BRKG Two women arrested in alleged terrorist bomb plot targeting New York

[Housecarl]

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Two women arrested in alleged terrorist bomb plot targeting New York

Published April 02, 2015 · FoxNews.com

DEVELOPING: Two women suspected of being terrorist sympathizers were arrested Thursday for allegedly plotting to detonate pressure cooker bombs in New York, Fox News has learned.

An FBI spokesperson confirmed the arrests, but circumstances surrounding the arrests or the alleged plot were not immediately clear. NYPD Deputy Commissioner John Miller said the arrests were part of a local and federal investigation.

"What I can confirm is that arrests were made by the JTTF and NYPD in a national security investigation earlier this morning in New York City," he said.

The complaint, which identified the suspects as Noelle Velentzas, 28, and Asia Siddiqui, 31. The complaint said Velentzas idolized Usama Bin Laden, even keeping pictures and video of the Al Qaeda mastermind on her cell phone.

"The investigation has revealed that Velentzas espouses violent jihadist beliefs and has repeatedly expressed an interest in terrorist attacks committed within the United States," the compaint stated.

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch said the pair studied how to carry out what could have been a deadly attack.

"We are committed to doing everything in our ability to detect, disrupt and deter attacks by homegrown violent extremists," Lynch said. "As alleged, the defendants in this case carefully studied how to construct an explosive device to launch an attack on the homeland."

The pair told an undercover agent they wanted to explode pressure cooker or propane tank bombs somewhere in the city.

"Siddiqui stated that Velentzas has been obsessed with pressure cookers since the Boston Marathon attacks in 2013," stated the complaint.

It was not clear what the specific target of the alleged plotters was. Local reports said that the public was never in any danger and that the pair was arrested without incident. Both women, who could face life in prison, are due to appear at federal court in Brooklyn on Thursday afternoon.

Last week, authorities in Chicago nabbed a National Guardsman and his cousin in a terror plot that included bombing an Illinois armory, an attack law enforcement said could have killed more than 100. The Heritage Foundation reported that the Chicago plot was the 64th case of a plot to commit terrorism on U.S. soil since 9/11.

Fox News Channel's Jennifer Griffin contributed to this report.

 

[mzkitty]

Finally, a "picture" of these witches. I looked earlier in Google Images and they weren't there; however there was another female Sidiqqui (related??) who I found who went to college here and got a Ph.D. and still got thrown in prison here for like 40 years for terrorism. I guess it doesn't matter how educated they are. They're still always muzzies.

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2 Queens, New York, women accused of bombing plot appear in Brooklyn federal court, identified as 28-year-old Noelle Velentzas and 31-year-old Asia Siddiqui; Siddiqui's attorney said client plans to plead not guilty; Velentzas' attorney requested medical treatment for client - @NBCNewYork


2 Queens Women Accused of Plotting to Plant Bombs in U.S. Talked Suicide Attacks, Had Propane Tanks: Complaint

Updated 2 hours ago

Two women accused of plotting to plant bombs in the United States, one of whom allegedly called Osama bin Laden her hero and praised the World Trade Center attacks, were arrested on terror charges in Queens by the Joint Terrorism Task Force early Thursday, federal officials familiar with the investigation tell NBC 4 New York.

The women, identified in court papers as 28-year-old Noelle Velentzas and 31-year-old Asia Siddiqui, are accused of conspiring to detonate an explosive device somewhere within the United States. The two suspects allegedly discussed possible targets online but there was no specific terror plot and no active explosive device, one official familiar with the case said. The women were alleged to have met with undercover officer posing as a would-be jihadist on many occasions since 2014.

Investigators allege Siddiqui was in possession of multiple propane tanks, as well as instructions for how to transform those tanks into explosive devices, at the time of her arrest, according to a criminal complaint. Less than two weeks ago, Velentzas, asked whether she had heard the news about the recent arrest of a former U.S. airman from New Jersey who tried to travel to Syria to join ISIS, said she didn't understand why people were traveling overseas to engage in jihad when there were more opportunities of "pleasing Allah" in the U.S, according to the complaint.

Both women, U.S. citizens who were until recently roommates in a Queens apartment, appeared in Brooklyn federal court later Thursday. Siddiqui's attorney, Thomas Dunn, said earlier his client planned to plead not guilty.

"I know it's a serious case, but we're going to fight it out in court," he said.

Neither suspect had a bail package to present Thursday. Shawn Maher, the attorney for Velentzas, has requested medical treatment in prison for his client.

Siddiqui has repeatedly contacted members of al-Qaida overseas to offer her support, the complaint alleges. She also sent a letter of support to Mohammed Mohamud, the man arrested in November 2010 after trying to blow up a Christmas-tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon; the return address was linked to York College in Jamaica.

In 2006, Siddiqui allegedly became close with Samir Khan, who later moved to Yemen, became the editor of the propagandist magazine Inspire and moved up the ranks of the terror group on the Arabian Peninsula. In 2009, Siddiqui wrote a poem published in Jihad Recollections, Inspire's predecessor, that called for readers to engage in violent jihad and destroy enemies of Islam, court papers allege.

According to the complaint, she wrote that she "drop bombs" as she swings on a hammock, "taste the Truth through fists and slit throats" and that there is "[n]o excuse to sit back and wait -- for the skies to rain martyrdom."

Khan was killed in Yemen about three weeks after the 2001 World Trade Center attacks, having published articles outlining his grievances against the United States, championing himself as a "traitor" and detailing the challenges of suicide bombing, Kahn published bomb-making manuals, including an article titled "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom."

When federal investigators interviewed Siddiqui at LaGuardia Airport in July, she denied having any contact with Khan or other terrorists or terror networks. She also denied contributing to or having been published in any jihadist magazines.

