Islamic State supporter plots to bomb Super Bowl

[Sidewinder]

New York Daily News, via MSN

Suspected ISIS supporter indicted over Super Bowl bomb plot, by Reuven Blau

An alleged ISIS supporter has been indicted on charges he planned to explode pipe bombs at last season’s Super Bowl, according to a report Sunday.

Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, 44, who is charged with arming and training men to attack a Prophet Mohammed cartoon contest in Garland, Tex., in May, conspired to set off the bombs at the University of Phoenix Stadium during the big game, according to a CNN report based on the indictment handed down Wednesday.

Kareem, who is also known as Decarus Thomas, was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Earlier this year, he was charged with providing advice and guns to the wannabe terrorists in the thwarted May 3 attack on the cartoon-drawing contest New Yorker Pamela Geller hosted in Garland.

Terror suspects Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi were killed by an off-duty traffic cop as they tried to attack the controversial cartoon contest.

The three men began conspiring to support ISIS around June 2014, according to the indictment, CNN reported.

The trio went to remote areas in Phoenix for target practice during the first half of 2015, the indictment alleges.

Kareem allegedly faked a car injury and filed a bogus insurance claim citing his supposed injuries in an effort to raise money for the attack, the indictment said.

The men also watched multiple videos “depicting jihadist violence and apparent wartime footage in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East” and “torture and executions” by ISIS followers, the indictment states.

During those viewings, Kareem “exhorted and encouraged” the other men to take up arms and attack the United States, according to the indictment.

The men also looked up the home addresses of U.S. military personnel as they searched for possible targets, the court papers revealed.

[Elheru Aran]

Uh, your tense is off. It's 'plotted', not 'plots'. Especially since this was a pretty good while ago...

[Pelranius]

One of his fellow jackasses will probably threaten the 2016 Super Bowl in due time.

[Elheru Aran]

One of his fellow jackasses will probably threaten the 2016 Super Bowl in due time.

Been done. See historical documentary 'Black Sunday'.

No, though, seriously, the Bowl gets a lot of threats. Usually nothing, though. Just one of the chances you take being a highly visible, heavily attended public event in sports. There's a reason whatever town it happens in amps up security like crazy over the week or so of the event.