THE TERRORISM NEWSLETTER
Domestic
Terrorism
July 26, 2019
[SDNY] Delowar Mohammed Hossain from Bronx, NY, was
arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport while allegedly
attempting to travel to Afghanistan to join the Taliban in order to kill
Americans. He was charged with attempting to provide material support to
terrorism. Beginning in the fall of 2018, Hossain expressed his desire to
join the Taliban and fight against American forces. Over the months that
followed, Hossain attempted to recruit a confidential source of the FBI
("CS-1") to travel with him from the United States to Pakistan,
and then to cross the border into Afghanistan to join the Taliban.
July 24, 2019
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement
and Removal Operations (ERO) officers removed Mehmet Hakan Atilla, a
Turkish national convicted in the United States District Court, Southern
District of New York (SDNY) of conspiracy, bank fraud, and money
laundering, in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers
Act (IEEPA). On Sept. 18, 2018, an immigration judge in New York granted
the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor's (OPLA) Motion for a
Stipulated Removal Order and Waiver of Hearing, based on Atilla's
admission of the factual allegations and the concession to the charges.
He was ordered removed from the United States to Turkey.
July 22, 2019
[NDFL] Pensacola resident James P. Meharg, 59, CEO and
president of Turbine Resources International, LLC, was charged in a
five-count indictment of conspiring with citizens of the United Kingdom
and Iran to export a large turbine and parts from the United States to an
Iranian recipient, in violation of the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions
Regulations as well as federal criminal law.
International
Terrorism
July 25, 2019
Wednesday's bombing in the Somali capital that killed
seven people was a rare instance of al-Shabaab using a female suicide
bomber, the extremist group and Somali officials have said. While initial
reports indicated that a male suicide bomber had targeted the Mogadishu
mayor's office, the Associated Press reported on Thursday that the
attacker had been confirmed as a woman. The death toll for the bombing
rose to seven on Thursday, with the seriously wounded Mayor Abdirahman
Omar Osman left in a coma.
July 24, 2019
A Croatian soldier serving in Afghanistan died and two
were seriously injured in a suicide attack on their convoy outside the
capital of Kabul on Wednesday, authorities said. It was the first
Croatian fatality in Afghanistan since the former Yugoslav republic and
NATO member deployed troops there in 2003. Wednesday's attack, claimed by
Taliban militants, came as United States and Taliban officials prepare to
hold an eighth round of peace talks in Qatar this week, in a bid to end
the 18-year-old Afghan war.
July 23, 2019
A deadly cathedral bombing in the Philippines in
January was a suicide attack carried out by an Indonesian couple who once
tried to reach Islamic State territory and were deported from Turkey, the
Indonesian police said on Tuesday. The married couple, identified as
Rullie Rian Zeke and Ulfah Handayani Saleh, went to Turkey in 2016 with
hopes of crossing the border into Syria, the police said. Instead, they
were arrested in January 2017 and sent back to Indonesia.
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