{"id":2131252,"date":"2023-12-21T19:48:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T00:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colorado-muslim-man-charged-for-attempts-to-join-terrorist-group-isis\/"},"modified":"2023-12-21T19:53:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T00:53:21","slug":"colorado-muslim-man-charged-for-attempts-to-join-terrorist-group-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colorado-muslim-man-charged-for-attempts-to-join-terrorist-group-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim man in Colorado charged for attempting to join ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcolorado-muslim-man-charged-for-attempts-to-join-terrorist-group-isis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2131252&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Denver \u2063International\u2064 Airport\u2063 on February 22, 2023 in\u2062 Denver,\u2064 Colorado. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/brooke-mallory\">Brooke \u200dMallory<\/a><br \/>4:20 PM \u2063\u2013 Thursday, December \u206421, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>A man was charged\u200b on Monday with attempting to help terrorists\u200d after he allegedly planned to travel to\u200d the Middle East in order to become a soldier for the\u200d Islamic State terrorist group ISIS. <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The defendant, Humzah Mashkoor, 18, of Westminster, \u200bColorado, was charged\u2062 in a criminal complaint\u2064 filed in U.S. District Court in Colorado with knowingly providing \u200bor attempting and conspiring to provide \u2064material support to a foreign terrorist organization. <\/p>\n<p>An FBI agent\u2019s narrative included\u2062 in the criminal\u2063 complaint alleged \u200dthat Mashkoor, who born in the United States but was raised in part in his\u2063 family\u2019s native country\u2063 Afghanistan, desperately\u200c wanted to return to fight for the Islamic State \u200bgroup.<\/p>\n<p>As part of an alleged plot to\u200b return to Afghanistan\u200b and meet \u200dwith ISIS \u201cbrothers,\u201d he was detained by FBI agents on Monday at the Denver International Airport \u2063while\u200d attempting to board a flight to the United\u200c Arab Emirates,\u200b according to the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>The court document went\u200c on to say that\u2063 Mashkoor was brought to the bureau\u2019s attention \u2062in 2021 when a social media platform notified the agency of a post made \u200dby the accused that showed sympathy \u2063for the \u2063terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>A \u2062relative of \u200dhis informed authorities that Mashkoor had assaulted him in July 2022 and also said \u200bthat\u2062 the 18-year-old \u201cwanted to\u200b kill people and cut their heads\u2063 off,\u201d as per the\u2062 court record.<\/p>\n<p>Police\u2063 were also informed\u2062 by a different\u200b relative that Mashkoor \u201cstruggled from mental illness \u2062and had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/father-considers-lawsuit-against-gender-clinic-for-affirming-9-year-old-autistic-son-as-transgender-lesbian\/\" title=\"Father Considers Lawsuit Against Gender Clinic For Affirming 9-Year-Old Autistic Son As Transgender Lesbian\">high-functioning autism<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According \u2063to\u200c the complaint, he then began corresponding online in September\u2064 2022 with\u200b an FBI agent who was\u2063 impersonating an ISIS supporter.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint goes on to say that the agent\u2063 and others acting as ISIS sympathizers spoke with the Mashkoor between then and all the \u2062way\u2062 until Monday this week, \u200crecording his purported \u200bgoals.<\/p>\n<p>Another time, Mashkoor allegedly corresponded with two actual ISIS followers \u200cwho \u200dthe FBI says were connected to\u2064 real-life terrorists, one of whom had been found guilty of engaging in terrorism-related\u200d activities \u200cabroad.<\/p>\n<p>According to the charging documents, he considered remaining in the country to \u200cassist ISIS in carrying out a future domestic attack. Mashkoor stated that \u2063the suggestion \u201cwas something I considered as a last effort,\u201d and that particular message came from an \u200bonline conversation thread with the phony ISIS members.<\/p>\n<p>Mashkoor also allegedly entertained the\u200c notion that he could be utilized \u200cas a \u200dsuicide bomber as\u2062 soon as he met\u2064 up with the extremist Islamic soldiers after his flight to the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, prosecutors said that although \u2062he had no \u200dconnections in Syria, he\u2064 considered\u2064 traveling there rather than Afghanistan. He had \u2062also communicated that he\u200b wished to find a wife during his travels.