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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Wife went shopping for ammo with Orlando shooter

Noor Salman, the Islamic terrorist wife of Omar Mateen went shopping with her now dead

husband to buy ammo at a Walmart just before Omar went on his jihad at a nightclub in Orlando. He bought five containers of ammo, in fact, and this changes everything for Noor.

Salman insisted when she spoke to authorities that she had no idea about what her husband was planning to do.

Salman failed not one, nor two, but four lie detector tests and was also given an IQ test along with other psychological testing to determine her intelligence and state of mind before prosecutors had filed charges against her.

Now a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday charges her with aiding and abetting her husband's support of the Islamic State, along with obstruction of justice. She could get life behind bars if convicted.

Dead man texting

Salman was arrested Monday in her Rodeo, California home.

She had posted her support for ISIS on her social media account and the posts will be used in court.

The woman appeared nervous and spoke softly as she faced a non-Sharia judge in Oakland Tuesday. "She knew he was going to conduct the attack," federal prosecutor Roger Handberg (who used to get teased a lot as a kid) told the judge.

Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 in June last year. He was on a jihad mission to kill gays because homosexuality is forbidden and punished by death in the Koran. The massacre took place at the Pulse Nightclub, known for its gay clientele. 

And that's why they call it the religion of peace.


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Orlando nightclub jihadist's wife arrested by FBI

Noor Salman, the 30-year-old wife of Omar Mateen, who massacred 49 people and wounded dozens more last June at Orlando's Pulse Nightclub and was killed by police in a shootout, has been arrested in California, Brain Flushings has just learned. Mateen had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (aka ISIS).

The shooting is considered the deadliest in modern U.S. history.

The charges against the hijab-clad Noor Salman include aiding and abetting her husband's attempts to support ISIS and obstruction of justice. The U.S. Attorney in Florida along with Department of Justice attorneys wanted to charge Salman with material support of the terror group, but Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord refused to support additional charges, perhaps having a 'leftist moment' and feeling hasn't this poor girl suffered enough?

Salman was picked up at her home in Rodeo, California by FBI agents from the San Francisco bureau office. She didn't put up any resistance.

In April of last year, Salman and her now dead husband, Mateen, took their 3-year-old mini-jihadist son Walt Disney World, but they behaved suspiciously and Disney officials contacted the FBI to alert them that the pair appeared to be scouting the theme park as a venue for a future attack.

So the lovely couple and kid went to another Disney location, Disney Springs, in June.

On June 12, during the attack, Mateen placed 16 calls and used SMS to text. Three calls were to 911, one was to a local news service, at which time he did the ISIS pledge and said he supported the Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Mateen also texted Salman during his shooting rampage, posted to Facebook (possibly "unliking" a bunch of infidels, one can imagine) and again proclaimed his allegiance to the "Black Flag Insect Scumcrumpets" of ISIS, pledged more attacks, used SnapChat to communicate with at least one more person, and cancelled his dentist appointment (just kidding).

Salman is to make her first federal court appearance Tuesday in San Francisco. After the shooting she moved to Contra County. The charges were filed in Middle District of Florida, the same jurisdiction where the Pulse Nightclub massacre occurred. After the San Francisco appearance, she is due to fly back to Florida where she will continue through the judicial process.

The New York Times was the first to make the report.

Salman said in November that she didn't have a clue about what her now dead husband was planning. "I was unaware of everything." She also claimed that her husband became increasingly violent as their marriage got more and more explosive, even to the point in which she said he punched her in a fit of rage while she was pregnant, and they were out buying camouflaged baby clothes. The child is now four and is named after his mujahideen dad.

The DoJ released transcripts of Mateen's 911 calls after the shooting. In one call he said, "Praise be to Allah, and prayers as well as peace be upon the prophet of Allah. I let you know, I'm in Orlando and I did the shootings." All of this crap was said in Arabic, the language of Mohammed. 

So more is to follow about Salman and her case.




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