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| Philadelphia Woman Charged on Syria Terror Link | |
| 2015-04-04 | |
| [AnNahar] A 30-year-old woman from Philadelphia was charged Friday with attempting to join Lions of Islam in Syria, the second Syria-linked terror case involving U.S. women announced by prosecutors in days. Keonna Thomas, 30, was charged with attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization after allegedly posting more than a year of tweets in support of 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group. If convicted, she faces up to 15 years in prison. After posting the stream of alarming tweets from August 2013 to December 2014, she applied for a U.S. passport and intended to travel to Syria through Spain and ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , prosecutors said. Having applied for the passport in February, she emailed a radical holy man in Jamaica saying she had deactivated her Twitter account until leaving for Syria to avoid attention, they added. Among her disturbing tweets was one last December. Next to the picture of an armed child she wrote: "I wouldn't be pleased till I became soldier of the Islamic State." Under FBI surveillance, she allegedly emailed an IS holy warrior based in the group's stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria. In February she allegedly wrote to him that it "would be amazing" to carry out a suicide kaboom, adding that "a girl can only wish," court papers show. She allegedly bought a visa for Turkey and searched the Internet for indirect travel routes to the country, the most common transit point into Syria for Western recruits to IS. Prosecutors say she bought an airline ticket from Philadelphia to Barcelona intending to fly on March 29. U.S. intelligence officials warned in February that more than 20,000 volunteers from around the world, including more than 150 Americans, had gone to Syria to link up with holy warriors.
...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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... fighter in Syria, who asked her whether she wanted to take part in what was termed a martyrdom operation, to which she responded: "that would be amazing... a girl can only wish." | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 I agree with Frank G. Why should we pick up the tab to prevent them going? Do we want to keep them here? |
| Posted by: irishrageboy 2015-04-04 17:01 |
| #3 nope. I suspect her life would be short, nasty, and brutish. And deserved |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-04-04 11:17 |
| #2 You think Lions of Islam will be interested in 30-year-old, Frank G? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-04-04 08:20 |
| #1 pull her passport and citizenship, and ship her over there. If she wants to be an IS whore, let her. Don't let her come back |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-04-04 08:02 |