A ‘terror technicality.’ Wright plotted the death of blogger Pamela Geller, political activist, with his uncle, Usaamah Rahim, and a third man.
The other four guilty convictions stand. I will be at the re-sentencing hearing.
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David Wright admitted sharing Islamic State propaganda online and discussing an attack against Geller. But he insisted he didn’t actually support the terror group and that his conversations about violence were just “trash talk” fueled by a desperate desire for attention.
An FBI informant has described his correspondence with a Massachusetts man accused of participating in a plot to behead a conservative blogger who angered Muslims when she organized a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas.
Rovinski said the three men hoped “that by going forth with the beheading against Pamela Geller, that we would then gain martyrdom through our death. We had pledged allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State.”
Jurors heard phone calls between the three men, who were laughing wildly about beheadings. Rahim was heard in a conversation with Wright in 2015 saying, “I just made a wonderful purchase,” referring to a knife he had just bought.
A man accused of participating in a plot to behead conservative blogger Pamela Geller became consumed by Islamic State group propaganda because he was overweight, lonely and desperate for an escape from his bleak life, his defense attorney said Wednesday.
Prosecutors say a Massachusetts man accused of participating in a plot to behead a conservative blogger for the Islamic State group asked a fellow prisoner to help him “neutralize” his co-defendant and an informant.
Authorities say 27-year-old David Wright plotted with Rhode Island resident Nicholas Rovinski and another man to kill blogger Pamela Geller.
“There have been threats made against this confidential informant by this defendant,” Assistant US Attorney B. Stephanie Siegmann told US District Judge William G. Young during a pretrial conference.
“‘How to Survive in the West’ also includes instructions to kill anyone who depicts Muhammad in a manner Muslims find blasphemous. ‘Allah is asking us; why don’t you fight a people who broke their covenant of peace (with the Muslims) first, then reviled our religion (by promoting insulting pictures of Prophet Muhammad) and started (Arabic: bada’*)…
The mosques and the imams behind the jihad attacks are never addressed by the media or the Obama administration. And that’s where these terrible ideas are taught, advanced and promoted. There have been over 26,000 jihadi attacks since 9/11, each one with the imprimatur of a Muslim cleric. Consider this: the Oklahoma jihad beheader, Jah’Keem…
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