exposed to filth like this.”

Khan purportedly asked them not to contact the authorities and instead invited them to join him in the Middle East.

The man's parents, who were present in court, declined to comment on the case.

Top U.S. security officials have estimated that around 100 Americans have traveled to the Middle East to take part in the conflict in Syria and Iraq with various militant groups, including ISIS.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/feds-teen-arrested-ohare-wanted-join-isis/story?id=25996408

Help me to understand. A bunch of Islamic thugs who carry out a campaign of rape, murder and who routinely behead children, while treating their multiple wives like cattle, and who think thier reward in heavan is deflowering a bunch of virgins.... They think we are immoral. ?? Thats funny

[Robby999 1,024]

They should have confiscated his American passport, stripped him of his citizenship, and then loaded him on the plane so he could continue on to his new home! Better to have him over there without a means to return than over here plotting daily how to commit terrorist acts against the people of the United States.

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They should have confiscated his American passport, stripped him of his citizenship, and then loaded him on the plane so he could continue on to his new home! Better to have him over there without a means to return than over here plotting daily how to commit terrorist acts against the people of the United States.

Agreed.

But they need to make him do a few years in prison first. If not then he will just get kicked out of the USA and come back via Mexico.

I personally think he needs the Death Sentence

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

You think and sound a lot like the ISIS guys - everyone you have an issue with appears to be deserving of the death penalty. The ISIS freaks think and operate the same way.

[lostinblue 1,989]

You think and sound a lot like the ISIS guys - everyone you have an issue with appears to be deserving of the death penalty. The ISIS freaks think and operate the same way.

We are all witness that the western societies are getting more immoral day by day. I do not want my kids being exposed to filth like this.”

Sounds like what you spew out on here every day, You find a socialist country yet to move to ? Cuba is such a short boat ride away.

In Cuba, health care is considered a human right for all citizens; health care is therefore a national priority. Cuba's health policy emphasizes prevention, primary care, services in the community, and the active participation of citizens. These emphases have produced an impressively high ranking on major health indicators, despite economic handicaps. The Cuban experience demonstrates the influence of ideological commitment and policy-making on the provision of health care and challenges the assumption that high-quality care for all citizens requires massive financial investment. The evolution of the Cuban health care system since the revolution thus has implications for the U.S. health care system; specifically, it suggests that the equitable distribution of health care services in the United States requires a national health insurance and service delivery system.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

We are all witness that the western societies are getting more immoral day by day. I do not want my kids being exposed to filth like this.”

Sounds like what you spew out on here every day, You find a socialist country yet to move to ? Cuba is such a short boat ride away.

In Cuba, health care is considered a human right for all citizens; health care is therefore a national priority. Cuba's health policy emphasizes prevention, primary care, services in the community, and the active participation of citizens. These emphases have produced an impressively high ranking on major health indicators, despite economic handicaps. The Cuban experience demonstrates the influence of ideological commitment and policy-making on the provision of health care and challenges the assumption that high-quality care for all citizens requires massive financial investment. The evolution of the Cuban health care system since the revolution thus has implications for the U.S. health care system; specifically, it suggests that the equitable distribution of health care services in the United States requires a national health insurance and service delivery system.

How does that have anything to do with what you responded to? Right, it doesn't.

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How does that have anything to do with what you responded to? Right, it doesn't.

It was a personal attack on you, but will never get looked at by moderation because the writing is terrible and the formatting displeasing to the eye.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

It was a personal attack on you, but will never get looked at by moderation because the writing is terrible and the formatting displeasing to the eye.

It doesn't even look like an attack. More like a copy and paste job. I guess that way he can't get reported.

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Yup. I get the point of obfuscating your attack to elude the law enforcers; but what is the point of obfuscating to the point where the one you're attacking has no idea he's being attacked?

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We are all witness that the western societies are getting more immoral day by day. I do not want my kids being exposed to filth like this.

Sounds like what you spew out on here every day, You find a socialist country yet to move to ? Cuba is such a short boat ride away.

In Cuba, health care is considered a human right for all citizens; health care is therefore a national priority. Cuba's health policy emphasizes prevention, primary care, services in the community, and the active participation of citizens. These emphases have produced an impressively high ranking on major health indicators, despite economic handicaps. The Cuban experience demonstrates the influence of ideological commitment and policy-making on the provision of health care and challenges the assumption that high-quality care for all citizens requires massive financial investment. The evolution of the Cuban health care system since the revolution thus has implications for the U.S. health care system; specifically, it suggests that the equitable distribution of health care services in the United States requires a national health insurance and service delivery system.

More content from the bunker.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

It was a personal attack on you, but will never get looked at by moderation because the writing is terrible and the formatting displeasing to the eye.

Well, try as he may, lib can't attack me.

[Robby999 1,024]

The Austrian government is struggling to find a way to stop young Austrians with Middle Eastern roots from travelling to join the jihad in Syria. More than 100 have already left to fight in Syria, according to a report in Der Standard, with a 19-year old Viennese man from a Tunisian family among the latest to join the so-called Sunni caliphate of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

According to Der Standard, the young man, who is now in the Syrian city of Raqqa, was heavily influenced by an anti-Western mullah who preaches in a small mosque in Vienna's second district.

A young Austrian of Kurdish origin, also influenced by the mullah, died last year fighting with a radical Islamist group in Aleppo.

These two were far from alone in their "Kampf gegen Ungläubige," their fight against the infidels. More than 100 people have travelled from Austria to join the jihad, with half of them of Chechen background and the others of Bosnian, Turkish and Kurdish background.

Any Austrian joining a terrorist organisation is liable to prosecution and when a known jihadists return to Austria he will be questioned by authorities. However, the authorities find it difficult to prevent anyone leaving for the Middle East, because "very few make their plans to go to jihad publicly."

However, "The more advanced the plans are, the more likely a criminal prosecution is possible in order to prevent an exit."

In France, the growing number of jihadists wishing to leave has meant that Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has presented a plan to prevent potential combatants from leaving for Turkey or Syria. Germany is also thinking about tightening exit requirements, according to Der Standard.

In Austria, a tightening of the law on citizenship is planned. A statement from the Interior Ministry said: "A citizen who actively participates voluntarily for an armed group in hostilities abroad as part of an armed conflict, the citizenship shall be withdrawn if he does not become stateless."

Plans are also being drawn up to prevent minors from leaving the country without parental consent, after two girls aged 15 and 16 escaped to the Middle East. Three other young people under the age of 18 were recently stopped by authorities as they made their way from Austria through Romania to Turkey on their way to Syria. They are now back in Austria with their parents.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/07/21/Austrian-government-struggling-to-stop-young-people-leaving-for-jihad

Looks like I wasn't the only one thinking that revoking citizenship was a good idea!