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| FBI arrests Milwaukee man accused of planning mass shooting at Masonic temple | |
| 2016-01-27 | |
| [FOX6NOW] FBI officials announced on Tuesday, January 26th that Milwaukee resident Samy Mohammed Hamzeh, 23, has been charged with possessing machine guns and a silencer. According to the criminal complaint, Hamzeh had been under investigation since September 2015. The investigation revealed that, in October 2015, Hamzeh planned to travel to Jordan, enter the West Bank, and conduct an attack on Israeli soldiers and citizens living in the West Bank. Hamzeh later abandoned those plans and began to focus on conducting an attack in the United States. According to the criminal complaint, Hamzeh has engaged in extensive conversations with two confidential sources (referred to here as CS-1 and CS-2). Those conversations, which were in Arabic, were monitored, recorded, and translated by the FBI beginning in October 2015. During those recorded conversations, Hamzeh explained that he wanted to commit a domestic act of violence and, earlier this month, he settled on a Masonic temple in Milwaukee as his target. On January 19, 2016, Hamzeh, CS-1 and CS-2 took a guided tour of the Masonic temple, during which they learned meeting schedules and where people would be located during meetings. In a recorded conversation after they left the temple, Hamzeh, discussed his plans with CS-1 and CS-2. In that conversation, Hamzeh reaffirmed his intention to commit an armed attack on the temple and discussed in further detail how they would carry out the attack. Hamzeh said that they would need two machine guns so that they each would have one (Hamzeh indicated that one CS already had a machine gun), and also said that they would need three silencers: "We want two machine guns, you now have one, so we want two more, and we need three silencers, that's it. Find out how much all together these will cost, and then we will march." "We want two, like the machine gun you have. . . . And we need silencers. . . . Three, yes three silencers, and that's it." ". . . each one has a weapon, each one has a silencer gun, the operation will be one hundred percent successful.
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| Posted by:Fred |
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| Posted by: 3dc 2016-01-27 16:12 |
| #8 He was just misunderstood. Probably looking for answers. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2016-01-27 15:16 |
| #7 "What part of suicide mission didn't this guy understand?" Apparently all of it, Sven. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2016-01-27 14:07 |
| #6 Silencers huh? What part of suicide mission didn't this guy understand? |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2016-01-27 13:58 |
| #5 "Freemasonry respects the sincere and non-violent religious beliefs of all." I can see why Mo-ham-head was upset with them, then, BU #3. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2016-01-27 13:54 |
| #4 It was the all-seeing eye on the reverse of the $ that pushed him over the edge. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-01-27 13:45 |
| #3 Idiot. Freemasonry respects the sincere and non-violent religious beliefs of all. |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2016-01-27 12:27 |
| #2 Because Shriner's in clown costumes driving little cars bother him? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2016-01-27 07:20 |
| #1 So Domestic Jihadi Terrorist wannabes want to bomb Pennsylvania + Milwaukee. OH THE NOT-A-HUGE-MANATEE IRONY! YOOHOO, FBI-CIA + US ARMY WAR COLLEGE TALK ABOUT CHICKENS COMING BACK HOME TO ROOST! I TRULY DON'T KNOW WHETHER TO LAUGH, OR LAUGH! FTLG don't force me to send Kimberly over there! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-01-27 01:11 |