The Garland, Texas attack on Pam Geller’s “Draw Muhammed” contest was the first indicator that we had to worry about threats from ISIS in the homeland, even though the media and others ignored it and blamed Pamela rather than the terrorists. Well it looks like it wasn’t a “lone wolf” attack, as a third man is charged with aiding the terrorists and making other plans for attacks on Americans.
From NBC News:
An Arizona man already accused of helping plan an attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas in the spring also planned to fight with ISIS and inquired about explosives to attack a Super Bowl game, an indictment states.
The document released Wednesday charges Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
Prosecutors allege he researched traveling to the Middle East to fight alongside the group and inquired about the types of explosives that would be needed to blow up a mall and the stadium in Phoenix where the 2015 Super Bowl was held.
Kareem’s attorney, Daniel Maynard, didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment on Thursday.
Kareem is accused of researching the trip and seeking the pipe bomb information with Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, who were killed in a May 3 shootout with police outside the cartoon contest in Garland, Texas.
An earlier indictment accused Kareem of providing the guns used in that attack, hosting the gunmen in his home to discuss the contest, and practicing shooting with Simpson and Soofi in the desert outside Phoenix.
The new charge alleges he encouraged Simpson and Soofi to carry out violence in the United States in support of ISIS and impose retribution for U.S. military actions in the Middle East.
A section of the indictment describing Simpson and Soofi’s trip to the cartoon contest says they were carrying a printed paper version of the Islamic State flag.
And, not surprisingly, he was a lazy scumbag who couldn’t even work to support terrorism, so he was a scam artist as well:
In a bizarre turn, authorities say Kareem faked having being struck by a car in a parking lot and later tried to make an insurance claim in a scheme intended to support the conspiracy.
So in other words, probably a Democrat.
Here’s a report from a month ago on Abdul Kareem: