3 Arrested in New York, Florida in Plot to Join the Islamic State, Attack US

by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi • Feb 25, 2015 at 2:36 pm

Note at least one of the detained is a Kazakh citizen. The Islamic State has previously featured a video with Kazakh fighters and their whole families in Syria. He also intended to travel to Syria via Turkey, which remains an easy access route partly thanks to lack of proper oversight by Turkish airport authorities.

*** Three New York residents have been arrested for plotting to join extremists fighting in Syria and two threatened to carry out attacks within the United States, officials said Wednesday. Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, 24, Akhror Saidakhmetov, 19, and Abror Habibov, 30, have been charged with attempt and conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.The teenage Saidakhmetov, a Kazakh citizen, was arrested Wednesday at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport attempting to board a flight to Istanbul, before traveling onto Syria. US prosecutors said he recently expressed intent to buy a machine gun and shoot US police officers and FBI agents if thwarted in his plan to join the Islamic State group fighting in Syria.***