East Elmhurst<\/a> man was convicted by a jury on Friday, Oct. 24, in Brooklyn federal court of conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).<\/p>\nAbdullah At Taqi, 26, was found guilty on all three counts of an indictment charging him and co-defendant Mohammad David Hashimi with conspiring and attempting to provide support to the designated foreign terrorist organization and conspiring to launder money. The defendants collectively sent thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency and wire transfers to a self-proclaimed ISIS member.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe defendants used Bitcoin. PayPal and GoFundMe to fund ISIS\u2019s deadly mission,\u201d U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Joseph Nocella said. \u201cISIS relies on supporters, like the defendants, to sponsor its terrorist aims, which is why our office and our law enforcement partners are working tirelessly to disrupt that pipeline and prosecute those who provide material support to terrorist organizations and their evildoers.\u201d<\/p>\n
As proven at trial, At Taqi sent 15 separate Bitcoin transactions to Osama Obieda, also known as Osama Abu Obayda, a self-proclaimed ISIS member, over the course of nearly a year, in conversations with an online confidential source, At Taqi stated that he used cryptocurrency to send money \u201cunnoticed\u201d through a \u201cbrother,\u201d meaning an ISIS supporter whom he spoke to on an encrypted communications platform. Taqi confirmed that the \u201cbrother\u201d was \u201cfrom Dawlah,\u201d referring to ISIS. The brother in question was Obeida, whom At Taqi introduced to the confidential source. Obeida confided to the confidential source that he had known At Taqi for two years and that he regularly sent money to Obeida. Obeida sent the confidential source a photograph of an ISIS flag and weapons with a screen name and the date to prove that the photo was recent and authentic, and that donations to Obeida were used to buy weapons for ISIS fighters. Other messages show Obeida instructing At Taqi to delete messages and change his IP address.<\/p>\n
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An ISIS member sent a photo of an ISIS flag with weapons and ammo as proof the donations were used to arm mujahideen fighters.Photo courtesy of DOJ<\/p>\n
Hashimi, 38, of Potomac Falls, Virginia, was a member of a group chat for ISIS supporters on an encrypted platform. In early April 2021, the chat group discussed posting links that purported to be raising funds for humanitarian causes, but from which the money would actually be diverted to help the \u201cMujahideen,\u201d an Arabic term used by ISIS supporters to refer to ISIS fighters. A co-conspirator posted a Bitcoin address, and another member of the chat group posted a link to a PayPal campaign, both of which were controlled by Obeida. In response, Hashimi told people to be careful sending links because they could be detected and arrested by law enforcement.<\/p>\n
Through a combination of Bitcoin, PayPal, and GoFundMe, the defendants transferred thousands of dollars to Obeida. At Taqi, Hashimi, and a third co-defendant, Seema Rahman, 28, of Edison, N.J., along with another co-conspirator, Khalilullah Yousuf, contributed more than $24,000 to Obeida\u2019s Bitcoin address.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe NYPD will stop at nothing to protect New Yorkers from the dangers of ISIS and terrorists who seek to harm our country,\u201d NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. \u201cThese defendants used a variety of online platforms in an attempt to covertly send thousands of dollars to ISIS members to purchase weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n
When they are sentenced, At Taqi and Hashimi face up to 60 years in federal prison.
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\u201cToday\u2019s conviction demonstrates the NYPD\u2019s expertise and commitment to rooting out terrorism and the importance of our partnership with the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office and the FBI to stop these dangerous individuals,\u201d Tisch said.<\/p>\n
Rahman pleaded guilty in January to conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and is awaiting sentencing. Yousuf was arrested and prosecuted in Canada. Nocella thanked the FBI\u2019s New York Joint Terrorism Task Force for their work on the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbdullah At Taqi and Mohammed Hashimi knowingly donated thousands of dollars to an ISIS member through various cryptocurrency exchanges, wire transfers, and purported humanitarian fundraisers,\u201d FBI Assistant Director in Charge Christopher Raia said. \u201cThe defendants\u2019 actions potentially facilitated the purchase of explosives and ammunition by a designated terrorist organization. May today\u2019s conviction emphasize the FBI\u2019s stout determination to cease all funding of terrorists to ensure their malevolent ideologies are never brought to fruition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An East Elmhurst man was found guilty in Brooklyn federal court for providing material support to ISIS. QNS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[13056,98,100,99,3534,13057,13058,13059,9,24,63,13060,13061,13062,13063,13064],"class_list":{"0":"post-19061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-abdullah-at-taqi","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-federal-court","13":"tag-isis","14":"tag-khalilullah-yousuf","15":"tag-mohammad-david-hashimi","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nypd-commissioner-jessica-tisch","20":"tag-osama-abu-obayda","21":"tag-osama-obieda","22":"tag-seema-rahman","23":"tag-u-s-attorney-for-the-eastern-district-of-new-york-joseph-nocella"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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