Thread: North Carolina Teen Arrested In ISIS Terror Attack Plot

Posted: June 22, 2015

North Carolina Teen Arrested In ISIS Terror Attack Plot



A North Carolina teen was arrested for allegedly plotting an ISIS attack in America. Justin Nolan Sullivan, 19, was arrested by the FBI after his father reportedly tipped off the agency about “disturbing behavior.”

Justin Nolan Sullivan had a gun silencer in his possession when he was arrested for allegedly plotting an ISIS attack on Friday, according to the FBI. The North Carolina teenager allegedly asked another man to purchase the silencer for him — the man was an undercover FBI agent, arrest documents indicate.

The threat level Justin Sullivan posed remains unclear.

The ISIS lone wolf attack suspect allegedly said that he wanted to kill at least 1,000 people by setting off a “big vehicle bomb” or via the use of chemical weapons.

The North Carolina teen went unnoticed by the FBI until his father made a 911 call in April.

Justin Sullivan doused Buddha figures and other religious objects with gasoline and set them on fire, according to his father. Court documents in the North Carolina ISIS case state that the suspect’s father said the family was “scared to leave the house.”

During the 911 call, the teenager can reportedly be heard in the background asking, “Why are you trying to say I’m a terrorist?” Several weeks after the 911 tip to the FBI by the elder Sullivan, an undercover agent made contact with the teenager.

“I liked ISIS from the beginning, then I started thinking about death and stuff so I became a Muslim,” Justin Nolan Sullivan reportedly said to the undercover agent. According to the FBI, the North Carolina teenager also said he wanted to buy an “assault rifle” from the gun show in the state and “shoot people” on behalf of ISIS over the last weekend because his parents were going to be out of town. Sullivan was not able to purchase a rifle before his arrest.

Sullivan reportedly confessed to plotting an ISIS attack and told the FBI that he searched for possible targets on both the internet and in the Yellow Pages.

The teenager also allegedly asked the undercover agent to kill his parents.

“The war is here,” Justin Sullivan told the FBI agent, according to court documents. “[I am] a mujahid,” the teenager also reportedly said.

The silencer Sullivan purchased was allegedly for conducting “minor assassinations” for training purposes before a “big attack.” The North Carolina ISIS attack plotting suspect also reportedly said he was going to send a video to ISIS.

Do you think ISIS lone wolf attack plot arrests will increase in the future?

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Pretty scary stuff. This deranged teen said he was thinking of attacking a local bar or music concert when his parents were out of town. Morganton is a sleepy little town with a lot of NC mountains and foothills charm.

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Homegrown Radicals More Deadly Than Jihadis in U.S.

By SCOTT SHANE JUNE 24, 2015



Police officers outside a Walmart in Las Vegas after a shooting last year involving suspects with antigovernment and neo-Nazi views. Since Sept. 11, 2001, 48 people in the United States have been killed by non-Muslim extremists, compared with 26 by self-proclaimed jihadists, according to the research center New America.CreditSteve Marcus/Reuters


WASHINGTON — In the 14 years since Al Qaeda carried out attacks on New York and the Pentagon, extremists have regularly executed smaller lethal assaults in the United States, explaining their motives in online manifestoes or social media rants.

But the breakdown of extremist ideologies behind those attacks may come as a surprise. Since Sept. 11, 2001, nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics and other non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims: 48 have been killed by extremists who are not Muslim, including the recent mass killing in Charleston, S.C., compared with 26 by self-proclaimed jihadists, according to a count by New America, a Washington research center.

The slaying of nine African-Americans in a Charleston church last week, with an avowed white supremacist charged with their murders, was a particularly savage case.

But it is only the latest in a string of lethal attacks by people espousing racial hatred, hostility to government and theories such as those of the “sovereign citizen” movement, which denies the legitimacy of most statutory law. The assaults have taken the lives of police officers, members of racial or religious minorities and random civilians.

Non-Muslim extremists have carried out 19 such attacks since Sept. 11, according to the latest count, compiled by David Sterman, a New America program associate, and overseen by Peter Bergen, a terrorism expert. By comparison, seven lethal attacks by Islamic militants have taken place in the same period.

If such numbers are new to the public, they are familiar to police officers. A survey to be published this week asked 382 police and sheriff’s departments nationwide to rank the three biggest threats from violent extremism in their jurisdiction.

About 74 percent listed antigovernment violence, while 39 percent listed “Al Qaeda-inspired” violence, according to the researchers, Charles Kurzman of the University of North Carolina and David Schanzer of Duke University.

Homegrown Terrorism

In the United States since Sept. 11, terrorist attacks by antigovernment, racist and other nonjihadist extremists have killed nearly twice as many people as those by Islamic jihadists.