<\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint, the defendant considered transferring money\u200d to ISIS using cryptocurrency methods, but he struggled to figure out \u2062a way to do so covertly. After\u200c turning\u2064 eighteen,\u200d Mashkoor sought a relative\u2019s assistance in getting their name taken off his bank account so he could proceed with the bitcoin scheme without them knowing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cShe cried a little after \u2063I changed the stuff, and then she said, \u2018You are not allowed to \u200dsend money to any bad people,&#8217;\u201d said Mashkoor\u200b to \u2062the \u2063undercover agent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u200cdefendant \u2062also went on \u2064to express, \u201cI can\u2019t stand another day of humiliation living in dar\u2063 ul kuf,\u201d and the term\u200b \u201cdar ul kuf\u201d\u200b refers to \u200dany region of the \u2062world\u200b where the majority of its population is not\u2062 Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>Mashkoor was\u2062 taken into custody by FBI officers at Denver International \u200bAirport on Monday, shortly\u200c after 9:30 a.m. The lawsuit states that they later searched \u200bhis Westminster, Colorado, residence and discovered numerous journal entries.<\/p>\n<p>Westminster is\u2063 located roughly 20 miles north of\u2063 Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Mashkoor appeared in \u2064federal\u2062 court on Friday. His legal representation was\u200c not immediately apparent, and a\u200c request for comment\u2064 from the federal public defender in Colorado was\u200d not immediately answered.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! Receive breaking news \u200dblasts directly to \u2063your inbox \u2062for free. Subscribe here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"rc-widget-10bad2\" data-rc-widget data-widget-host=\"habitat\" data-endpoint=\"\/\/trends.revcontent.com\" data-widget-id=\"278641\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> \t\t \t\tShare this post!\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><h3>Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz explains that states can now use\u200b the Colorado\u200d State Supreme Court\u2019s ruling booting former President Donald Trump from the ballot as the \u200dprecedent to do\u2064 so themselves. 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One America\u2019s Taylor Tinsley has more.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><h3>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/economic-update-gdp-revised-down-to-4-9-in-q3\/\" title=\"GDP in Q3 revised down to 4.9% in economic update\">latest economic update<\/a>, our \u200dGDP, encompassing all the goods and services we produce, increased\u200b by 4.9% in\u2063 Q3 this \u2064year, revised down from\u200c the initial 5.2%. <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><h3>During President\u200b Biden\u2019s meeting with China\u2019s Xi Xinping last month, the Chinese\u2063 leader \u200callegedly told \u200bhim China \u2064still intends \u200con\u2064 taking Taiwan.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><h3>One \u200bof the main bottlenecks for Tesla is the speed it can make the 4680\u2062 batteries\u2063 used in the\u200d Cybertruck\u200b with its new dry-coating technology.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><h3>A group\u2062 of 11 nonfiction\u2063 authors have joined a \u2063lawsuit in Manhattan federal court\u200b that \u2063accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of misusing books the authors have \u2063written to train \u200btheir\u200d models.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><h3>San Francisco police Sergeant David Radford contacted\u200b Tesla \u200cabout data on an alleged stalker\u2019s remote\u200c access to a vehicle.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><h3>Google will pay $700 million\u2062 and \u200brevamp its Play app store to allow for greater competition as\u2063 part of an antitrust settlement \u200dwith U.S.\u2063 states and consumers.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2> What were the alleged intentions\u200c and plans of \u200dMashkoor in relation \u2064to assisting ISIS?