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Home Front: WoT
US charges Chicago man with online recruiting for Islamic State
2018-10-21
[IsraelTimes] Ashraf al-Safoo accused of disseminating ’online propaganda promoting violence’ in support of jihadi group.

A US citizen of Iraqi descent has been charged in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
with online coordination with 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadist group to recruit and encourage attacks, federal authorities said Friday.

Ashraf al-Safoo was tossed in the clink
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
Wednesday in the Midwestern city and charged with one count of conspiracy to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization.

The 34-year-old made an initial court appearance Friday and was ordered held in federal custody.

Safoo is accused of disseminating "online propaganda promoting violence in support of [IS]," Assistant Attorney General John Demers said in a statement.

The naturalized US citizen is allegedly a member of Khattab Media Foundation, an online group aligned with IS, authorities said.

He is accused of posting pro-IS "videos, articles, essays and infographics across multiple social media platforms, at the direction and in coordination with" the jihadist group, the Department of Justice said in a statement.

Much of the propaganda allegedly promoted violent jihad.

The government’s complaint made public Friday included posts Safoo is alleged to have written online calling on others to "roll up your sleeves" to create online content in support of IS.

"Participate in the war, and spread fear," Safoo is accused of writing.
The fifty-nine page crimnal complaint can be read here. The Chicago Tribune has a good deal more about the quiet immigrant family man with a masters degree in computer science who headed a full scale PR organization that employed the usual variety of specialists for the purpose of internet jihad.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  His mosque, his friends, his family?
Posted by: Woodrow   2018-10-21 05:04  

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