December 16, 2015 – Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)

New York: Anti-Muslim KKK Terrorist Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison – FBI

Ku Klux Klan (KKK) terrorist plotter Eric J. Feight was sentenced to 8 years in prison on December 16, 2015, for providing material support to terrorists in a Ku Klux Klan plot to kill Muslim-Americans in the Albany, New York area. The anti-Muslim terrorist Eric J. Feight sought to modify an industrial-grade radiation device intended to be used to kill Muslims in the Albany area. He assisted KKK terrorist Glendon Scott Crawford by designing and building a remote initiation unit to allow the radiation device to be activated from a distance.

The terrorist was arrested in June 19, 2013. As the Albany Times Union reported at the time: “they never actually obtained a radiation source and the device was not fully constructed, officials said.”

As previously reported by R.E.A.L., Eric J. Feight’s co-conspirator, KKK terrorist Glendon Scott Crawford was convicted in August 2015. His co-conspirator faces prison sentencing of 25 years to life, and also plotted an attack on the New York Governor’s Mansion, as previously reported.

The FBI reported on the sentencing of Ku Klux Klan terrorist plotter Eric J. Feight:

WASHINGTON—Eric J. Feight, 55, of Hudson, New York, was sentenced today to serve 97 months in prison for providing material support to terrorists.

The sentence was announced by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Richard S. Hartunian of the Northern District of New York and Special Agent in Charge Andrew W. Vale of the FBI’s Albany, New York, Division.

Feight pleaded guilty on Jan. 22, 2014, and admitted to helping Glendon Scott Crawford modify an industrial-grade radiation device intended to be used to kill Muslims in the Albany area. Feight also admitted he assisted Crawford by designing and building a remote initiation unit to allow the radiation device to be activated from a distance. Both men were arrested following an extensive federal investigation. Crawford, a self-proclaimed Ku Klux Klan (KKK) member, sought financial support for his plot from the KKK, and he and Feight later met with individuals they believed to be KKK financiers to advance their scheme to kill innocent Americans. Those individuals were actually FBI agents posing as businessmen connected to the KKK who were willing to support the scheme.

“Eric Feight aided Glendon Scott Crawford in altering a dispersal device to target unsuspecting Muslim Americans with lethal doses of radiation,” said Assistant Attorney General Carlin. “Feight and Crawford’s abominable plot to harm innocent Americans was thwarted thanks to the tireless efforts of law enforcement. The National Security Division’s highest priority continues to be combatting terrorism, and we remain ready to identify, disrupt and prevent terrorist threats, both domestically and internationally.”

“The sentence today highlights both the dangers we face when hatred and bigotry beget domestic terrorism and violent extremism, and our commitment to holding those who commit such crimes accountable,” said U.S. Attorney Hartunian. “No American—of any background—should have to live in fear of this kind of attack. This case illustrates the importance of vigilance by community members and an immediate, comprehensive investigation by our Albany FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, which thwarted the diabolical plan Feight supported. We must continue to counter messages of hate by empowering communities and emphasizing the inclusion on which our nation was founded—with local, state and federal law enforcement ready to stop any who refuse to heed that call.”

“Today’s sentencing is the result of the incredible efforts of our Joint Terrorism Task Force and the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” said Special Agent in Charge Vale. “While we enjoy today’s success, it is important that we continue to gain the strongest possible understanding to allow us to better assess the terrorism threat and identify those who would go beyond hateful rhetoric and extremist views to commit violent, criminal acts.”

This case was investigated by the Albany FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Stephen C. Green and Richard Belliss of the Northern District of New York, and Trial Attorney Joseph Kaster of the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section.

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Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) stands in support of our universal human rights for all, and we stand in defiance against those, including terrorist and hate groups, which seek to attack such universal human rights, dignity, and security for all.

We cannot support human rights, if we also do not reject those who seek to rob our brothers and sisters in humanity of their lives and security, which are also our universal human rights.

Sweden: ISIS Letter Threats

Swedish press and other European press has reported a series of death threats purportedly from ISIS extremists posted in Swedish areas of Sigtuna, Ronneby, and Vasteras, stating that if the residents that they will decapitate ‘non-believers’ who do not convert to ISIS’s twisted views or pay a religious tax. The threat reportedly also extended to Stockholm. The story was first reported in Sigtuna. Then additional accounts were reported in Ronneby and Vasteras, with other reports about threats in Stockholm.

