University says there is” no link” to the November attack on the home of GMU pro-Palestinian student leaders.
A rookie at George Mason University is being held in federal prison after the FBI alleged that he planned a “mass fatality attack” on the Jewish consulate in New York.
The student, Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan ( pictured ), 18, faces a number of federal charges and is being deported back to his home country of Egypt, CNN reports.
The student was no residing on school, but he was not permitted to use the university’s property, according to Virginia institution President Gregory Washington in a statement released on Thursday.
Campus leaders in Washington said they learned of Hassan’s imprisonment on Tuesday and intend to prosecute him for violating his code of conduct.
” … so far] Hassan ] appears to have no connection to an earlier police action involving two George Mason students whose home was searched in November”, he stated.
During the November attack, authorities said they found weapon, weapons, and a “death to Jews” mark in the home of Jena and Noor Chanaa, aunts who help direct the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine party, The College Fix reported at the time.
In Hassan’s event, a court document filed Monday demonstrate the FBI began investigating the 18-year-old after receiving a hint about his “radical and terrorist-leaning actions” on X.
An information technology big, Hassan posted content “revering” criminal officials like Osama bin Laden and “promoted violence against Jews”, according to the report.
Afterwards, in a chat with an undercover FBI agent, Hassan reportedly plotted an attack on the U. S. Israeli embassy, CNN information:
Afterwards, an allegedly covert FBI agent who posed as an extremist after contacted Hassan, who reportedly “recruited” the applicant to carry out a mass casualty harm. Over the course of many days, the informant received information, including bomb-making instructions and links to sources for ammunition and a rifle to carry out the attack, according to the affidavit.
In a series of November communications, he also sent a pro-ISIS video calling for” the killing of Jews” to the agent, and encouraged the agent to “aim for government buildings, use a Zastava rifle”, according to the court document.
According to CNN, Hassan “faces a slew of federal charges related to distributing information regarding explosives, destructive weapons, and weapons of mass destruction, and the intent to murder internationally protected persons.”
A Cornell University student who admitted to threatening to shoot Jewish students was given a 21-month prison sentence earlier this year, according to The Fix.
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