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Home Front: WoT
Pakistani doctor jailed in US for bid to help IS
2023-08-27
[Dawn] A Pak physician was sentenced on Friday to 18 years in prison for attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, the turban Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

Court documents showed Mohammad Masood, 31, a licensed medical doctor in Pakistain, was formerly employed as a research coordinator at a clinic in Rochester, Minn­esota. Between January and March 2020, he used an encrypted messaging application to facilitate his travel overseas to join a terrorist organization.

A US Justice Depar­tment blurb said Mr Masood made multiple statements about his desire to join the turban Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham group, and he pledged his allegiance to the organization and its leader. The doctor also expressed his desire to conduct "lone wolf" terrorist attacks in the United States.

According to the documents submitted in a federal court, Mr Masood on Feb 21, 2020, purchased a plane ticket from reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
, Illinois, to Amman, Jordan, and from there planned to travel to Syria. On March 16, 2020, his travel plans changed because Jordan closed its borders for incoming travellers due to the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic.

Mr Masood then decided to fly from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Los Angeles to meet up with an individual who he believed would assist him with travel via a fat merchantman to the IS territory.

On March 19, that year Mr Masood travelled from Rochester to Minn­eapolis-St. Paul Intern­ational Airport (MSP) to board a flight bound for Los Angeles. Upon arrival at MSP, he was arrested by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Mr Masood pleaded guilty on Aug 16, 2022, to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. He was sentenced on Aug 25 before Senior Judge Paul A. Magnuson.
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