Swedish SVT News first reported the threatening letters in connection to Sigtuna, stating (translated into English): “Several residents of the municipality of Sigtuna has received threatening letters in their mailboxes. In the case of “IS-piece” which says that one should convert to Islam, pay the poll tax, or be beheaded. The police are taking seriously the threats. During Thursday received a number of accommodation of Steningehöjden distributed IS-pieces in their mailboxes. According to the police, these are two plaintiffs. But SVT Stockholm News has spoken with one of the residents in the area and according to her, there are several who received such threatening letters.”

Swedish SVT News also reported: “Police are now investigating whether there is a threat against the people who received the letters. A further letter should have been found on the ground adjacent to the residential area. We take this very seriously before we know what it is about. We have connected the Security Service in order to make an assessment, said Emil Andersson, local police chief Sigtuna.” “This is a police matter. What we have done is to send out information to management executives who in turn sent out information to principals and teachers. We want to spread this so that no one should have received a letter and then walk around and be scared. You should be able to turn to someone directly, says Anna Jernberg Carlsson, press officer for the municipality of Sigtuna.”

The original Swedish news posting can be provided at this link.

Swedish Press Reports on Threatening Letters Purportedly from ISIS

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We cannot support human rights, if we also do not reject those who seek to rob our brothers and sisters in humanity of their lives and security, which are also our universal human rights.

Combat Terrorist Use of Social Media Act of 2015

On December 16, 2015, U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill (H.R. 3654) titled the “Combat Terrorist Use of Social Media Act of 2015.”

The text of the bill stated:

To require a report on United States strategy to combat terrorist use of social media, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Combat Terrorist Use of Social Media Act of 2015”.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON STRATEGY TO COMBAT TERRORIST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA.

(a) In General.—Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall transmit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on United States strategy to combat terrorists’ and terrorist organizations’ use of social media.

(b) Elements.—The report required by subsection (a) shall include the following:

(1) An evaluation of what role social media plays in radicalization in the United States and elsewhere.

(2) An analysis of how terrorists and terrorist organizations are using social media, including trends.

(3) A summary of the Federal Government’s efforts to disrupt and counter the use of social media by terrorists and terrorist organizations, an evaluation of the success of such efforts, and recommendations for improvement.

(4) An analysis of how social media is being used for counter-radicalization and counter-propaganda purposes, irrespective of whether or not such efforts are made by the Federal Government.

(5) An assessment of the value of social media posts by terrorists and terrorist organizations to law enforcement.

(6) An overview of social media training available to law enforcement and intelligence personnel that enables such personnel to understand and combat the use of social media by terrorists and terrorist organizations, as well as recommendations for improving or expanding existing training opportunities.

(c) Form.—The report required by subsection (a) should be submitted in unclassified form, and may include a classified annex in accordance with the protection of intelligence sources and methods.

SEC. 3. POLICY AND COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY TO COUNTER TERRORISTS’ AND TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS’ USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA.

(a) In General.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall transmit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that contains a comprehensive strategy to counter terrorists’ and terrorist organizations’ use of social media, as committed to in the President’s 2011 “Strategic Implementation Plan for Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States”.

(b) Form.—The report required by subsection (a) should be submitted in unclassified form, and may include a classified annex in accordance with the protection of intelligence sources and methods.

SEC. 4. APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DEFINED.

In this Act, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on the Armed Services, the Committee on Homeland Security, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.

Passed the House of Representatives December 16, 2015.

Germany: ISIS Plot Targeted Israel Embassy in Berlin

The German news media Berliner Zeitung is reporting on the case of an ISIS terrorist plot to attack the Israeli Embassy in Berlin. The reports state that the ISIS plot was a plan to attack the Israeli embassy or another Israeli institution between December 2014 and July 2015. A criminal case began on December 15, 2015 in the Berlin District Court against two 21-year-old men ISIS terrorist plotters, Mohamed El-N. and Ali El-I., who are charged with “preparing a serious subversive violence.”

One of the ISIS terrorist plotters, Mohamed El-N., is a German citizen. Both men were born in Berlin. Mohamed El-N. had been working as a baker. He also told his friends that he sought to support suicide bombings and attacks on public schools, including taking hostages from schools. Reportedly, a witness on Friday, December 18, will report that he claims to have saw a bomb. While the police found guns and other weapons on the men, the authorities reported in court that traces of chemicals used to make bombs.

Berliner Zeitung reports (translated into English) that the terrorist plot was inspired initially by the ISIS attack on a Tunisia hotel in June 2015, as previously reported by R.E.A.L. and others.

According to the Berliner Zeitung (translated): “Ali El-I. had adopted a radical Islamist sentiment, he endorsed the violence of the ‘Islamic State’ (IS) and was so fascinated by the touch of a single perpetrator to a Tunisian tourist hotel in June that he saw himself as a future perpetrator, says the prosecutor. Ali El-I. was determined to use the explosives for an attack on the Israeli embassy or any other institution in the country, where he had gone out of casualties.”

