Terrorists of America: Lone wolves with a prophetic doctrine

Mohammed Al Aref

In the summer of 2017, what is known as the Daesh media office of the state of Al-Raqqa broadcast video of its fighters trapped inside the city during the battles with the Syrian democratic forces known as QSD, which included footage of foreign fighters as they confronted the attempts of the Syrian Democratic Forces to enter the city.

The most prominent shot was a child under the age of ten, suddenly appeared in front of the camera, while an Australian terrorist tells the story of the arrival of the child accompanied by his mother to the so-called “land of caliphate.”

The Australian terrorist revealed that the child was the son of an American veteran who participated in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but he and his mother were converted from Christians to Muslims, following the leader of the terrorist organization Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The American child was not the first US citizen involved in joining terrorist groups, and even the beginning of participation was through the US invasion of Afghanistan through John Walker Lind.

Lind was born in Washington in 1981 and was named after John Lennon, a famous Beatles member, raised in a Catholic family. He converted to Islam in 1997 and left the school at the age of 16 and moved to Yemen the following year to learn Arabic and then to Pakistan to study Islamic law in 2000. He was active in the Afghan Taliban movement and moved to Afghanistan in May 2001 to join the terrorist movement.

US forces arrested Lind after the invasion of Afghanistan shortly after the attacks of atheist of September 2001.

“If I knew what I knew now about the Taliban, I would not join them,” he said.

In a move that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo found disturbing and inaccurate, he said in an interview with Fox News that Lindh went out after 17 years in prison, but there are fears that he has not gotten rid of his extremism. The US government points to its continued tightening.

“It’s not regret, it’s a shift from allegiance to al-Qaeda,” said journalist Jim Wood of The Atlantic, who wrote letters to Linde.

Walker is not the only American who packed his bags and traveled to practice terrorism. Adam Yahya Ghaddan, known as Azzam al-Ameri, is the first citizen charged with treason since World War II. He is one of the most prominent jihadists who played after Osama bin Laden’s death.

Ghaddan was born to a Christian father who played rock, and at the age of 17 wrote a comment on a website at the University of Southern California announcing his conversion to Islam and his rejection of satanic rock music.

In 1998, he left the United States and traveled to Pakistan. As an English speaker and a prominent figure in Al-Qaeda, he was a high-ranking figure within global jihadist movements. He was involved in the al-Qaeda media and appeared in videotapes dressed in Afghan uniform warning Washington that it would face attacks unless al-Qaeda’s demands were met.

The US government has set a reward of $1 million.

The US Department of Justice said that three Americans of Somali origin in Minnesota were sentenced to conspiracy charges and due to supporting Daesh in Syria in 2014.

The United States did not prevent though the spread of extremist ideas, and the Orlando incident, which occurred on June 12, 2016, when 50 people were killed and 53 injured in the shooting at a nightclub for homosexuals in Orlando, Florida, was a mass genocide in the history of the country.

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According to an interview conducted at the end of March by Anna Sipkharad, director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism, and her colleague Ardian Shakovci, with Abu Henrique al-Kindi, one of the Daesh fighters, called for attacks within the United States by smuggling the organization’s fighters into the country.

The terrorist announced that the Daesh Security Bureau had drawn up the plan in full, with the help of an unknown American from New Jersey, and planned to smuggle US fighters from Syria to Mexico and exploit the US-Mexican border to enter the United States.

He said that he met with US fighters in the ranks of Daesh, including Abu Adam, a Bengali American who joined the organization, Abu Elias the American, the owner of the Turkish assets, who was killed in Baguoz, and other fighters in New York City.