Bronx Muzzie Arrested On Terror Charges, Feds Say

[voiceofreason]

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/24/bronx-terror-arrest/


Bronx Man Arrested On Terror Charges, Feds Say
May 24, 2016 11:36 AM

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Agents with the Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested a Bronx man Tuesday on terror charges, the FBI said.

Sajmir Alimehmeti faces charges of providing material support to a terrorist organization.

Click here to read the complaint against Alimehmeti (.pdf) link

Alimehmeti, 22, was arrested early Tuesday morning at his home on Knox Place.

According to the complaint, Alimehmeti was also known as Abdul Qawii and wanted to travel to Syria to train and fight with ISIS. Alimehmeti also fraudulently sought to get a new passport, prosecutors said.

Alimehmeti tried going to England twice in 2014 and was stopped at the border both times, authorities said. The first time he was stopped he was found with camouflage pants and shirts and nunchucks in his luggage. The second time, authorities searched his computer and cell phone and found it contained numerous images of ISIS flags and IED attacks, according to the complaint.

After turning him away from the border and sending him back to the U.S., U.K. officials gave the FBI copies of what they found on his electronic devices, which included a picture of him in front of an ISIS flag, as well as several recordings by Anwar Al-Awlaki, a prominent Al Qaeda operative who was killed in 2011.

Alimehmeti allegedly told an undercover operative that he’d been using encrypted apps to communicate and, if his messages had been decrypted, he “would be done.”

Alimehmeti allegedly bought several knives, gloves with metal knuckles, a mask and other military and survival-type gear, prosecutors said.

 

[The Bobster]

http://nypost.com/2016/05/24/22-year-old-bronx-man-arrested-for-trying-to-join-isis-in-syria/

22-year-old Bronx man arrested for trying to join ISIS in Syria
By Kaja Whitehouse, Jamie Schram and Sophia Rosenbaum
May 24, 2016 | 12:13pm

A picture seized from Sajmir Alimehmeti's computer.


Who needs Jane Fonda when you have Jihadi John!

A Bronx man facing federal terrorism charges used ISIS decapitation videos to keep himself “motivated” while he was working out, according to a criminal complaint.

Sajmir Alimehmeti, 22, was arrested Tuesday morning at his Bronx home by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force on charges of providing material support to ISIS and passport fraud.

Federal investigators allege Alimehmeti has spent the past two years trying to get to Raqqa, which he called the “heart” of ISIS’s operation, in hopes of joining the terror group, according to court documents.

The first time he was stopped was on his way through the United Kingdom on Oct. 24, 2014, when authorities at Manchester Airport found nunchucks and camouflage clothing in his bag, according to the complaint.

Just two months later, he again attempted to get to the Middle East, but didn’t make it past British authorities, who sent him back to the US after they allegedly found photos of ISIS flags and explosive devices on his cellphone and laptop.

Two of the photos showed Alimehmeti dressed in “Middle Eastern attire” and pointing his index finger to the sky, “a sign used to reflect support” for ISIS.

A year after he was denied entry to Syria, he applied for a new passport, claiming he lost his, but authorities charged that he lied about losing the document. Instead, they accused him of trying to replace his current passport because it had two rejection stamps from the UK.

During that time, he also tried to help two undercover agents travel to the Middle East to join ISIS.

He told one of the agents he had already saved $2,500 to travel overseas to join the terrorist group himself, but needed to get a new passport under a different name because he was already “in the system.”

“I’m ready to f–king go with you man,” he said. “You know I would … I’m done with this place.”

While at his Bronx apartment with one of the agents, he played two ISIS-produced videos — including one that showed the barbaric militants beheading prisoners — and said they helped him keep up his pace while he worked up a sweat.

At the time, Alimehmeti mentioned that he had a “plan” with his brother to travel to Syria. But that scheme was foiled when his brother was arrested on weapons and assault charges in Albania last August.

Investigators also found that Alimehmeti had been building up a small arsenal of weapons over the last year from an online store, including a stash of knifes, a reversible face mask, a set of Smith & Wesson handcuffs and gloves with steel knuckles.

His arrest comes after the joint task force, which includes FBI agents and NYPD detectives, rounded up more than six people who were slapped with similar charges in the last year.

