North Carolina: FBI arrests suspect in thwarted NYE ISIS-style terror attack plot

[Valletta]

Law enforcement searched Sturdivant’s residence on December 29th, uncovering various handwritten documents, including one titled, “New Years Attack 2026,” which “listed, among other things, items such as a vest, mask, tactical gloves, and two knives allegedly to be used in the attack.”
“It also listed a goal of stabbing as many civilians as possible and [the] total number of victims as 20 to 21. The note also included a section listed as ‘martyrdom Op,’ with a plan to attack police that arrived at the site of the attack so the defendant would die a martyr,” the Attorney’s Office stated. “In addition, law enforcement seized from Sturdivant’s bedroom a blue hammer, a wooden handled hammer, and two butcher knives hidden underneath the defendant’s bed.”

North Carolina: FBI arrests suspect in thwarted NYE ISIS-style terror attack plot

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel reported that the agency thwarted an ISIS-Inspired attack planned for New Year’s Eve in North Carolina.

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Unless we restore our educational system, and steps have been taken under this administration, I fear many more will be radicalized.

 

[rjs330]

Good for the FBI. Just another Islamist in America. Islamism is a threat in far too many ways.

 

[MarcusGregor]

Law enforcement searched Sturdivant’s residence on December 29th, uncovering various handwritten documents, including one titled, “New Years Attack 2026,” which “listed, among other things, items such as a vest, mask, tactical gloves, and two knives allegedly to be used in the attack.”
“It also listed a goal of stabbing as many civilians as possible and [the] total number of victims as 20 to 21. The note also included a section listed as ‘martyrdom Op,’ with a plan to attack police that arrived at the site of the attack so the defendant would die a martyr,” the Attorney’s Office stated. “In addition, law enforcement seized from Sturdivant’s bedroom a blue hammer, a wooden handled hammer, and two butcher knives hidden underneath the defendant’s bed.”

North Carolina: FBI arrests suspect in thwarted NYE ISIS-style terror attack plot

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel reported that the agency thwarted an ISIS-Inspired attack planned for New Year’s Eve in North Carolina.

www.oann.com

Unless we restore our educational system, and steps have been taken under this administration, I fear many more will be radicalized.

Or, alternatively, we could beef up our mental health care in this country, which seems to have played a much bigger role in this guy's "radicalization" by an FBI person posing as an ISIS person rather than any education the suspect might have had.

 

[rjs330]

Or, alternatively, we could beef up our mental health care in this country, which seems to have played a much bigger role in this guy's "radicalization" by an FBI person posing as an ISIS person rather than any education the suspect might have had.

He wasn't radicalized by the FBI. What a goofy thing to say. He was already radicalized and the FBI discovered it and through good police work found out what his plans were.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

He wasn't radicalized by the FBI. What a goofy thing to say. He was already radicalized and the FBI discovered it and through good police work found out what his plans were.

Good police work like reading the title of a document called "New Years attack 2026."

It's almost too perfect to believe.

 

[Valletta]

Good police work like reading the title of a document called "New Years attack 2026."

It's almost too perfect to believe.

There were two individuals in my local area who time and time again pleaded with the Washington FBI office to check out a Muslim who was taking flying lessons on a Boeing 747 simulator. The guy insisted he did not want to learn to take off or land the aircraft, just to fly it. Week after week Washington FBI refused to lift a finger to check him out. Had they done so and learned he had trained at the al Qaeda Khalden Camp perhaps they would have acted. I'd seen intelligence bungled by the U.S. government to an even greater degree before that, to this day they have deep personnel problems.

 

[JosephZ]

He wasn't radicalized by the FBI. What a goofy thing to say.

Most Muslim male targets are young, easily manipulated, and otherwise vulnerable due to mental illness, indigence, unemployment,recent release from prison, or social isolation.

The objective of informants and undercover agents apparently is to transition their Muslim targets who express “extremist” political views toward violence through involvement with a (fake) member of a terrorist group or engaging in lone wolf violence through a (fake) terrorist plot. Put simply, the state is sponsoring violent radicalization. What the sting operations demonstrate is that the government cultivates the Muslim targets throughout fake terrorist plots to produce a ‘fully fledged’ terrorist ripe for indictment, prosecution, and incarceration.

A closer look at the anatomy of a sting operation demonstrates how the FBI structures its sting operations to apply the social network theory. Informants and undercover agents create the social ties and foster trust necessary to manipulate and pressure their Muslim targets to join a fake terrorist plot. Government operatives spend months, and sometimes years, to radicalize the Muslim target. They create a secret (fake) terrorist cell with targets that triggers a strong sense of cohesion among the group members. And because most targets know nothing about building bombs or planning a terrorist attack, the informants and undercover agents play an outsized role in planning and executing the plot. When the defendant later alleges he was entrapped, the law fails to protect him from the government’s predatory practices because proof of radicalization is all the government needs to prove predisposition.168 The defendant’s posts on social media and in chat rooms, though otherwise protected by the First Amendment, is often the basis on which the government proves his disposition to commit a terrorism act.

They look for individuals posting, consuming, or verbally supporting extremist content online that includes bombast, puffery, and blowhard statements commending Al Qaeda and ISIS. But the FBI provides more than the means and opportunity for these “radical” Muslims to engage in a fake terrorist plot. Informants and undercover agents manipulate, coerce, and encourage the targeted individual to take action. And when the target is indicted, government officials proudly announce their success in defeating “homegrown Muslim terrorism.

