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Munther Omar Saleh, 21, of Queens, and Fareed Mumuni, 22, of Staten Island, were charged with "conspiring and attempting to provide material support" to ISIS and with assaulting and conspiring to assault federal officers, the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York said in a statement.
Mumuni also was charged with "attempted murder of federal officers." That charge resulted from an incident in which Mumuni repeatedly stabbed an FBI agent as law enforcement officials carried out a search warrant at his home about two years ago, officials said.
"From their respective homes in Queens and Staten Island, Saleh and Mumuni conspired to place a pressure cooker bomb in the New York metro area on behalf of ISIL," he said, using another term for ISIS.
"Saleh and Mumuni engaged in plotting attacks against New York City in the name of ISIL," New York Police Commissioner James P. O'Neill said. "They received instructions from senior ISIL leaders in Syria. They were committed to violence."
Funny how Obama and his allies insisted on claiming that there were no ISIS attacks in America. Or how the narrative is that this is homegrown terrorism. There's nothing "homegrown" about Islamic terror.
But at least Saleh's actions remind us of the importance of moderate Islam in countering Islamic radical extremism.
Investigators also said Saleh tweeted on Sept. 10, 2014, “i fear AQ could be getting too moderate” — referring to al-Qaeda.