ISIS-Inspired Queens Women Plead Guilty to NYC Bomb Plot (Multi-Video)
At the federal courthouse in Brooklyn on Friday, Asia Siddiqui and Noelle Velentzas, both citizens of the United States and residents of Queens, pleaded guilty to teaching and distributing information pertaining to the making and use of an explosive, destructive device, and weapon of mass destruction, intending that it be used to commit a federal crime of violence.
Noelle Velentzas, 31, and Asia Siddiqui, 35 in court Friday
The guilty pleas were entered before United States District Court Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. When sentenced, the defendants face up to 20 years in prison.
“Inspired by radical Islam, Velentzas and Siddiqui researched and taught each other how to construct bombs to be used on American soil against law enforcement and military targets,” said Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers.
“They were thwarted by the excellent work of the agents, analysts and prosecutors who are responsible for this investigation and prosecution. For this, we are grateful.”
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“Velentzas and Siddiqui were intent on waging violent jihad here in the United States, researching at length historical terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, educating themselves on how to turn propane tanks into explosive devices, and dreaming up plans to kill Americans on our own turf,” said FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney Jr. on Friday.
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When the defendants were arrested, law enforcement officers seized propane gas tanks, soldering tools, car bomb instructions, jihadist literature, machetes and several knives from their residences.
The Minnesota man is a Somali presumably bringing cultural enrichment to rural Maine.
Over the years I’ve noticed the nexus between Minnesota and Maine as the Somali refugees migrate back and forth between two large Somali ‘communities.’
Remember this 2014 storyfrom RRW. It is just one example of many about the Minnesota/Maine linkage.
Police identify body found in Leeds, death now considered suspicious
LEEDS, Maine — The death of a man whose body was found along the side of the road in Leeds is now considered suspicious, according to Maine State Police.
Nadi Hagi-Mohamed, 31, of Minnesota, was identified by fingerprints and by a family member in Maine, police said.
Population 2, 324
A couple on their ATV found the man’s body along Bernie Hartford Road around 5 p.m. Saturday.
Hagi-Mohamed had recently relocated to the Lewiston-Auburn*** area from Minnesota, where he was arrested on cocaine charges in July. Detectives are now interviewing anyone who had contact with Hagi-Mohamed in the past few weeks, state police said.
An autopsy was completed Sunday by the state medical examiner, but the cause of death has not been released.
*** Learn more about how Somalis populated Lewiston, hereat RRW! It was the welfare magnet that initially brought them up from Atlanta.