While sting operations and the use of informants can be effective law enforcement tools, their use becomes illegitimate when they manufacture crime that otherwise would not have occurred but for the government’s predatory practices.

Sahar F. Aziz, State Sponsored Radicalization, 27 MICH. J. RACE & L. 125 (2021).
Available at: "State Sponsored Radicalization" by Sahar F. Aziz


The Sting

How the FBI Created a Terrorist

Informant-led sting operations are central to the FBI’s counterterrorism program. Of 508 defendants prosecuted in federal terrorism-related cases in the decade after 9/11, 243 were involved with an FBI informant, while 158 were the targets of sting operations. Of those cases, an informant or FBI undercover operative led 49 defendants in their terrorism plots, similar to the way Osmakac was led in his.

In these cases, the FBI says paid informants and undercover agents are foiling attacks before they occur. But the evidence suggests... that the FBI isn’t always nabbing would-be terrorists so much as setting up mentally ill or economically desperate people to commit crimes they could never have accomplished on their own.

 

[RocksInMyHead]

Ah yes, the classic Islamic terror plot to...stab a bunch of people in a grocery store in a random North Carolina suburb?

Sounds like a normal Wednesday in the US, TBH.

ETA: Don't get me wrong - I'm glad it didn't happen, but I can't help but wonder what the role of the "OC" was in pushing him to plan this attack. This guy clearly had no idea what he was doing beyond dying - the target has zero ideological significance, and the plan is peak amateur hour.

 

[rjs330]

Most Muslim male targets are young, easily manipulated, and otherwise vulnerable due to mental illness, indigence, unemployment,recent release from prison, or social isolation.

The objective of informants and undercover agents apparently is to transition their Muslim targets who express “extremist” political views toward violence through involvement with a (fake) member of a terrorist group or engaging in lone wolf violence through a (fake) terrorist plot. Put simply, the state is sponsoring violent radicalization. What the sting operations demonstrate is that the government cultivates the Muslim targets throughout fake terrorist plots to produce a ‘fully fledged’ terrorist ripe for indictment, prosecution, and incarceration.

A closer look at the anatomy of a sting operation demonstrates how the FBI structures its sting operations to apply the social network theory. Informants and undercover agents create the social ties and foster trust necessary to manipulate and pressure their Muslim targets to join a fake terrorist plot. Government operatives spend months, and sometimes years, to radicalize the Muslim target. They create a secret (fake) terrorist cell with targets that triggers a strong sense of cohesion among the group members. And because most targets know nothing about building bombs or planning a terrorist attack, the informants and undercover agents play an outsized role in planning and executing the plot. When the defendant later alleges he was entrapped, the law fails to protect him from the government’s predatory practices because proof of radicalization is all the government needs to prove predisposition.168 The defendant’s posts on social media and in chat rooms, though otherwise protected by the First Amendment, is often the basis on which the government proves his disposition to commit a terrorism act.

They look for individuals posting, consuming, or verbally supporting extremist content online that includes bombast, puffery, and blowhard statements commending Al Qaeda and ISIS. But the FBI provides more than the means and opportunity for these “radical” Muslims to engage in a fake terrorist plot. Informants and undercover agents manipulate, coerce, and encourage the targeted individual to take action. And when the target is indicted, government officials proudly announce their success in defeating “homegrown Muslim terrorism.

While sting operations and the use of informants can be effective law enforcement tools, their use becomes illegitimate when they manufacture crime that otherwise would not have occurred but for the government’s predatory practices.

Sahar F. Aziz, State Sponsored Radicalization, 27 MICH. J. RACE & L. 125 (2021).
Available at: "State Sponsored Radicalization" by Sahar F. Aziz


The Sting

How the FBI Created a Terrorist

Informant-led sting operations are central to the FBI’s counterterrorism program. Of 508 defendants prosecuted in federal terrorism-related cases in the decade after 9/11, 243 were involved with an FBI informant, while 158 were the targets of sting operations. Of those cases, an informant or FBI undercover operative led 49 defendants in their terrorism plots, similar to the way Osmakac was led in his.

In these cases, the FBI says paid informants and undercover agents are foiling attacks before they occur. But the evidence suggests... that the FBI isn’t always nabbing would-be terrorists so much as setting up mentally ill or economically desperate people to commit crimes they could never have accomplished on their own.

That is such bunk, its ridiculous. I don't believe a word of it. These Muslims are radicalized and the good undercover work finds out how radicalized they are. Some may be mentally ill. But we also know for a fact that there are millions of radical Islamist terrorists out there and terrorist organizations. They are not all mentally ill.

This Aziz dude is full of it. In the case at hand it doesn't take much money to carry out a terrorist attack with a knife. This guy was just another radical Islamist extremist who wanted to murder people in the name of Islam. I'm a bit tired of prople trying to defend them.
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[rjs330]

Ah yes, the classic Islamic terror plot to...stab a bunch of people in a grocery store in a random North Carolina suburb?

Sounds like a normal Wednesday in the US, TBH.

ETA: Don't get me wrong - I'm glad it didn't happen, but I can't help but wonder what the role of the "OC" was in pushing him to plan this attack. This guy clearly had no idea what he was doing beyond dying - the target has zero ideological significance, and the plan is peak amateur hour.

Well this stuff has occurred in other countries by Islamists. Its no surprise that one of them was going to do it here. Were we somehow supposed to be immune?