|
2015-04-05 Home Front: WoT
|
|
Islamist terror cases claim women wanted to fight, not wed fighters
|
[IsraelTimes] Noelle Velentzas, Asia Siddiqui said they were ‘citizens of the Islamic State,’ were arrested in Queens with gas tanks, bomb-making manuals
Two women accused in New York City's latest homegrown terrorism case may be part of what some experts say is an evolving threat -- a greater willingness by women to shed blood in the name of turban Islamic jihad.
The pair allegedly wanted to "make history" on their own by building a bomb and attacking a domestic target.
While past cases often involved women answering the call by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group on social media to join the cause as nurses or wives, "the idea that they want to fight is more a noticeable new trend," said Karen Greenberg, director of Fordham Law School's Center on National Security.
The sometimes boastful and profane language one of the New York women was quoted as using in the criminal complaint -- "Why can't we be some real bad b----s?" -- bolstered the idea that the defendants weren't candidates for nonmilitary roles in a self-proclaimed caliphate.
The two U.S. citizens "were determined to play an essentially military role, so that's different," said Jessica Stern, who was on the National Security Council staff during the Clinton administration and lectures on terrorism at Harvard University. "In that way, they were typical Americans. They're sort of between these two cultures with a kind of amorphous identity."
Another expert, Mia Bloom, a professor at the University of Massachusetts and the author of "Bombshell: Women and Terrorism," disagreed with the conclusion that more women are now participating in global terrorism, citing large percentages of women among gunnies in Chechnya and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
. In Nigeria, the Islamic turban group Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
has begun using teenage girls and young women for suicide kabooms in marketplaces, bus stations and other busy areas.
Bloom also said the evidence shows the American women charged this week were probably aligned more with al-Qaeda than with the Islamic State group, and that the threat was overblown.
"These are wannabe jihads that sort of have this, at least in their head, projection of importance of significance," she said. "They want to build a bomb but they don't know how to do it."
Noelle Velentzas and Asia Siddiqui were arrested at their Queens homes early Thursday following a sting operation using an undercover officer. Officers searching the homes recovered items including three gas tanks, a pressure cooker, handwritten notes on the recipes for bomb making and jihadist literature, court papers say.
Velentzas had been "obsessed with pressure cookers since the Boston Marathon attacks in 2013," and was caught on recordings saying she and Siddiqui were "citizens of the Islamic State," also known as ISIS, the papers say.
The complaint suggests the women were initially radicalized by al-Qaeda literature. But it also refers to them watching a video of "in which pro-ISIS French imported muscle urged others to leave their countries to try to fight with ISIS," and looked at a photo of "ISIS blowing up a gas pipe between Egypt and Israel."
Authorities said Friday that Valentzas, 27, was believed to have been born in Florida of Greek ethnicity and claimed to have worked as a home health aide. Siddiqui, 31, was born in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and was unemployed.
Siddiqui's lawyer, Thomas F.X. Dunn, declined to talk about the allegations on Friday, saying only that he plans to "mount a vigorous defense." In a statement, Velentzas' lawyer called his client "a loving mother and wife who is innocent of the sensationalistic charges manufactured by the U.S. government."
Authorities declined to confirm whether the undercover officer was a woman. Past cases have relied on male New York Police Department recruits -- typically with Moslem or Arab backgrounds -- who agreed to skip the police academy and enter a NYPD counterterrorism program that grooms and deploys young undercover officers to expose potential plots. 
|
Posted by trailing wife 2015-04-05 00:00||
||
Front Page|| [6 views ]
Top
File under: Islamic State
|
|
00:28 Angealing+B.+Hayes4677
|
