On Tuesday, a man was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he tried to board a flight to Doha, Qatar. His intended destination was Syria, where he planned to join ISIS and engage in terrorism .
Radicalized individual According to a criminal complaint filed on November 6th, Syed Aman, a US citizen and a resident of Nassau County, New York, was attempting to provide support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Aman has been expressing his support for the terrorist outfit on social media posts on an ISIS online forum over the last two years. He also sent money to an individual he believed to be an ISIS operative.
The money was intended to support the group's terrorist activities in Syria. Aman also made travel arrangements to travel to Syria and engage in jihad (holy war) on behalf of the organization. Fortunately, since the beginning of October, Aman has been in contact with a confidential human source (an informant) who was working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) about his plans to join ISIS.
Through his conversations, Aman expressed that he wanted to wage war in Syria and believed that it was the most important thing at the moment. Aman expressed hatred for non-believers or "kuffar”, saying, "If you don't kill them, they will kill us and ruin the earth with decay." He also posted about his desire to kill Americans and wrote of his intentions to become a martyr or “shaheed" on behalf of ISIS.
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