Florida jihadi pleads guilty in federal court for his loyalty to ISIS

A Tampa, Florida man named Muhammed Momtaz-Al-Azhari, 23, was arrested almost three years ago after he was deported from Saudi Arabia on terrorism charges, federal officials said. So instead of carrying out a terrorist attack there, he planned to carry an attack out in Tampa in the name of ISIS, the FBI said.

So today, Thursday, he is expected to plead guilty, as per court documents in this case.

The terrorist was arrested in May 2020. According to prosecutors, it is said that he admired the shooter at the Pulse nightclub and planned a similar attack in the Tampa Bay area, but wasn't smart enough to dodge the law.

He is a U.S. citizen and served three years in a Saudi prison for attempting to join a terrorist group, but evidently couldn't pass the cognitive test, not unlike a certain U.S. president. Al-Azhari was returned to the U.S. in 2018 and was on the FBI's radar after he tried to buy a pistol and a silencer on eBay, because he is so brilliant and wanted to save a few bucks.

Over the following month, the FBI kept watch on him as he purchased weapons, disguises [fake nose, eyebrows and mustache] and tactical gear. He was monitored while at home watching news clips about ISIS and vilifying the reporter. He even recited terrorist tropes and couldn't have made himself more suspicious had he flown an ISIS flag from his roof.

During one of the recorded conversations, the  'Billy Badass of East Tampa' said, "I want to die in a shootout with disbelievers. I want to take revenge," to a confidential informant. "I don't want to take [kill] four or five, I want to take at least fifty, like brother Omar Mateen in Orlando did."

The genius even went to the site of the Pulse shooting and was covertly accompanied by the FBI who watched him case the joint. 

He is definitely not the sharpest light in the drawer. At one point, Tampa PD arrested him for carrying a loaded gun at his job at Home Depot on North Florida Ave. But he was released after a naive judge ordered him not to possess weapons.

Conversations with confidential informants reveal that similar to Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, he was willing to kill women and children, saying, "We do not stop the bombing because of children in America."

The guy didn't like Americans but seemed to love America because he wouldn't leave. His hearing was to take place today at 11 a.m.

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