I wonder how often the authorities DON'T catch these guys. It's incredibly -- astoundingly -- easy for would-be terrorists to amass weapons for terrorist plots in the U.S. Semi-auto assault weapons? .50-caliber rifles? No problem. Hell, as long as they purchase from private sellers, they don't even need to go through the trouble of background checks. It's just cash-and-carry, baby! America is a jihadist's jannah.
From the article:
Ulugbek Kodirov, a 22-year-old Uzbek man who moved to the United States planning to study medicine in New York, but ended up working in a suburban Alabama mall, was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison on Friday for plotting to kill President Obama on behalf of a jihadist group in Uzbekistan.
As The Associated Press reports, Mr. Kodirov’s lawyer, Lance Bell, blamed the Internet for radicalizing the young man, who moved to Alabama after giving up on a plan to get a medical degree at Columbia University because his English was not good enough. “I’m not calling him a victim,” Mr. Bell said, “but he’s a victim to a degree of social media.”
According to the signed confession in his plea agreement, which was posted online by The Birmingham News in February, the young man hatched his plot to shoot the president after being radicalized while watching jihadist videos online. He then communicated via YouTube with someone he believed to a member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which is on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations.
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He was arrested exactly one year ago at a motel in Leeds, Ala., in possession of an automatic machine gun, a sniper rifle with a telescopic sight and four hand grenades provided to him by an undercover agent for the American government, posing as a jihadist sympathizer.
Don't ya love how he blames the internet for his almost-terror-spree? Haters, like terrorists and insurrectionist gun nuts, love to come together on social media. They aren't mainstream enough to find enough like-minded pals in real life.
To all you gunloons who oppose mandatory background checks and the terrorist watch list.... aren't you proud you support "2nd Amendment remedies" for terrorists?