NY Man Allegedly Offered To ‘Shoot Obama’ In Cheerful Message To ISIL

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A Brooklyn resident arrested for plotting to join the Islamic State cheerfully inquired in an online posting whether getting killed while shooting President Obama was sufficient to become a martyr, according to the charging documents released Wednesday by the Justice Department.

In the online posting that had echoes of a Monty Python sketch, 24-year-old Abdurasal Hasanovich Juraboev, a citizen of citizen of Uzbekistan, conceded he lacked for “any arms” with which to shoot the President, but wanted to know whether such an attack would prove him to be a “dedicated martyer.”

“What I am saying is, to shoot Obama and then get shot ourselves, will it do?” Juraboev allegedly wrote on Hilofatnews.com, which the Justice Department described as an “Uzbek language website that propagated ISIL’s ideology and called for its Uzbek-speaking audience to join ISIL.”

Here’s the posting, per the DOJ:

Juraboev allegedly admitted to federal law enforcement agents that he did write the message on Hilofatnews.com.

H/t Matt Apuzzo

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  1. Well, this ought to provide wingnuts with a conundrum: advocate violence against the President while supporting ISIL?

  2. Clearly this man has a career ahead of him as a Fox News White House correspondent.

  3. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    cheerfully

    St. Abdurasal the Armless, patron saint of cheery terror message boards.

  4. This internets bring out the best in people.

  5. This sounds like the scene in Borat where he was in the gun store asking whether a particular gun was good for shooting Jews. Are we confident this guy wasn’t just fucking with them for laughs?

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