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Home Front: WoT
US Air Force veteran eyed IS service
2015-03-18
[ARABNEWS] A US Air Force veteran has been charged on two counts for trying to join 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....
forces of Evil in Syria after being sacked as a plane mechanic, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Tairod Pugh, 47, from New Jersey, traveled from Egypt to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
in January in an attempt to cross the border into Syria to join IS, but was intercepted and sent back to Egypt, prosecutors said.

After he was deported back to the US, American agents impounded his laptop and discovered he had been watching IS propaganda and browsing the Internet on how to infiltrate Syria. He was incarcerated
You have the right to remain silent...
on Jan. 16 and faces a maximum 35 years in prison if convicted of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

A federal grand jury in Brooklyn indicted him on both counts and he is scheduled to appear before a magistrate Wednesday. His attempt to join Syrian gunnies came weeks after he was sacked from his most recent job as an airplane mechanic based in the Middle East, federal prosecutors said in Brooklyn.

He served previously in the US Air Force as an instrument specialist and was trained in aircraft engine, navigation and weapons systems maintenance, the prosecutors said.

US reports said Pugh served in the US Air Force from 1986 to 1990. "Born and raised in the US, Pugh allegedly turned his back on his country and attempted to travel to Syria in order to join a terrorist organization," said US Attorney Loretta Lynch.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Full name: Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh
Posted by: trailing wife   2015-03-18 19:12  

#2  Served 4 years some 25 years ago.
Can't hold a job at 47.
Wants to go assist ISJV, hopefully in getting their air force aloft.

I say, let him go.

Must not have passed the initial screen test.

"Well, he has grown a good ball duster, but the glasses...what are those, Morpheus glasses? Say what you want about the kufir second coming of Jesus saves humanity from evil overtones of The Matrix, that was like 15 years ago. Goat balls, its so old even Shrek makes fun of it....eh, that's it, he looks like a bearded Shrek with Morpheus glasses. I have nothing to work with here, how about you muhmood, anything saving on his laptop?"

"Let's see....lot of browsing on the girl slaves, no money, parents are not rich, no goat viddies...nope, nothing here worth keeping. Next."
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-03-18 11:45  

#1  Tairod, huh? Reformed Lutheran?
Posted by: Frank G   2015-03-18 09:22  

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