“On his cell phone the police found propaganda IS. A witness, who heard both brag about their projects, went to the police. He claims he saw the bomb. This statement is based the indictment. In July and Mohamed Ali were arrested. They lived in a home for young homeless people in Gesundbrunnen.”

“An explosive device, police found in them not, but firearms, prohibited knife, a baseball bat – and Schreckschuss ammunition. There is evidence that they were handling explosives. A chemist of LKA says in court that in the clothes of the two traces of potassium perchlorate and aluminum adhered to so admit it only in pyrotechnics. Also on the tape was seized potassium perchlorate. The defendants assert, built no bomb, but to have handled only with condensed milk and some cartridges.”

“Both were born in Berlin. Mohamed is a German citizen, Ali’s nationality is unknown; he comes from a Palestinian family. While Mohamed worked in a bakery, Ali spent the time with smoking pot and playing on the Playstation. They knew each other only two months, and all about good friends, they are not comfortable. ‘I noticed he had radical ideas, wanted to convince me IS’, Mohamed says Ali. He had said that suicide bombers after her death have a smile on his face. ‘He also tells of hostage-taking in schools and that he wanted to shoot hostages in the head. But I could not take that seriously. I guess he just needs the attention of others. ‘”

During the court trial, Ali El-I.’s lawyer stated that Ali El-I.’s “involvement with the IS is characterized by a “certain ambivalence,’ and that Ali El-I. was not serious about really supporting ISIS. In court, “Ali admitted that he built an explosive device. But having taken the accusation that planned an attack against Israeli institutions and fatalities, he rejected this. The blast was supposed to go up in the forest.”

The original news report in German is provided at this link.

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As always, R.E.A.L. views that all are legally innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

We cannot support human rights, if we also do not reject those who seek to rob our brothers and sisters in humanity of their lives and security, which are also our universal human rights.

Austria: ISIS Terrorists Linked to Paris Attack Escaped France Using Fake Passports

Austrian Kronen-Zeitung news reports that French ISIS terrorists are using fake Syrian passports to escape detection and move throughout Europe, going through Greece to arrive in Austria. The report states that individuals have included those linked to the November 13, 2015 ISIS terrorist attack on Paris, and that the size of the Paris ISIS terrorist cell is larger than previously believed. The report also states that security authorities are concerned that this ISIS terrorist cell has been waiting for further orders to perpetuate new extremist terrorist attacks in Europe.

Austrian Kronen-Zeitung news reports state that (translation from German to English): “Europe’s secret services had warned that now there is the confirmation: Two Paris- Terror helpers were disguised as refugees, arrested in a Salzburg Transit quarters. The two Frenchmen with Algerian or Pakistani roots were with the members of subsequent IS Stop commands via Greece entered with fake Syrian passports. The men are now in continuous interrogation by French and native intelligence experts as the ‘crown’ learned, among other controversial details.”

“A few days ago there were two other putative IS Fighters have been taken in a Salzburg Transit quarters. However, the two current arrests are even more explosive: The case is a ‘Verschlussakt’. Reportedly, the men were officially recognized as asylum seekers – equipped with forged documents – with the future IS Stop command entered via the Balkan route. Meanwhile crystallized in any case out more and more that the terrorist cell of Paris must be far greater.”

“Now prevails Security Red Alert”
“In the intelligence services now prevails Security Red Alert. It is necessary to clarify whether the two suspects may have planned around the Christmas season with another accomplice attacks in major European cities. On the part of the judiciary, there are to the highly charged case an information blackout. ‘I can not comment,’ said Robert Holzleitner, spokesman for the Salzburg public prosecutor to ‘crown’.”

“Introduced in October to Austria”
“How the ‘Crown’ yet learned were that since Tuesday in U- Detention seated ‘refugees’ tracked by information of a friendly foreign intelligence service. In the city of Mozart, the two Frenchmen waited apparently on the order to perpetrate further attacks. Now the investigators expect more information by a continuous interrogation of the men.”

The original press report in German can be viewed here.

France24 News in English reports this as: “The Kronen-Zeitung daily reported online that the two are French and that they entered Austria in October together with members of the terror cell who carried out the November 13 attacks in the French capital that killed 130 people. The newspaper said that they had been posing as refugees and had fake Syrian passports, having traveled up from Greece through the Balkans into Austria along with hundreds of thousands of migrants arriving in recent months.”

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We cannot support human rights, if we also do not reject those who seek to rob our brothers and sisters in humanity of their lives and security, which are also our universal human rights.