“I didn’t see it coming at all. At all,” the lawyer, whose 17-year-old son was arrested in an FBI raid on charges of plotting a national terrorist attack, told The Daily Beast.
A prominent Philadelphia criminal defense attorney has confirmed that the terror suspect arrested by the FBI in an armed raid on his suburban home Monday is his 17-year-old son.
“The work of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force potentially thwarted a catastrophic terrorist attack in the name of a perverted ideology that in no way, shape, or form represents the beliefs of the overwhelming majority of peace-seeking people of faith, including Muslims,” the memo said.
Footage of the raid captured by local TV networks show two armored vehicles surrounding the home as armed FBI SWAT agents stood nearby. The suspect was brought out in “his underwear” according to one resident who spoke to“The degree of the response, again I was out when it happened, but seeing the pictures, they had armored vehicles and so forth. Seems like the FBI was preparing to experience some violent response or something,” one neighbor told the network.
“Investigators with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force were able to connect a Meta social media account that communicated with an account affiliated with KTJ in March and April of 2023 to the juvenile. A WhatsApp account linked to the juvenile’s phone number was also found by investigators to have a banner of Riyad-us-Saliheen Martyrs’ Brigade, a Chechnya-based terrorist group, as its profile photo.
“The young man who is under arrest… was an aspiring terrorist who was not merely thinking but was doing things that are deeply disturbing and presented a grave danger to everyone,” Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said at a press conference Monday.
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