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Monday 6 October 2014
Chicago man charged with attempt to join Islamic State
CHICAGO ― Federal agents have charged a 19-
year-old man from a Chicago suburb with
attempting to travel to Syria to join the terrorist
group Islamic State.
Agents arrested Mohammed Hamza Khan at
10:30 p.m. Saturday at Chicago's O'Hare
International Airport as he was about to board
a flight to Vienna en route to Turkey. A criminal
complaint alleges that Khan, who appeared in
court Monday, intended to travel by bus to a
transit point where he would meet an Islamic
State contact who would get him into Syria.
Khan, a U.S. citizen from the southwest Chicago
suburb of Bolingbrook, is charged with
attempting to provide material support to
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which is
also known as ISIL and ISIS, according to a
criminal complaint filed Monday in U.S. District
Court in Chicago.
Federal prosecutor Matthew Hiller did not say
during Khan's initial court appearance how
authorities were tipped off about Khan's
intentions.
Federal agents who searched the home where
Khan lived with his parents and siblings found
several handwritten documents expressing
support for the Islamic State, FBI special agent
Dana McNeal said in an affidavit filed in court
Monday. One notebook appeared to contain a
"to do" list, including purchasing a $4,000 ticket
to Istanbul and having cash for a hotel in
Istanbul and a bus ride to cities near the Syrian
border.
Agents said they also recovered a letter to
Khan's parents explaining his travel and asking
that they not contact authorities. In a car used
by Khan but owned by his father, agents said
they found a notebook with words and symbols
referring to ISIL.
"FIRST and FOREMOST, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO
NOT TELL THE AUTHORITIES For if this were to
happen it will jeopardize not only the safety of
us but our family as well," the letter addressed
to Khan's parents said.
After explaining his reasons for traveling to
Syria, including his distress at having to pay
taxes that would support the killing of his
"Muslim brothers and sisters," Khan invited his
family "to join me in the Islamic State," the
criminal complaint said.
He also allegedly wrote: "We are all witness that
the western societies are getting more immoral
day by day. I do not want my kids being
exposed to filth like this ... "
Khan's parents attended Monday's hearing.
They declined to speak with reporters.
FBI agents who questioned Khan at the airport
said he acknowledged making contact online
with a person, unnamed in the complaint, who
gave him the name of a contact who was to take
him to ISIL after he arrived in Turkey. Khan told
FBI agents he planned to assist ISIL in some
type of public service such as a police force,
humanitarian work or a combat role, the
affidavit said.
Khan will appear again in court Thursday to
determine whether he will be held in jail or
released on bail.
If convicted, Khan could be sentenced to 15
years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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