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Eugene

(61,937 posts) Sat Feb 7, 2015, 08:30 AM Feb 2015

U.S. charges six with supporting Islamic militant groups: Justice Department

Source: Reuters

U.S. charges six with supporting Islamic militant groups: Justice Department

Fri Feb 6, 2015 11:25pm EST

(Reuters) - Six people have been charged with providing money and equipment including U.S. military uniforms to foreign fighters joining al Qaeda, Nusra Front and Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday.

The six are Bosnian natives living in Missouri, Illinois and New York. Five of them were arrested in the United States and charged with conspiring to provide material support and resources to terrorists. The sixth person is overseas, the department said in a statement.

Members of the group conspired to provide money and equipment - including U.S. military uniforms, combat boots, tactical gear, military surplus goods and firearms accessories - to be used to commit crimes outside the United States, according to a federal grand jury indictment made public by the Justice Department.

It said people in Turkey and Saudi Arabia acted as intermediaries who received the money and property from the defendants in the United States and transferred them to militants fighting with groups in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere.

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Bosnians......interesting Historic NY Feb 2015 #1

Historic NY

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1. Bosnians......interesting

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Sat Feb 7, 2015, 11:53 AM

Feb 2015

makes one wonder whether they came here to escape war or to just have another base of operations to carry on Jihad.

The follwoing has much more information on them.

<Pazara boasted in March 2014 that he’d just returned from a mission where fighters killed 11 people and captured one, whom they intended to “slaughter” the next day, the indictment says. Pazara was killed while fighting in Syria, according to news reports.

He was among an estimated 50 to 330 fighters from Bosnia who traveled to fight in Syria since mid-2012, according to a June report from the Counter Terrorism Center at West Point.

Rosic tried to board a Norwegian Airlines flight in July, intending to travel to Syria to fight, the indictment says.

All six of those charged are natives of Bosnia who immigrated to the United States, prosecutors said. Three have become naturalized citizens and the rest either have refugee or legal resident status, they said.>

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/three-from-st-louis-county-among-those-accused-of-supporting/article_f9f26fa0-9564-5ff8-9e0d-341703fe9e22.html

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