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Source: New America Foundation

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“Law enforcement agencies around the country have told us the threat from Muslim extremists is not as great as the threat from right-wing extremists,” said Dr. Kurzman, whose study is to be published by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security and the Police Executive Research Forum.
John G. Horgan, who studies terrorism at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, said the mismatch between public perceptions and actual cases had become steadily more obvious to scholars.
“There’s an acceptance now of the idea that the threat from jihadi terrorism in the United States has been overblown,” Dr. Horgan said. “And there’s a belief that the threat of right-wing, antigovernment violence has been underestimated.”
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Counting terrorism cases is a subjective enterprise, relying on shifting definitions and judgment calls.
If terrorism is defined as ideological violence, for instance, should an attacker who has merely ranted about religion, politics or race be considered a terrorist? A man in Chapel Hill, N.C., who was charged with fatally shooting three young Muslim neighbors had posted angry critiques of religion, but he also had a history of outbursts over parking issues. (New America does not include this attack in its count.)
Likewise, what about mass killings in which no ideological motive is evident, such as those at a Colorado movie theater and a Connecticut elementary school in 2012? The criteria used by New America and most other research groups exclude such attacks, which have cost more lives than those clearly tied to ideology.
Some killings by non-Muslims that most experts would categorize as terrorism have drawn only fleeting news media coverage, never jelling in the public memory. But to revisit some of the episodes is to wonder why.
In 2012, a neo-Nazi named Wade Michael Page entered a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and opened fire, killing six people and seriously wounding three others. Mr. Page, who died at the scene, was a member of a white supremacist group called the Northern Hammerskins.
In another case, in June 2014, Jerad and Amanda Miller, a married couple with radical antigovernment views, entered a Las Vegas pizza restaurant and fatally shot two police officers who were eating lunch. On the bodies, they left a swastika, a flag inscribed with the slogan “Don’t tread on me” and a note saying, “This is the start of the revolution.” Then they killed a third person in a nearby Walmart.
And, as in the case of jihadist plots, there have been sobering close calls. In November 2014 in Austin, Tex., a man named Larry McQuilliams fired more than 100 rounds at government buildings that included the Police Headquarters and the Mexican Consulate. Remarkably, his shooting spree hit no one, and he was killed by an officer before he could try to detonate propane cylinders he drove to the scene.
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Some Muslim advocates complain that when the perpetrator of an attack is not Muslim, news media commentators quickly focus on the question of mental illness. “With non-Muslims, the media bends over backward to identify some psychological traits that may have pushed them over the edge,” said Abdul Cader Asmal, a retired physician and a longtime spokesman for Muslims in Boston. “Whereas if it’s a Muslim, the assumption is that they must have done it because of their religion.”
On several occasions since President Obama took office, efforts by government agencies to conduct research on right-wing extremism have run into resistance from Republicans, who suspected an attempt to smear conservatives.
A 2009 report by the Department of Homeland Security, which warned that an ailing economy and the election of the first black president might prompt a violent reaction from white supremacists, was withdrawn in the face of conservative criticism. Its main author, Daryl Johnson, later accused the department of “gutting” its staffing for such research.
William Braniff, the executive director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland, said the outsize fear of jihadist violence reflected memories of Sept. 11, the daunting scale of sectarian conflict overseas and wariness of a strain of Islam that seems alien to many Americans.
“We understand white supremacists,” he said. “We don’t really feel like we understand Al Qaeda, which seems too complex and foreign to grasp.”
CONTINUE READING THE MAIN STORY672COMMENTSThe contentious question of biased perceptions of terrorist threats dates back at least two decades, to the truck bombing that tore apart the federal building in Oklahoma City in April 1995. Some early news media speculation about the attack assumed that it had been carried out by Muslim militants. The arrest of Timothy J. McVeigh, an antigovernment extremist, quickly put an end to such theories.
The bombing, which killed 168 people, including 19 children, remains the second-deadliest terrorist attack in American history, though its toll was dwarfed by the roughly 3,000 killed on Sept 11.
“If there’s one lesson we seem to have forgotten 20 years after Oklahoma City, it’s that extremist violence comes in all shapes and sizes,” said Dr. Horgan, the University of Massachusetts scholar. “And very often, it comes from someplace you’re least suspecting.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/us...or-threat.html

The New America, a Washington research center is full of crap. It is nothing but another George Soros propaganda machine.

The most death and destruction in America is being caused by illegal aliens that are killing thousands of our citizens each year due to Soros's influence over our government and the resulting paralysis of our laws designed to protect American lives.

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