FBI: Milwaukee man planned mass shooting at Masonic temple

[Sdiver]

Stay vigilant Brothers ....
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FBI: Milwaukee man planned mass shooting at Masonic temple

(CNN)A 23-year-old Milwaukee resident charged with illegally possessing machine guns had planned a massacre at a Masonic temple in the city, federal officials said Tuesday.

Samy Mohamed Hamzeh was arrested Monday after buying two automatic weapons and a silencer from undercover agents, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin said in a statement.

The investigation thwarted an attack "that could have resulted in significant injury and/or loss of life," FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert J. Shields said in the statement announcing the arrest.

It was not immediately clear whether Hamzeh has retained legal representation.

A criminal complaint released by prosecutors alleges that Hamzeh toured a Masonic center in Milwaukee earlier this month with two FBI informants and then detailed plans for an attack in a meeting with them later that night.

Hamzeh allegedly said he was defending Islam and that he hoped to kill at least 30 people, according to the complaint.

The complaint contains chilling excerpts of comments allegedly made by Hamzeh, captured in a recording and translated from Arabic into English.

"If I got out, after killing thirty people, I will be happy 100% ....100% happy, because these 30 will terrify the world," he said at one point, according to the complaint.

At another point in the conversation, Hamzeh allegedly discussed the roles he and other attackers would play.

"One of us will stay at the door at the entrance and lock the door down, he will be at the main door down, two will get to the lift up, they will enter the room, and spray everyone in the room. The one who is standing downstairs will spray anyone he finds. We will shoot them, kill them and get out," Hamzeh said, according to the complaint. "We will walk and walk, after a while, we will be covered as if it is cold, and we'll take the covers off and dump them in a corner and keep on walking, as if nothing happened, as if everything is normal."

FBI agents had been investigating Hamzeh since September after a source reported that he was planning to conduct an attack on Israelis in the West Bank, according to the complaint.

"Hamzeh abandoned these plans for family, financial, and logistic reasons. Thereafter, Hamzeh refocused his plans on an attack in the United States," the complaint alleges.

The FBI began monitoring and recording Hamzeh's conversations with the informants in October, according to the complaint.

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said he learned of Hamzeh's arrest from the U.S. attorney who's prosecuting the case.

"He made it clear to me that this was a serious issue. This was something that was not a casual conversation with me," the mayor said. "I got the sense that this was a real threat."

Barrett praised federal authorities for acting quickly and decisively.

"This is a situation where people should sit up, take notice, be thankful," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/26/us/mil...ges/index.html

[Sdiver]

... a little more information.

FBI: Man plotted machine gun attack on Masonic temple

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee man wanted to storm a Masonic temple with a machine gun and kill at least 30 people in an attack he hoped would show “nobody can play with Muslims” and spark more mass shootings in the United States, federal agents said Tuesday after the man’s arrest.

Federal prosecutors charged 23-year-old Samy Mohamed Hamzeh on Tuesday with unlawfully possessing a machine gun and receiving and possessing firearms not registered to him. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney, Dean Puschnig, didn’t immediately respond to a question asking why charges were limited to gun possession. Hamzeh’s attorney, federal public defender Ronnie Murray, didn’t immediately return email and voicemail messages left after business hours.

According to an FBI affidavit, agents were tipped off in September that Hamzeh planned to travel to Israel in October to attack Israeli soldiers and citizens in the West Bank. He abandoned those plans due to “family, financial and logistic reasons,” the affidavit said, but refocused his efforts on a domestic attack.

Hamzeh discussed his plans extensively with two FBI informants. The affidavit said the FBI started recording his conversations with the informants in October.

Hamzeh and the two informants traveled to a gun range on Jan. 19 and practiced with a pistol. Afterward they took a tour of a Masonic temple in Milwaukee. The affidavit does not name the temple and Puschnig declined to identify it.

Masons are members of a fraternal organization that carries out a variety of activities including charity work. Wisconsin has nearly 11,000 Masons in 180 lodges, according to Frank Struble, grand master of Free and Accepted Masons in Wisconsin. The organization is not a religion.

“Masons are a part of an organization that helped build this country,” Struble said. “I can understand from that standpoint where someone who is against this country would target us.”

Federal agents said that on Jan. 19 and into the early morning of Jan. 20, Hamzeh discussed his plans to attack the temple with the informants, telling them they needed two more machine guns — the group apparently already had one — and silencers. They planned to station one person at the temple’s entrance while the other two went through the building, killing everyone they saw. They then planned to walk away from the scene as if nothing had happened.

“I am telling you, if this hit is executed, it will be known all over the world … all the Mujahedeen will be talking and they will be proud of us,” Hamzeh said, according to the affidavit. “Such operations will increase in America, when they hear about it. The people will be scared and the operations will increase. … This way we will be igniting it. I mean we are marching at the front of the war.”

Hamzeh added that he hoped to kill 30 people, “because these 30 will terrify the world. The (expletive) will know that nobody can play with Muslims.”

He added, “We are here defending Islam, young people together join to defend Islam, that’s it, that is what our intention is.”

According to the affidavit, Hamzeh met with two undercover FBI agents on Monday. They presented him with two automatic machine guns and a silencer. He paid for the weapons and silencer in cash and put them in the trunk of his car. The agents then arrested him and recovered the guns and silencer.

Hamzeh’s arrest marks the Milwaukee area’s second brush with a mass shooting in less than four years. A white supremacist named Wade Michael Page fatally shot six people at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, a Milwaukee suburb, in 2012. Page shot himself in the head after a police officer wounded him.

Last month Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, opened fire on a social services center in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people. They later died in a shootout with police.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/fbi-ma..._medium=social

[Guymullins]

Originally Posted by Sdiver

... a little more information.

But, but, wasn't he told who built Suliman's Temple?

[JJ_BPK]

According to the affidavit,
Hamzeh met with two undercover FBI agents on Monday.

They presented him with two automatic machine guns and a silencer.

He paid for the weapons and silencer in cash and put them in the trunk of his car.

Fast and Furious still active??

[abc_123]

Originally Posted by JJ_BPK

Fast and Furious still active??

The made the sale and let him take possession so that there would be no issues at trial.

The very next sentence read: " The agents then arrested him and recovered the guns and silencer."

Apples and oranges.

[ddoering]

What's the big deal. His name is Sam. Nothing to see here. Move along.