Indictment: Bosnian immigrants plotted over Facebook
Source: AP
CHICAGO (AP) Six Bosnian immigrants accused of sending money and military equipment to extremist groups in Syria used Facebook, PayPal and other readily available services to communicate and transfer funds, according to a federal indictment.
All are charged with conspiring to provide and providing material support to groups designated by the U.S. as foreign terrorist organizations, including the Islamic State group and an al-Qaida-affiliated rebel group known as the Nusra Front.
The indictment unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis alleges they plotted by phone, Facebook and email; shared videos and photos related to their plans on social media sites; sent money via PayPal and Western Union; and shipped boxes of military gear through the U.S. Postal Service.
The defendants are accused of donating money themselves and, in some cases, collecting funds from others in the U.S. and sending the donations overseas. It says two of the defendants, a husband and wife in St. Louis, used some of the money to buy U.S. military uniforms, firearms accessories, tactical gear and other equipment from local businesses and ship it to intermediaries in Turkey and Saudi Arabia who forwarded the supplies to fighters in Syria and Iraq.
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kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)themselves. But, because many other immigrants have white skin, they find it very easy to come here, get help, and set up their organized criminal enterprises without much notice and certainly without media coverage. In this area of Maryland it's almost like the Russians have invaded. They don't speak much English and no one gets angry but let Hispanic speak his native tongue and eyes roll and looks of disgust show on faces. Even the immigrants from Serbia, Russia, and other places have the nerve to discriminate against Hispanics and native born blacks. A huge Russian network of jewelry thieves was finally caught after years of robbing wealthy neighborhoods in the area. The newspapers hardly printed anything about the robberies but if there was a purse snatching at a bus stop it made the nightly news. There are lots of organized crime gangs in the US but you will only read or hear about the blacks and Hispanic gangs as they fight each other.
SunSeeker
(51,646 posts)We bombed the shit out of Serbia on Bosnia's behalf and got them out from under the yoke of Milosevic. Which of course resulted in ethnic Serbs being ethnically cleansed out of Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. We should have stayed the fuck out of that civil war. All sides were dirty.