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| Uzbek man in US pleads guilty in Obama murder plot |
| 2012-02-12 |
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] An Uzbek man living in the United States pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in the southern state of Alabama to planning to kill US President Barack Obama.On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today... Ulugbek Kodirov, 22, was nabbed in an undercover operation while trying to obtain explosives and guns, the US Justice Department said in a statement. US Attorney Joyce White Vance, who worked on the case, expressed "appreciation to the Mohammedan community of Birmingham, which was instrumental in helping law enforcement shut down this threat." Kodirov pleaded guilty to one count of providing material support to terrorist activity, one count of threatening to kill the president and one count of possession of a firearm by an illegal alien. As part of his plea agreement, Kodirov admitted he had communicated "with an individual whom he believed to be a member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)," and that he "interpreted these conversations to mean that he should kill President B.O.." The US State Department considers the group a terrorist organization. Kodirov also admitted to discussing with another person his desire to kill Obama and strategies for carrying out the liquidation. The other person -- who the Justice Department did not identify -- introduced Kodirov to an undercover US agent from whom the Uzbek man planned to purchase weapons. They met in July 2011 at a motel in Leeds, Alabama. The agent showed Kodirov an M15-A1 machine gun, a sniper rifle with a telescopic lens and four disassembled hand grenades. Kodirov chose the machine gun and hand grenades, but was nabbed before he could leave the motel. Kodirov entered the United States from Uzbekistan on a student visa in June 2009. His visa was revoked in 2010 when he failed to enroll in school, and he was living in an extended-stay Alabama motel when police nabbed him. Kodirov faces up to 30 years in prison on the charges. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 I'm sorry, I can't resist reposting this _again_. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-02-12 15:44 |
| #1 " ...visa was revoked in 2010 when he failed to enroll in school, and he was living in an extended-stay Alabama motel when police nabbed him." Couldn't decide between ITT and The School of Culinary Arts. Delayed his final decision pending achieving Craft Master status for his Magician on Runescape and pending completion of the next season of Game of Thrones. Decided to kill the president in his spare time. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2012-02-12 14:55 |