A Pennsylvania teenager who had more than 50 pro-ISIS Twitter accounts and threatened to behead US President Barack Obama inside the White House has been arrested by the FBI.
Jalil Ibn Ameer Aziz, 19, from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was arrested after federal anti-terror agents raided the $122,000 three-bedroom home he shares with his parents after tracking down the IP address used on his allegedly pro-terror Twitter accounts.
According to documents lodged at the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Aziz ‘espouses violent jihadist beliefs and is a fervent supporter of a foreign terrorist organisation known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’.
Aziz is accused of conspiring with others to travel to Syria to fight with ISIS, while trying to radicalise and recruit others to his cause.
During a raid at his home on November 27, officers recovered ‘a tactical-style backpack’ in his closet. The bag contained ‘five M4-style high-capacity magazines loaded with 5.56 ammunition, a modified kitchen knife with the handle removed’.
He also had a balaclava of a ‘similar style worn by ISIS members to hide their identities’.
According to the affidavit Aziz pledged allegiance online to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of ISIS.
On January 29, using his @Colonel_Shami alias he allegedly tweeted: ‘#IS Know O Obama, that we are coming to America and know that we will sever your head in the White House’.
Instead of addressing the fact that ISIS is now present in the state of Pennsylvania, Mayor of Harrisburg Eric Papenfuse went for gun control. How predictable. He didn’t address weeding out ISIS terrorists who are coming after Americans. No, he pushed for stripping us of our most effective means of protection. I’m glad the FBI caught this guy, but the authorities using this as an excuse to go after guns is just reprehensible. Every time something like this happens, it just makes Trump more popular and makes him seem more right. This kid was living with his parents and carrying out Jihad. He was a facilitator for terrorists traveling back and forth from the Middle East to the US and he evidently had violent plans laid out against our military and politicians. These are the terrorists among us now. Taking our guns away will simply leave us at their mercy. Officials should concentrate more on the Islamist problem and less on taking away constitutional rights.