{"id":383392,"date":"2021-04-03T11:56:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T15:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=383392"},"modified":"2021-04-03T11:56:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T15:56:54","slug":"newlyweds-arrested-after-trying-to-board-cargo-ship-in-attempt-to-join-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newlyweds-arrested-after-trying-to-board-cargo-ship-in-attempt-to-join-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"Newlyweds Arrested After Trying To Board Cargo Ship In Attempt 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\">26<\/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%2Fnewlyweds-arrested-after-trying-to-board-cargo-ship-in-attempt-to-join-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=383392&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-459.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A newlywed couple was arrested Thursday after they expressed interest to undercover cops that they wanted to help the Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/04\/03\/feds-says-couple-tried-to-get-to-islamic-state-by-ship\/\">reported<\/a> that 20-year-old James Bradley and his wife, 29-year-old Arwa Muthana, were arrested at Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal in New Jersey, where they were trying to board a cargo ship that they believed would take them to Yemen, where they could assist ISIS terrorists. The couple was charged with \u201cattempting and conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from the AP:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"22.446100917431\">\n<p><em>Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said in a statement that the couple\u2019s \u201cplans to wage attacks against the United States have been thwarted.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bradley, of the Bronx, expressed support for IS and spoke of his desire to join the group overseas in recorded conversations over the course of nearly a year with an undercover enforcement officer, prosecutors said. Bradley also spoke to the undercover officer who led him to the ship about potentially attacking the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, prosecutors said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A complaint&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/press-release\/file\/1382551\/download\">outlining the charges<\/a>&nbsp;against Bradley and Muthana does not mention the defendants discussing their intentions with IS or others beyond the two undercover law enforcement officers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bradley sought transit to the Middle East by cargo ship because he feared he might have been on a terrorist watch list, prosecutors said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The couple was married in January and had both previously expressed interest in assisting ISIS. Bradley in 2019 had made plans to travel to Afghanistan to attack American soldiers on behalf of the Taliban, but scrapped the plans due to ideological differences with the person who was supposed to go with him. That person was eventually arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Muthana also previously discussed assisting ISIS with Bradley, even planning to travel together in their quest. When she was arrested, the AP reported, \u201cshe waived her right to remain silent and said she was willing to fight and kill Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter traveling to Alabama to visit Muthana, prosecutors said, Bradley approached the undercover officer with the idea of traveling on a cargo ship to join IS. The officer connected Bradley with a \u2018facilitator\u2019 \u2014 another undercover officer \u2014 and Bradley paid that person $1,000 in cash for travel costs, prosecutors said,\u201d the AP reported. \u201cBradley told that officer that he and Muthana planned to be \u2018fighting\u2019 upon arrival Yemen and that he\u2019d had a dream that he had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/808e1f546b9c480e9aca6e80a46734ea\">given an oath of allegiance<\/a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;IS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi&nbsp;prosecutors said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Strauss\u2019 full statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p><em>James Bradley allegedly pledged devout allegiance to ISIS, expressing his desire to \u2018fight among the rank[s] for the Islamic State.\u2019 Suspecting he may be unable to travel, Bradley instead allegedly discussed conducting terrorist attacks along with his wife, Arwa Muthana, also an ISIS supporter, against the US Military Academy at West Point or another area university where Bradley knew military recruits to be training. But in an alleged attempt to evade the watchful eye of law enforcement, the two ultimately planned to travel to Yemen by cargo ship to fulfil their wish to fight with the terrorist organization. As Bradley suspected, he and his wife were indeed on law enforcement\u2019s radar \u2013 he was confiding in and planning their journey for terror with an undercover officer \u2013 and their plans to wage attacks against the United States have been thwarted.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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