Only Sunday, as we headed out to dinner, I noted to my wife that we'd just passed a walled-off area described as an "Islamic community." My wife said it's been there for a long time. "It's a mosque," she said.
It was probably THIS guy's mosque, since we were on the outskirts of Sterling at the time. I'll post a photo of it, if I remember, the next time I'm there.
I wonder... has the story below even made the news? My wife only found out about it in a roundabout way and sent it to me. I'm thinking that journalists don't consider it newsworthy. As you can see, the article is on an obscure website.
2016-07-05
Sterling Man Charged with Aiding Islamic State
Norman K Styer
loudounnow.com
A 26-year-old Sterling man is behind bars after allegedly plotting a mass casualty attack with an assault rifle and providing other support to the Islamic State.
According to the federal complaint, Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former member of the Army National Guard, was arrested Sunday.
Jalloh is alleged to have attempted to assist in the procurement of weapons to be used in what he believed was going to be an attack on U.S. soil committed in the name of ISIS. Investigators also say he provided money to help individuals seeking to join ISIS.
According to court documents and court proceedings, in March, a now-deceased member of the so-called Islamic State brokered an introduction between Jalloh and an individual in the U.S. who was working with the FBI as confidential source. The ISIS member was plotting an attack in the U.S. and believed the attack would be carried out with the assistance of Jalloh and the confidential source.
Jalloh allegedly met with the FBI source in April and May. During the April meeting, Jalloh told the source that he was a former member of the Virginia Army National Guard, but that he had decided to quit after listening to online lectures by Anwar al-Aulaqi, a deceased leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Jalloh stated that he recently had taken a six-month trip to Africa, where he had met with ISIS members in Nigeria and began communicating online with the ISIS member who later brokered his introduction to the FBI source.
During their meeting, Jalloh also told the source that he often thought about conducting an attack and that he knew how to shoot guns. Jalloh praised the gunman who killed five U.S. military members in a terrorist attack in Chattanooga, TN, in July 2015, and stated that he had been thinking about conducting an attack similar to the November 2009 attack at Ft. Hood, TX.
During the May meeting, Jalloh asked the source about the timeline for an operation and commented that it was better to plan an operation for the month of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month currently being observed. Jalloh also asked whether the source could assist him in providing a donation to ISIS. Ultimately, Jalloh provided a prepaid cash transfer of $500 to a contact of the FBI source that Jalloh believed was a member of ISIS, but who was in fact an undercover FBI employee.
In June, Jalloh travelled to North Carolina and made multiple unsuccessful attempts to obtain firearms. On July 2, Jalloh went to a gun dealership in Northern Virginia, where he purchased and test-fired a Stag Arms assault rifle. Unbeknownst to Jalloh, the rifle was rendered inoperable before he left the dealership with the weapon. He was arrested the following day and the FBI seized the rifle.
If convicted on the charges, Jalloh faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
http://loudounnow.com/2016/07/05/sterling-man-charged-with-aiding-islamic-state/
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