 

[The Bobster]

https://nypost.com/2018/02/21/wannabe-terrorist-pleads-guilty-to-providing-support-to-isis/

Wannabe terrorist pleads guilty to providing support to ISIS
By Priscilla DeGregory
February 21, 2018 | 7:31pm

A wannabe terrorist who used Islamic state beheading videos to keep himself “motivated” while working out has pleaded guilty to terrorism charges, prosecutors announced on Wednesday.

Sajmir Alimehmeti, 24, of The Bronx, admitted to charges of providing material support to ISIS and committing passport fraud in order to facilitate an act of international terrorism, for which he faces up to 45 years in federal prison at his sentencing.

In 2014, Alimehmeti twice tried to travel to Syria through the UK to join the terror organization but his plans were foiled with officials finding camouflage clothing and nunchucks in his luggage on one occasion, according to prosecutors.

Then in 2016, Alimehmeti tried to help a man travel to Syria to join the terror group but that man turned out to be an undercover agent — which ultimately got him arrested.

Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman said, “Sajmir Alimehmeti took steps to travel overseas to support ISIS’s terror campaign. He also bought military-type weapons and assisted another to get travel documents, equipment, and encryption technology to fight with ISIS in Syria.”

While in federal custody, Alimehmeti was also caught sharing materials from Chelsea bomber Ahmad Rahimi’s case as a form of jailhouse propaganda. The pair have since been split up from each other in the federal lockup.

 

[The Bobster]

https://nypost.com/2019/12/06/isis-supporter-who-hoped-to-behead-people-with-chainsaw-gets-22-years/

ISIS supporter who hoped to behead people with chainsaw gets 22 years
By Emily Saul
December 6, 2019 | 4:39pm

Sajmir Alimehmeti


A wannabe ISIS decapitator who called himself “The Dentist” while stockpiling tactical knives and a pocket chainsaw in his Bronx pad landed 22 years behind bars Friday.

“You are a ticking time bomb,” Manhattan federal Judge Paul Engelmayer told Sajmir Alimehmeti before imposing the sentence on charges of providing material support to ISIS and passport fraud.

The now-26-year-old defendant began amassing his chilling cache of weapons in his Bronx apartment after he was twice stopped at UK airports en route to Syria in 2014.

Engelmayer listed Alimehmeti’s horrifying array of munitions, including a military-grade survival knife with a 5-inch blade, three tactical knives with 4-inch blades, two credit-card-sized folding knives, a commando wire pocket saw, a 24-inch pocket chainsaw, a rucksack designed for tactical combat, a tactical ski mask and handcuffs.

The judge said it was impossible to conceive of a “benign reason” for Alimehmeti to “stockpile weapons that would be used to restrain, gut, or decapitate a human body.”

Prosecutor Emil Bove agreed, describing how Alimehemti waxed poetic to undercover agents about his desire to conduct beheadings on ISIS’s behalf.

Bove described the chainsaw as having “two hooks, hand grips on each side.

“This is a weapon the defendant intended to use to perpetrate decapitation,” the prosecutor said.

While it wasn’t exactly clear why Alimehmeti referred to himself online as “The Dentist,” he used coded language about places he would travel to so that he could “brush his teeth,” according to court papers.

He also told undercover agents he watched beheading videos to keep himself motivated during exercise, prosecutors said.

Defense attorney Susan Kellman said her client struggled to fit in after moving to the US at age 6 from Albania and was radicalized as a teenager during a stint for robbery in the Fishkill Correctional Facility by Mohamed Mamdouh, one of the masterminds behind a foiled plot to blow up a Manhattan synagogue in 2011.

After his arrest in his latest case in 2016 and incarceration at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, Alimehmeti befriended another well-known terrorist — convicted “Chelsea bomber” Ahmad Rahimi.

The two later had to be separated for conspiring to distribute ISIS propaganda to other prisoners.

Almehmeti eventually pleaded guilty in the case in 2018, admitting to lying on his passport application and providing material support to ISIS.

Kellman described her client as being “young, confused, alienated, isolated and looking for a place” when he was lured in by ISIS and radical terrorist ideology. She noted that, despite the weapons, no plans for a terror attack were found in Alimehmeti’s home.

She added her client was so alone that the two undercover agents involved in the case were the only people invited to witness his wedding.

Alimehmeti declined to speak Friday but walked out of the courtroom with a big smile plastered across his face.