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| Islamic State woman found guilty of terror crimes in Canada |
| 2019-01-18 |
| [PULSE.NG] A Canadian jury found a woman guilty Thursday of terror crimes for trying to join 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.... group and in its name attacking staff at a Toronto-area department store two years ago. Rehab Dughmosh, who was tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in June 2017 when she was 32, was found guilty of four counts of leaving the country for the purpose of joining a terror group, assaults with a golf club and a butcher knife, and carrying an archery bow. According to court documents cited by Canadian media, she attempted to fly to Syria in April 2016 to join the IS group, and when that failed returned home and plotted the mall attack. Her plans to go to Syria were thwarted by The court heard that Dughmosh admitted to pledging her allegiance to the Islamic State group, and on the day in question packed bags with weapons, including a hammer, barbecue skewers, straws tipped with screws and a child's shovel made into claws. She also hid the knife and bow in her robe. But on her way out of her apartment she ran into her estranged husband, who confiscated the bags. He reportedly did not know about the concealed weapons. At the Canadian Tire store east of Toronto, Dughmosh grabbed a golf club off a rack after trying unsuccessfully to access arrows in a locked display case. She then draped herself in a homemade IS banner, tied an IS bandana around her head and charged staff with the golf club and butcher knife, shouting: "This is for ISIS." Staff wrestled her to the ground. Nobody was maimed. Police later found the weapons cache at her home, along with a cellphone containing IS propaganda videos and a handwritten will in which she asked for martyrdom. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Monday. The prosecution is seeking eight years in prison. |
| Posted by:Fred |