Amer Alhaggagi was a young, aspiring terrorist in Oakland, California with dreams of blowing up a San Francisco gay bar, selling cocaine mixed with strychnine (rat poison), starting a massive hill fire to destroy homes and blowing up the UC Berkley dorms with backpack bombs.
“I’d like to kill the students,” he says to an undercover FBI agent on a recently released tape. “I’ve been so excited about it. I’ve been hyped up.” Then he laughs.
In July, the 23-year-old pleaded guilty in U.S. District court to providing material support to a foreign terrorist group — namely the Islamic State (also known as ISIS/ISIL or Daesh). He was originally arrested on three counts of identity theft for purchases made on stolen credit cards.
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According to his defense attorney, the material support charges stem from Alhaggagi setting up online profiles and making inflammatory statements, bragging about his desire to kill “gays and Jews” and Berkeley University students because “they think they are better than everyone else.”
While unknowingly talking to an undercover FBI agent, Alhaggagi claimed his uncle was a recruiter for Al-Qaeda. He also talked about receiving instructions on how to create bombs and being asked by terrorists to send photos of his potential venues for an attack.
On tape, he told the FBI agent, “How I’m seeing it is that we could get away so easily. Like if you want to plant a bomb or walk into a place with a bomb, you don’t even have to do it yourself.”
He continued, “Like, there’s so many homeless people that would do it for you, like for a dollar or something. I could tell them to walk into the YMCA with a bag and they’ll do it and we could detonate it from outside.”
“I want to make it to the point where every American here thinks twice or three times before leaving his home, ‘Is it necessary for me to leave right now?,’” he told the agent.
Here is video of Alhaggagi mentioning his murderous plans to an undercover FBI agent.
Alhaggagi’s defense attorney claims that he was just a dumb wannabe, talking big to get attention, but never intended to actually commit an attack.
Nevertheless, his sentencing hearing will commence in in November. If convicted of all charges, he could face 47 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. His attorney is pushing for a four-year sentence.
In anticipation of Islamophobic commenters, let us state (once again) that Islamic terrorists are no more representative of the Muslim faith than the Westboro Baptist Church is indicative of Christian faith. In fact, American Muslims support same-sex marriage more than Evangelical Christians do.
Hussain-TheCanadian
It seems to me, after reading couple of more articles about this dumb fck, that he’s an excellent portrait of the kind of person who ends up joining or sympathizes with gangs, terrorist organizations, or militias.
According to the FBI, he has delusions of grandeur, a narcissist, and a “internet troll” like attitude. I’m glad they caught this idiot, who knows if he was really going to follow through, the testimony of the FBI at his last court appearance is quite revealing.
He’s definitely gonna be someone’s b*tch in prison.
Smith David
“The hearts of men are desperately wicked”.
Chrisk
American Muslims might support same-sex marriage a bit more but in most Muslim dominant countries no such thing as gay rights. Stating that is not Islamophobia.
As for this dipshit wannabe ISIS terrorist I don’t understand why up to 47 years is even considered. There he is planning out mass murder. If it was up to me I’d throw the shithead off a tall rooftop. That way he can get his 47 virgins early. Just call it poetic Justice. ;-).
Scorpjr
Has it ever occurred to you that one reason why Muslims are leaving those Muslim – dominated countries to emigrate to countries with actual human rights is because they are just as unhappy about living there as you would be? Oh, and for the record, there are several Christian-dominated countries that also have horrible human and LTGBQ rights issues as well. The US is quickly becoming one of those. Is pointing that out Christian – phobic?
Sam
My families are American Muslims and ultra-conservative. When come out the closet, I was banish seeing my family and they abandon me. Actually, most American Muslims don’t support Gay marriage for my experience. I told being gay is consider Islamophobia it like being black joining the KKK.
I don’t why Queerty being pro-Muslim while my LBGT (ex)Muslim being slaughter or jail in Muslim countries. I hope don’t get ban from queerty.
Hdtex
Glad it’s not up to you. You’re as bad as he is.
Chrisk
@Hdtex. Oh noes. I’m against Muslim psychopaths. I must be terrible. 😉
Smith David
@Chrisk….To be clear, no Muslim truly support’s same-sex anything. They may tolerate us for peace sake but will never truly accept us.
Kangol
Are you kidding? Quite a few Muslims not only support same-sex “anything,” they engage in it too, whatever the religion, repressive religious leaders or repressive governments say. It’s the same with every religion.
Rock-N-RollHS
@ Kangol
So do many evangelicals. So did Roy Cohen, and quite a few Nazis. Having gay sex is not the same as not being in favor of laws and social customs that oppress or persecute homosexuals.
Herman75
Yet they get their boofoo every chance they can get it.
Creamsicle
Seems pretty clear that he was fixated on the university because he was rejected by them, or was never even close to being accepted there. He couldn’t handle his own inadequacy, and so tried to destroy the school because it was easier than trying to improve himself.
Kangol
It’s very good to hear that the FBI caught this low-hanging fruit wannabe mass murderer. The scariest ones are terrorists operating mostly under the radar, like the 9/11 terrorists, most of whom were from Saudi Arabia, who killed 3,000+ people; or the man who slaughtered nearly a dozen people in that Pittsburgh synagogue; or the man who massacred scores of people in Los Vegas; or Dylan Roof, who calmly walked into that church and murdered all those worshipers; or Timothy McVeigh, who blew up 160+ people, including many children, in Oklahoma City. Let’s hope the authorities are always on the lookout for and vigilant about those types.
Hdtex
So….is he single?
Rock-N-RollHS
Lol!
Hussain-TheCanadian
Seriously queen?
He comes off as the kind of guy who’ll suck your dick and then cry about it.
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SeeThis little smcubag is gonna get just what he secretly so very wants….to have inmates run a train on his vile, sorry arse. Ripping his rectum to a bloody mess leaving him wimpering in his cell writhing in pain…
Aires the Ram
When so many of you vote for Democrats, who support an open-border anti-USA policy, who continue to tell us that Islam is a religion of peace, we will have more and more of this. Oh, then there’s the “sanctuary” city and state “problem”. But if conservatives tell the truth about the situation, then they’re labeled “bigots” and “_____-phobes”. Keep voting for Democrats, but don’t cry about the future results of it.