Three teens from different states were planning mass murders at Chicago-area and Shia mosques and synagogues, all in the name of ISIS (Islamic State).
Daily Mail An 18-year-old Maine man and two other teens, one in Chicago and another in Kentucky, conspired to attack a Chicago mosque with homemade explosives this month, new court documents reveal – until the FBI unraveled the plot. The teens, agents said, concocted a scheme to massacre worshippers at the Shia mosque in the name of ISIS.
The recently unsealed federal filing alleges that Xavier Pelkey of Waterville and two teens, who were not named in court papers because they are juveniles, communicated through Instagram and other platforms to plot the attack.
Pelkey, who was using the pseudonym “Abdullah,” told the teens that he would buy guns, ammunition and had built a homemade explosive device to “get more people,” court papers state. He also told agents he ‘wanted to die fighting for Allah’ and then being shot by police. Feds also recovered an ISIS flag from Pelkey’s apartment, photos show.
They planned to, “enter the Shia mosque and separate the adults from the children, then murder the adults. If they had not encountered law enforcement at that point, they would continue on to another Shia mosque or Jewish synagogue and execute the same plan,” the FBI declaration says.
In messages sent to the two informants, Abdullah wrote about ‘potentially moving on to another mosque or synagogue and doing the same thing,’ federal prosecutors said during the February hearing, The Chicago Tribune reported at the time.
However, it was foiled by federal investigators last month after a search of Pelkey’s apartment turned up three homemade explosives, which feds say the group planned to use in the bombing.
The filing reveals that Pelkey’s underage accomplices in the plot also were arrested and questioned. According to agents, upon being interrogated, the teen in Chicago told feds the plan was to ‘enter the Shia mosque and separate the adults from the children, then murder the adults’ – all in the name of the radical terror group.
Details of the arrest and some of the teens’ blood-curdling scheme were reported in part following Pelkey’s arrest February 11, but the new filing, unsealed Friday, revealed the involvement of the other teens and their alleged connection to the Islamic State.
Following his arrest, Pelkey, who went by the online alias ‘Abdullah’ in messages compiled by the FBI, was charged in federal court in Bangor, Maine, with one count of possession of an unregistered destructive device, court records show. If convicted, he could face up to 10 years in prison, as well as a $250,000 fine.
However, the information in the new filing makes it likely that Pelkey and his two alleged accomplices could face conspiracy to commit murder charges, which means the suspects are facing life sentences. The ages of the two unnamed teens are still unknown, but the severity of that charge likely would see them tried as adults.
According to filing, the devices found in the Maine man’s backpack, were made out of bundles of fireworks taped together. The homemade bombs also were filled with staples, pins and thumbtacks, which were ‘designed to increase the amount of shrapnel propelled by an explosion if the devices were detonated’, it said. The weapons’ construction, feds said, indicated the bombs were specifically designed as weapons, according to a FBI bomb technician.
The filing said that Abdullah, when confronted by agents at his home, ‘told us he had “fireworks” in the apartment. ‘After we found the three devices described above,’ an agent wrote, ‘I asked him why the fireworks were taped together.’ In response, he reportedly said, ‘To make a bigger boom,’ the affidavit reads.
No surprise, CAIR’s main concern is a potential spike in “Islamophoiba” likely to occur because of media coverage of this incident.
Cleavis W Nowell says
Just dump the punk moslems in Cuba and let a competing ideology dispose of them 1
Phillip says
More non-molested boys causing trouble, I see.
Give them an hour alone with a priest and there would be no more terrorists.
donnaofhouseiehoshua says
The alphabet security agencies we are taught are here to protect us are even more corrupt than the so-called terrorists they claim to find. The FBI have been caught before trying to set up people to take the blame for terrorist acts so that their masters (the supra wealthy elite) can claim to have a reason to disarm us or take away more rights.
BareNakedIslam says
So, you are defending Muslim terrorists on a site like this?
ME Infidel says
Ghulam, CAIR and all apologists for Islam, here’s Robert Spencer’s take who knows a bit about Islam:
https://robertspencer.org/2022/03/did-anti-muslim-bigots-really-plot-to-blow-up-a-chicago-mosque
BareNakedIslam says
The non-Muslim sounding name of the ringleader didn’t fool me for minute. They did it in the name of Islam, that’s all I had to hear.
mjazzguitar says
Yet they knew about the planned attack on Pamela Geller and did nothing to stop it.
BareNakedIslam says
Yes, thankfully, the local Texas police were locked and loaded there.
Dan says
He’s skipped the tutorial and gone straight into game mode.
Charles Black says
A shame those 3 aren’t taking a permanent dirt nap if you ask me.
allanivarsson says
Charles Black, agreed.
Az gal says
Most normal young boys aspire to be sports stars or maybe engineers. Musscum boys dream of blowing up people as jihadists- especially Jews & assorted “infidels”. Not normal in the head.
Ghulam says
White suburban teenagers finding any excuse to mock Islam because they’re bored.
To Mr. Pelkey/Abdullah
You say you want to follow Islam, congratulations. Now please learn to follow our other teachings such as peace, compassion, humanity, love, charity, and sacrifice for a greater cause.
But you want to directly operate in Jihad mode without bothering to learn what Jihad is about. When you play a video game,do you directly start at Level 28 without learning the 1st level controls?
allanivarsson says
Ghulam, good point, but at the end of the day, fanatics will rise up the ladder and still choose insane ‘Jihad’ tactics… because the Qur’an encourages it against all infidels.
Who in Islam will have the courage to ban ‘Blasphemy Law’ and eliminate all ‘Satanic Verses’ in the Koran?
These three snakes did not make it up the ladder they slid down and hopefully will get life imprisonment.
Ten years in jail will not protect society. They will come out of jail more dangerous.