Velentzas allegedly praised the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks and told the undercover officer that being a martyr through a suicide attack guarantees entrance into heaven. According to the complaint, Velentzas showed the officer her phone, which included a background picture of bin Laden holding an AK-47, and called the infamous terrorist and his mentor, Abdullah Azzam, her heroes, the complaint says.

Siddiqui told the undercover agent Velentzas "has been obsessed" with pressure cookers since the 2013 terror attack at the Boston Marathon, according to the complaint. Velentzas told the agent she had recently gotten a pressure cooker as a present.

"You can fit a lot of things in [the pressure cooker], even if it's not food," Velentzas told the agent, apparently referencing explosive materials, according to the complaint.

In June, Velentzas allegedly told the undercover agent she and Siddiqui needed to learn how to take someone's weapon from them and fight multiple people at once.

According to the complaint, she told the agent, "If we get arrested, the police will point their guns at us from the back and maybe from the front. If we can get even one of their weapons, we can shoot them. They will probably kill us but we will be martyrs automatically and receive Allah's blessing."

In recorded conversations between Velentzas, Siddiqui and the undercover agent, the women talked about learning "science" in order to build a bomb, the complaint says. Velentzas allegedly told the other two to deny being good at science if they were ever asked about it, because that could tip off investigators to their plans. She warned about other ways they could get caught, and complained that one man who was allegedly planning to attack Manhattan's Herald Square subway station was caught because he scouted out the location.

Velentzas asked the agent why an individual would attack the subway station. When the agent replied, "Because there's a lot of people," Velentzas said, "Yeah, but just regular people," the complaint says. Court documents say the agent believed that statement indicated she would prefer to attack military or government targets rather than civilians.

The women also looked into chemistry beginner books at a public library and talked about using communications like pre-paid phones that would not be traced back to them. Siddiqui took a course on electricity and met with Velentzas and the undercover agent in a park in September to talk about how they could use wires to cause an explosion remotely, the complaint says. They also discussed how to make homemade grenades, pipe bombs and pressure cooker bombs.

In that same meeting, Velentzas said they needed to learn the science behind bomb-building to avoid being like Faisal Shahzad, the man who drove an SUV full of explosives into Times Square on a warm Saturday night in May 2010. He wasn't able to detonate the bombs. Shahzad later pleaded guilty to a 10-count indictment and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.

Siddiqui recently told the undercover agent she didn't want to talk to the officer about her progress in learning how to build a bomb, according to the criminal complaint, though it wasn't clear if that expedited Thursday's arrests.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton condemned the suspects' alleged "sustained efforts" to obtain bomb-making materials and instructions and applauded the multi-agency team that brought them in, calling the squad a "model for early detection and prevention of terrorist plotting."

"The defendants allegedly plotted to wreak terror by creating explosive devices and even researching the pressure cooker bombs used during the Boston Marathon bombing,” said Assistant Director in Charge Diego Rodriguez.

"We remain firm in our resolve to hold accountable anyone who would seek to terrorize the American people, whether by traveling abroad to commit attacks overseas or by plotting here at home," added U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch of the Eastern District of New York.

Both women face life imprisonment if convicted.

The case comes less than two months after three Brooklyn men were arrested for allegedly plotting to join ISIS overseas. Those three men -- Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, 24, Akhror Saidakhmetov, 19, and 30-year-old Abror Habibov, have pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging them with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and travel document fraud.

Juraboev and Saidakhmetov allegedly planned to travel to Syria through Turkey, and Habibov allegedly funded the operation.

According to court documents, Juraboev first came to the attention of law enforcement in August, when he posted on an Uzbek-language website that propagates ISIS ideology. His plans included attacks against President Obama or planting a bomb on Coney Island, officials said. Another suspect discussed shooting FBI agents and police officers, the indictment alleged.

It wasn't immediately clear if authorities believed there to be a connection between the arrest of the Brooklyn men in late February and the arrest of the women Thursday.

Both women are expected to next appear in court May 4.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/Terror-Arrest-New-York-FBI-NYPD-Police-297422441.html

 

[Dozdoats]

Sounds like a couple of live ones.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=adc_1427994745 indicated one of them had been talking to "undercover agents" for years.

 

[mzkitty]

Sounds like a couple of live ones.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=adc_1427994745 indicated one of them had been talking to "undercover agents" for years.

The two women, who are US citizens, referred to themselves as "citizens of the Islamic State", according to court documents.


Rags.

 

[Vtshooter]

The two women, who are US citizens, referred to themselves as "citizens of the Islamic State", according to court documents.

Well then, stoning might be appropriate, since that seems to be an approved Islamic method of dealing with women criminals.

 

[Ragnarok]

The two women, who are US citizens, referred to themselves as "citizens of the Islamic State", according to court documents.


Rags.

I've been so busy with that Erdogan thread I've neglected the news, today.

Seems you can't look away for a second without a major story popping up.

 

[mzkitty]

I've been so busy with that Erdogan thread I've neglected the news, today.

Seems you can't look away for a second without a major story popping up.

True. And there is so much more that doesn't get posted here, either because we miss it, or as I've said before there just isn't time to post everything. This is truly a plague upon the land, and worse than we are aware of. I totally blame the disgusting politicians. If there's a hell, then that's their next exit.

 

[ChicagoMan74]

Funny how it the Obama administration throws these foiled plots out every so often...anything to distract the plebs.

 

[Sleeping Cobra]

FBI Patsies.

 

[Sleeping Cobra]

This story is utter BS. Everyone knows the FBI / CIA are directly involved with things like this but use scapegoats for their operations.