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FBI: Aurora man, 18, tried to join group linked to al-Qaida |
2013-04-21 |
[SUNTIMES] An 18-year-old from Aurora who was incarceratedI ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! at O'Hare Airport planned to travel to war-torn Syria and hoped to join a "jihadist bad boy" group tied to al-Qaeda, federal authorities said Saturday. Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, who was linked to a man charged with trying to bomb a reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... bar last year, was arrested before boarding the plane. Tounisi, a U.S. citizen, was taken into custody without incident late Friday by the Chicago FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. He had gone through airport security, headed for a flight to Istanbul, Turkey, according to the FBI, which said Tounisi hoped to join Jabhat al-Nusrah, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group fighting Syrian ![]() Pencilneckal-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's regime in a civil war. Tounisi was charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. |
Posted by:Fred |
#1 An uptick in FBI interest in jihadists, followed by incarcerations? How interesting. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2013-04-21 12:38 |