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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nEx-PH2 sends us a link to the story<\/a> from Chicago that reports 35-year-olds Joseph D. Jones and Edward Schimenti were charged in federal court yesterday with conspiring to support ISIS.<\/p>\n In the complaint filed in federal court, U.S. Attorney Joel Levin alleges Jones and Schimenti pledged allegiance to ISIS and “advocated on social media for violent extremism in support of the terrorist group.” Multiple federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies were involved in the investigation, including undercover FBI employees who befriended the pair while posing as fellow ISIS devotees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n According to the Department of Justice<\/a>, the pair was conspiring with FBI informants;<\/p>\n According to a complaint and affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, [Joseph D. Jones, also known as \u201cYusuf Abdulhaqq,\u201d 35, and Edward Schimenti, also known as \u201cAbdul Wali,\u201d 35], both U.S. citizens, pledged their allegiance to ISIS and advocated on social media for violent extremism in support of the terrorist group. In the fall of 2015, the pair befriended three individuals whom Jones and Schimenti believed were fellow ISIS devotees. Unbeknownst to Jones and Schimenti, two of the individuals were undercover FBI employees and the third individual was cooperating with law enforcement and was not an ISIS supporter.<\/p>\n Over the next several months, as part of the conspiracy, Jones and Schimenti allegedly took steps to assist the cooperating source with plans to travel overseas to join ISIS. The defendants met the undercover FBI employees and the cooperating source on numerous occasions, during which Jones and Schimenti discussed their devotion and commitment to ISIS, according to the complaint. Some of the meetings took place in Waukegan, Zion, Bridgeview, North Chicago, Highland Park and Chicago, in Illinois.<\/p>\n At one point, Jones and Schimenti shared photographs of themselves holding the ISIS flag at the Illinois Beach State Park in north suburban Zion, according to the complaint. In a recorded conversation with the cooperating source, Schimenti commented that Schimenti would like to see the ISIS flag \u201con top of the White House,\u201d the complaint states.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, Schimenti engaged in physical training exercises with the cooperating source at a gym in Zion, the complaint states. Understanding that the cooperating source intended to travel overseas to fight for ISIS, Schimenti commented that the exercises would \u201cmake you good, you know, in the battlefield,\u201d according to the complaint.<\/p>\n According to the complaint, last month, the pair furnished several cellular phones to the cooperating source, believing they would be used to detonate explosive devices in ISIS attacks overseas. On April 7, Jones and Schimenti drove the cooperating source to O\u2019Hare International Airport in Chicago with the understanding that the source would be traveling to Syria to join and fight with ISIS. Schimenti told the source to \u201cdrench that land with they, they blood.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Schmenti-social-media-300x90.jpg\")
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