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Saturday, June 8, 2019

Australia: Muslim electrician for developing weapons systems, designed missiles for the Islamic State

The judge said the father of six who designed missiles for Islamic State chose to ignore the true nature of the terrorist group’s atrocities and was not “hoodwinked.” On the contrary Judge, Haisem Zahab understood very well the true nature of the Islamic State – Islam – which is exactly why he joined the war.

A New South Wales electrician who designed missiles for Islamic State chose to ignore the true nature of the terrorist group’s atrocities and was not “hoodwinked”, a judge says.

Haisem Zahab pleaded guilty in October 2018 to knowingly providing support or resources to a terrorist organisation after working on a laser warning receiver, rockets and a rocket guidance method for IS from 2014.

The 44-year-old, from the NSW town of Young, also admitted he failed to comply with an order to help police access encrypted data on his phone and other devices.

Zahab has pleaded guilty to sending drawings and instructions to IS supporters overseas.

Zahab pleaded guilty to sending drawings and instructions to IS supporters overseas. (9News)

Justice Geoffrey Bellew today jailed Zahab for nine years with a non-parole period of six years and nine months.

Family members gasped and cried out in the NSW Supreme Court’s public gallery as the sentence was delivered.

The judge rejected Zahab’s testimony that he’d been in a cult or bubble of IS supporters – including on Twitter where he assumed the alias “Stranger” – and had divorced himself from mainstream news.

Zahab has pleaded guilty to sending drawings and instructions to IS supporters overseas.

The electrician’s work was described as sophisticated. (9News)

“His evidence essentially amounts to the proposition that he was living a hermit-like existence, cloistered in something akin to a hermetically-sealed bubble, completely removed from reality,” Justice Bellew said.

He further dismissed Zahab’s claim he genuinely believed at the time of his offending that IS was “a force of good” rather than evil and could, therefore, assist civilians in Syria fight the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

“Such a proposition, in my view, is fanciful in the extreme,” the judge said.

“The offender had become aware of the atrocities committed by IS. His level of dedication to that organisation saw him choose to ignore what had come to his attention.”

The agreed facts state Zahab researched and used 3D technology to develop the mechanical design and fabrication of a laser warning receiver to provide advanced notice of incoming laser-guided weapons.

He created a 288-page report on the receiver and sent it via secure software to a UK national in Wales who later admitted to membership of IS.

He also simulated flights of rockets with some featuring Islamic State’s black flag with white writing.

The judge said Zahab “earnestly” engaged in secretive and sophisticated nightly research for the terror group, providing “substantial and tangible” support.

“He did so with unwavering focus, at all times intent upon assisting IS in its involvement in armed and violent...

A captured ISIS fighter has revealed the terror group’s plan to send English-speaking fighters through the porous U.S.-Mexico border to attack financial institutions.

Abu Henricki, a Canadian citizen with dual citizenship with Trinidad, told the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism that the terror group asked him to travel the U.S. through Mexico in order to carry out “financial attacks.”

“They were going to move me to the Mexican side [of the US southern border] via Puerto Rico. This was mastermind[ed] by a guy in America. Where he is, I do not know,” Henricki said. “That information, the plan came from someone from the New Jersey state from America. I was going to take a boat [from Puerto Rico] into Mexico. He was going to smuggle me in.”

“What they wanted to do, basically, is they wanted to do financial attacks. Financial attacks to cripple the economy.”

“They have their system of doing it,” Henricki said. “It wasn’t me alone. They were sending you to Puerto Rico and from Puerto Rico [to Mexico].”

Fox News reports, “Henricki allegedly traveled to Syria with the intention of serving as an ISIS fighter, but was later told he could not take on soldier duties due to a chronic illness. At the end of 2016, he claimed to have been ‘invited’ by the ISIS intelligence wing – known as the emni – to join other Trinidadians and launch...

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TSA is letting illegal aliens fly on U.S. airlines WITHOUT proper documents while Americans suffer humiliating searches

After the horrific Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. homeland, Congress quickly expanded the federal law enforcement bureaucracy by creating the gigantic Department of Homeland Security and with it, a brand-new agency called the Transportation Security Administration.

Among other duties, the TSA is charged with screening passengers at U.S. airports via security checkpoints where agents force passengers to practically undress, be exposed to radiation-emitting x-ray machines, and be subjected to humiliating pat-downs in which scores of passengers have complained are too sexually exploitative.

But while American passengers are subjected to such outrages, the TSA’s parent agency, DHS, has been allowing non-citizens to board U.S. flights without proper documentation and, certainly, with far less than U.S. citizens are expected to present before boarding.

As reported by the Washington Examiner:

The federal agency tasked with overseeing security at transportation hubs has been violating its own policy by allowing migrants who have been released from federal custody onto flights despite not having required documents, according to several Department of Homeland Security officials.

For six months, the news site reported, TSA has been permitting migrants who have been released from the custody of other agencies that fall under DHS control to board planes to other parts of the United States even though the passengers did not have any of the 15 documents the agency says are the only acceptable forms of ID in order to fly.

So now, not only do illegal aliens not have to show an ID to vote in America, the don’t have to have one to get on board some flights, either.

DHS has refused to temporarily change federal policy or introduce a permanent solution since early December in order to address the problem, even as there are no indications that record apprehensions at the U.S. border, as well as mass releases of migrants, are going to abate soon.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has released more than 200,000 migrants since January who presented themselves to U.S. border agents as part of a family. They must be released under a 2015 court decision barring ICE form holding families longer than 20 days.

Often, ICE personnel drops off migrants they are releasing at bus terminals where non-governmental groups have been pre-alerted to the drop-offs and thus send...