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timosman
04-06-2017, 04:42 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-teen-pleads-guilty-2015-islamic-state-plot-222650655.html


AFP April 3, 2017

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Washington (AFP) - A New Jersey teen pleaded guilty Monday to a plot allegedly inspired by the Islamic State group to kill Pope Francis during his 2015 visit to the United States.

The US Justice Department said Santos Colon, 15 years old at the time, sought to recruit a sniper to shoot the pope as he celebrated mass in Philadelphia on September 27, 2015. Colon also allegedly planned to set off explosives.

But the teen unwittingly recruited an undercover FBI agent for the job, and was arrested quietly 12 days before the event.

"Colon engaged someone he believed would be the sniper, but in reality was an undercover FBI employee. Colon engaged in target reconnaissance with an FBI confidential source and instructed the source to purchase materials to make explosive devices," the Justice Department said in a statement.

Court documents said Colon sought to carry out the act in support of the Islamic State group and that he had used the adopted name Ahmad Shakoor.

In a plea bargain with prosecutors, Colon, now 17, agreed to forego trial and plead guilty as an adult to one charge of providing material support to a terror group.

With the deal, prosecutors dropped three other charges filed against him as a juvenile.

Court documents said the charges were in relation to the Islamic State group, which Washington has designated a foreign terrorist organization.

But there were no details on how Colon became interested in the group and if or how he communicated with them.

Pope Francis celebrated mass for tens of thousands of followers in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the historic east coast city to cap a week-long visit for the World Meeting of Families

Colon's home is in Lindenwold, New Jersey, just east of Philadelphia.

Colon faces a maximum of 15 years in prison but sentencing would likely be held off until 2021 while he undergoes psychiatric treatment in a secure facility.

In a plea statement, Colon acknowledged having been a patient in a mental institution in the past.

misterx
04-06-2017, 05:12 PM
I would've laughed so hard if this Isamic terror apologist was killed by an Islamic terrorist.

dannno
04-06-2017, 05:18 PM
But the teen unwittingly recruited an undercover FBI agent for the job

A likely story..

Occam's Banana
04-06-2017, 05:24 PM
Sounds like yet another fake "terror plot" cooked up by the FBI ...


But the teen unwittingly recruited an undercover FBI agent for the job, and was arrested quietly 12 days before the event.

What this likely means: an undercover FBI agent recruited the unwitting teen ...


"Colon engaged someone he believed would be the sniper, but in reality was an undercover FBI employee. Colon engaged in target reconnaissance with an FBI confidential source and instructed the source to purchase materials to make explosive devices," the Justice Department said in a statement.

What this likely means: Colon "engaged someone he believed would be the sniper" and "instructed the source to purchase materials to make explosive device" after the "source" cajoled him into doing those things ...

unknown
04-06-2017, 06:23 PM
But there were no details on how Colon became interested in the group and if or how he communicated with them.

Right.

eleganz
04-06-2017, 06:30 PM
sounds like a storyline of 24 lol

RJB
04-06-2017, 07:48 PM
Let him immigrate inside the walls of the Vatican.