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“Jihadist Forum Postings Lead to Guilty Plea”
by IPT News • Aug 9, 2011 at 4:41 pm
SNIPPET: “A Pennsylvania man who was “an active moderator” on an English-language jihadist web forum pleaded guilty Tuesday to soliciting people to carry out terrorist attacks within the United States and to a weapons charge.
Emerson Begolly, 22, faces up to five years in prison when he is sentenced in late November. His plea agreement is sealed, but according to the indictment, Begolly made a series of posts on the Ansar al-Mujahideen English-language forum starting in July 2010 which urged people to carry out terrorist attacks in the United States. He suggested targeting “police stations, post offices, synagogues, military facilities” and utilities.
“Too often prosecutions arise only after a perpetrator commits actions ending in tragedy,” said David J. Hickton, U.S. Attorney in Western Pennsylvania, in a statement. “On this occasion, I commend the FBI for taking proactive steps to protect the people of the United States before any such tragedy could occur.”
Begolly bit two FBI agents who tried to question him in January regarding his online solicitations. He also tried to draw a loaded handgun, which seemed to match the aggressive message in his Ansar al-Mujahideen posts.
“Peaceful protests do not work,” he wrote. “The kuffar see war as a solution to their problems, so we must see was as the solution to our[s]. No peace. But bullets, bombs and martyrdom operations.””
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/regional/s_750727.html
“Redbank jihadist’s plea deal sealed”
By Brian Bowling, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
SNIPPET: “Emerson Begolly, 22, of Redbank pleaded guilty in a Downtown courtroom to soliciting terrorist acts on a pro-jihad website and carrying a firearm during a scuffle with federal agents in January.
In an unusual move, U.S. District Judge Maurice Cohill sealed the plea agreement, on a joint request from U.S. Attorney David Hickton and Assistant Federal Public Defender Marketa Sims. Neither would discuss the terms of the agreement or the reason for the seal. The judge declined comment on why he agreed to the seal.
“The most frequent reason for (a seal) is that there is an ongoing investigation or informant relationship, or he’s giving assistance to the government,” said David Harris, a University of Pittsburgh law professor who studies federal criminal procedures.
Because this is a terrorism case, the seal could mean the document has national security information ...”