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Title:\u2063 Colorado Man Charged\u200b with Attempting to Aid ISIS: A Disturbing Tale of Radicalization<\/p>\n<p>Introduction<\/p>\n<p>In a shocking turn of events, an 18-year-old Colorado man named Humzah Mashkoor has been charged with attempting to help terrorists\u200d after allegedly planning to travel to the Middle East in order to join the ranks of the notorious terrorist \u2062group ISIS. Mashkoor, who was \u2062born in the \u200cUnited States but spent \u200dpart of his\u2064 life in his family&#8217;s native country of Afghanistan, was detained\u200b by FBI agents at the Denver International Airport while attempting to \u200bboard a flight to the \u200bUnited Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Background<\/p>\n<p>The criminal\u200d complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Colorado accuses Mashkoor of knowingly\u200c providing or attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. According to an \u2063FBI\u2063 agent&#8217;s \u2063narrative included \u2064in the complaint, Mashkoor expressed a strong desire to fight for the Islamic State group and plotted to return\u200b to Afghanistan to meet with ISIS members.<\/p>\n<p>Investigation\u200d and Arrest<\/p>\n<p>Mashkoor first came to the attention of\u200c authorities in 2021 when\u200d a social media\u2063 platform\u2062 alerted the FBI to a \u200cpost in which Mashkoor showed sympathy\u200d for the \u200bterrorist organization. A relative of his also reported an\u200c incident in which Mashkoor assaulted him in July 2022 and stated that Mashkoor had expressed a desire to kill people and decapitate them. Additionally, another \u200crelative informed the police that Mashkoor struggled with mental illness\u2064 and had high-functioning autism.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI subsequently began corresponding with\u200d Mashkoor online, posing as an ISIS supporter. The criminal complaint states that Mashkoor engaged in\u200c conversations with the \u2062FBI agent and other individuals posing as \u200dISIS sympathizers,\u2064 recording his\u200d purported goals. He also corresponded with two actual ISIS followers with connections to real-life terrorists, one of whom had\u200d been found\u2063 guilty of engaging in terrorism-related activities abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Allegations and Future Plans<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063charging\u2064 documents claim that Mashkoor\u200b considered\u2064 an array of options to assist ISIS, including\u200c remaining in\u200d the United States to \u2064carry\u2062 out a domestic attack and becoming \u2064a suicide bomber upon reaching the\u2063 Middle\u2063 East. While he initially contemplated traveling to Syria, Mashkoor later expressed a \u2064desire to go to Afghanistan instead.\u2062 Furthermore, he mentioned his intention \u2062of finding\u2062 a \u2062wife during his travels.<\/p>\n<p>The court documents also \u2063reveal\u200b that the defendant considered using cryptocurrency methods to transfer money to ISIS but struggled to find a covert way to do\u200d so. \u2064After turning eighteen, he sought his \u2064relative&#8217;s assistance \u2064in removing their name from his bank account \u2062to proceed\u200d with the bitcoin \u200cscheme without\u200b their knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Arrest and Legal Proceedings<\/p>\n<p>Mashkoor was apprehended by FBI officers at Denver International Airport \u2063on Monday following \u2064his failed attempt \u2064to board a flight. Subsequent searches of his residence in Westminster, Colorado, revealed numerous journal entries. Westminster, \u2063located approximately 20 miles north \u200dof Denver, is where \u200dMashkoor resided.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>The arrest of Humzah Mashkoor highlights the ongoing\u2062 challenge \u200cof radicalization and the extent to which extremist ideologies can \u2064influence vulnerable individuals. This case underscores\u2063 the importance of continued vigilance and collaboration between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-governor-encourages-people-to-call-police-on-neighbors-violating-covid-orders\/\" title=\"Oregon Governor Encourages People To Call Police On Neighbors Violating COVID Orders\">law enforcement agencies<\/a> and\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platforms<\/a> in identifying and \u200bpreventing acts of terrorism. As the legal \u2063proceedings unfold, \u200dit remains paramount to ensure that justice is \u2063served, and that further \u200bmeasures \u200bare taken to address the root causes\u2062 of radicalization\u200d in order to safeguard society against \u200bfuture threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was charged on Monday for aiding terrorists after planning to join the Islamic State as a soldier in the Middle East. The incident occurred at Denver International Airport on February 22, 2023. 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