[NYPost] A New Jersey man who prosecutors say was "devoted ... to waging violent mostly peaceful jihad against America" and galvanized by Hamas
 ...always the voice of sweet reason...
’ Oct. 7 attack against Israel, was busted in Kenya earlier this month while en route to join Somalia-based Islamist terror group al-Shabaab
... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...
, authorities said Friday.
Karrem Nasr, 23, of Lawrenceville, faces up to 20 years in prison after Manhattan federal prosecutors charged him with a single count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
"Nasr, a citizen of this country, traveled from Egypt to Kenya bent on joining and training with al-Shabaab [sic] so that he could execute his jihadist mission of death and destruction," US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams said Friday.
"Nasr was prepared to kill and be killed to support the jihadist cause, and in his own words, he described America as ’evil’ and the ’head of the snake,'" he added.
Nasr had moved to Egypt in July to study Arabic and became "particularly motivated to become a jihadi" after Hamas killed more than 1,200 people — including at least 33 Americans — in its October assault on southern Israel, FBI special agent Bilal Morgan wrote in court documents.
"In recent public social media posts, Nasr warned that ’Jihad’ was ’coming soon to a US location near you,’ posting airplane, bomb, and fire emojis," Morgan wrote. "Nasr expressed his intent to join al-Shabaab [sic] to receive military training and engage in jihad; that he was prepared to kill and be killed; and that he specifically aspired to be a martyr for the jihadi cause."
Nasr planned to meet members of al-Shabaab, which has links to Al Qaeda, during his Kenya trip after engaging with an FBI source posing as a controller for terrorist organizations last month.
"After the Oct. 7 events, I felt that something has changed [for] the better, I mean," Nasr reportedly told the source. "I felt that pride and dignity came back to the Moslems."
Nasr further referenced the recent online spread of the late Osama bin Laden
...... who is now sometimes referred to as Mister Bones ......
’s 2002 "Letter to America," which garnered attention among TikTok users who claimed they had never heard of Al Qaeda’s complaints about the conflict between Israel and Paleostinians.
"I do not know if you follow the news in the West, but there are a lot of people now in America, not Moslems, just reading the letter from Sheikh [Osama] bin Laden ..." Nasr told the source, according to court documents. "And there are a lot of people, because of this letter, [who] have completely changed their opinion on him, and they finally understand how evil America is."
Nasr reportedly offered to "write for any group that he joined" because he "could write well and knew how to translate," adding that he also "wanted to train to ’shoot’ with any [terror] group he joined," Morgan wrote.
The defendant originally planned to meet the jihadists in Kenya in January, but Nasr told the source he accelerated his plans after learning his mother was visiting from the US in mid-December and wanted to take him "back to America to continue my education and work."
“But Mo-o-o-om — all the kewl kids are joining jihad nowadays! You’re embarrassing me in front of my friends!” "Parents nowadays have no interest in religion and they do not want their children to be mujahideen," he told the source, noting that his mother did not know of his intentions to join al-Shabaab. "They want their children to see life, be doctors, engineers and make a lot of money."
Nasr was ultimately arrested by Kenyan authorities after his arrival in Nairobi Dec. 14, Sherlocks said.
He said he had been thinking about joining a jihadist group “for a long time” but was not able to until Oct. 7, referring to the attack as “Flood the Aqsa,” a reference to Hamas’ term for the invasion: “Operation al-Aqsa Flood.”
Nasr was born in the United States to an Egyptian family and moved to Egypt to study Arabic in July. He contacted the FBI source using an encrypted messaging app on Nov. 14, expressing his desire to join al-Shabaab for military training.
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