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ISIS Supporter Talked About Times Square, Feds Say
Source: NBC News
NOV 21 2016, 3:07 PM ET
ISIS Supporter Talked About Times Square, Feds Say
by TOM WINTER and TRACY CONNOR
A New York City taxi driver was charged Monday with trying to join ISIS and expressing support for a Nice-style attack in Times Square.
The criminal complaint unsealed in federal court provides no indication that Mohamed Rafik Naji, a citizen of Yemen and legal resident of Brooklyn who drives for Uber, was actually planning an assault.
Naji, 37, began posting pro-ISIS content on Facebook in 2014 and in the spring of 2015 traveled to Yemen and Turkey in an effort to join the terrorist group, the criminal complaint alleges.
"We can't get in," he wrote in an email message to his girlfriend, then asked her to send him $2,000 for a plane ticket back home.
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ISIS Supporter Talked About Times Square, Feds Say
by TOM WINTER and TRACY CONNOR
A New York City taxi driver was charged Monday with trying to join ISIS and expressing support for a Nice-style attack in Times Square.
The criminal complaint unsealed in federal court provides no indication that Mohamed Rafik Naji, a citizen of Yemen and legal resident of Brooklyn who drives for Uber, was actually planning an assault.
Naji, 37, began posting pro-ISIS content on Facebook in 2014 and in the spring of 2015 traveled to Yemen and Turkey in an effort to join the terrorist group, the criminal complaint alleges.
"We can't get in," he wrote in an email message to his girlfriend, then asked her to send him $2,000 for a plane ticket back home.
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Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/isis-supporter-talked-about-times-square-feds-say-n686866