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Wednesday 12 August 2015
Mississippi couple charged in
Islamic State case denied bail
JEFF AMY bomber Dzhokhar Tsar-
naev, saying that like him,
Associated Press they could commit vio-
lence with knives, vehicles
OXFORD, Mississippi (AP) or homemade weapons.
“They don’t need a gun
— A young Mississippi cou- to do harm,” Joyner said.
“They don’t need military
ple who are charged with training to do harm. What
they need is a violent, ex-
attempting to join the Is- tremist ideology, and that’s
exactly what they have
lamic State were ordered espoused.” FBI agents ar-
rested them at a Missis-
held without bail Tuesday, sippi airport, filing criminal
charges that both were at-
pending federal grand jury tempting and conspiring to
provide material support to
action on the charges. a terrorist group, a federal
crime punishable by up to
Twenty-year-old Jae- 20 years in prison and a
fine of $250,000.
lyn Delshaun Young and An FBI agent’s affidavit said
both confessed their plans
22-year-old Muhammad after their arrest. Defense
attorneys declined to com-
“Mo” Dakhlalla, who were ment after the hearing, but
told the court that the ma-
arrested at a local airport terial didn’t prove either
had committed a crime.
just before boarding a Court papers say both
Young and Dakhlalla
flight with tickets bound for are U.S. citizens.q
Istanbul, went before a U.S.
Magistrate Judge on Tues-
day in Oxford, Mississippi.
The judge denied bail, say-
ing that even though the
pair have never been in
trouble with the law and
have relatives willing to
oversee their home con-
finement, their desire com-
mit terrorism is “probably
still there.” Urging the court
to keep the suspects in
custody, Assistant U.S. At-
torney Clay Joyner likened
them to Boston Marathon
Man pleads not guilty to beach bomb plot
In this 2012 photo, Jaelyn Young, an honor student at Warren CURT ANDERSON rorist and has portrayed town. He was arrested in
Central High School, poses for a photo in Vicksburg, Miss. AP Legal Affairs Writer him as “troubled and con- July after officials say he
Young and another Mississippi resident were arrested on MIAMI (AP) — A man has fused.” The case, which took possession of an inert
Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, on charges that they were trying to pleaded not guilty Tues- involved FBI use of under- explosive device from an
travel abroad to join the Islamic State militant group. day to federal charges of cover operatives, evolved undercover FBI employee
plotting to set off a back- from a series of pro-Islamic posing as an Islamic State
(Melanie Thortis/AP) pack bomb on a Florida State postings on Suarez’s member.
beach to show solidarity Facebook pages earlier The material support
with the Islamic State mili- this year. Suarez sometimes charge stems from an Is-
tant group. used a Facebook account lamic State recruitment
Attorney Richard Della with the name “Almlak video Suarez is accused
Fera entered the plea Tues- Benitez” in which he ap- of making — using a script
day in court in Miami for peared to be trying to re- he wrote — with the assis-
23-year-old Harlem Suarez cruit fighters for the terror tance of the FBI informant,
of Key West, Florida, who group, the FBI says. Della Fera said.
did not speak during the “We are the islamic state. “Destroy our enemies
brief hearing. Suarez faces We are isis Muslims,” one against us. Let live only
life in prison if convicted of posting says. who are our brothers and
attempting to use a weap- According to the FBI, Su- sisters,” Suarez says on the
on of mass destruction and arez told an informant he video, according to an FBI
up to 20 years behind bars wanted to detonate a complaint. “American soil
if found guilty of seeking to homemade bomb using a is the past, we will destroy
provide material support to backpack filled with nails America and divide it in
terrorists. on a Florida beach after two, we will raise our black
Della Fera says Suarez, who previously discussing plans flag on top of your White
emigrated from Cuba with to set off a bomb in Mi- House and any president
his family in 2004, is no ter- ami Beach or another Keys on duty (cut head).”q
