A 33-year antique New York man, plotting to travel to Pakistan after moving the border into Afghanistan to join the Taliban, changed into arrested and charged with attempting to provide cloth assist for terror plots to kill US nationals and soldiers overseas.
Delowar Mohammed Hossain of the Bronx turned into charge on Friday in a crook grievance with trying to offer cloth assist for acts of terrorism, particularly in killing US nationals placed in foreign places.
The price incorporates a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.
Hossain was arrested at the John F Kennedy International Airport through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as he tried to board a plane to Thailand.
“As alleged, Hossain deliberate to journey distant places and be a part of the Taliban a good way to kill American squaddies,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers stated.
The criminal complaint filed inside the Manhattan federal court docket said that starting within the fall of 2018, Hossain expressed his choice to enroll in the Taliban and fight against American forces. Over the months that followed, he tried to recruit a exclusive supply to travel with him from the USA to Pakistan, after which to go the border into Afghanistan to enroll in the Taliban.
Hossain instructed the source that his reason became to “fight the American authorities from there…Combined with the Taliban” and that “I need to kill some…(non-believers) before I die”.
He additionally defined to the undercover source the stairs he had taken to prevent detection of his plan, including planning to reach Pakistan b
y using first flying to Thailand, which Hossain believed could hide his final aim of joining the Taliban.
At the same time, he made arrangements to combat Afghanistan, consisting of shopping for equipment such as walkie-talkies and hiking gear and educating the supply to shop money “to shop for guns” after achieving Afghanistan.
Hossain had purchased an airline price tag for a plane scheduled to leave from JFK to Thailand on Friday.
US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman said Hossain desired to kill Americans and mainly wanted to target American armed forces serving remote places.
Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI William Sweeney Jr stated the “entice of radical ideologies comes from many resources and simply because the Taliban might also appear to be old and out of style extremist group; it has to be no longer underestimated.”
He brought that the law enforcement government stopped Hossain from traveling remote places to help a “lethal agency allegedly and stored him from his alleged plan to kill innocent people.”
New York Police Commissioner James O’Neil stated that attempting to aid terrorist attacks will cause arrest, as has been seen repeatedly.
