Federal prosecutors answerable 23-year-old Samy Mohamed Hamzeh on Tuesday with unlawfully possessing a apparatus gun and accepting and possessing accoutrements not registered to him.
The FBI recorded conversations amid Hamzeh and two federal informants talking about an advance on a Masonic temple in Milwaukee, according to an affirmation ambience out the affirmation adjoin Hamzeh. Federal apostle Ronnie Murray didn't acknowledgment email and voicemail letters Wednesday.
"We are Muslims, arresting Muslim religion," Hamzeh said, according to the bent complaint. "We are actuality arresting Islam, adolescent humans calm accompany to avert Islam, that's it, that is what our ambition is."
Hamzeh and the two informants catholic to a gun ambit on Jan. 19 and accomplished with a pistol, the affirmation said. Afterward, they took a bout of a Masonic temple that federal authorities beneath to identify.
Masons are associates of a congenial alignment that carries out a array of activities, including alms work. Wisconsin has about 11,000 Masons in 180 lodges, according to Frank Struble, admirable adept of Free and Accepted Masons in Wisconsin. The alignment is not a religion.
According to the affidavit, agents were angled off in September that Hamzeh planned to biking to Israel in October to advance Israeli soldiers and citizens in the West Bank. He alone those affairs due to "family, banking and logistic reasons," the affirmation said, instead absorption his efforts on a calm attack.
Federal agents said that on Jan. 19 and into the aboriginal morning of Jan. 20, Hamzeh discussed his affairs to advance the temple with the informants, cogent them they bare two added apparatus accoutrements — the accumulation allegedly already had one — and silencers. They planned to base one being at the temple's access while the added two went through the building, killing anybody they saw. They again planned to airing abroad from the arena as if annihilation had happened, the affirmation said.
"I am cogent you, if this hit is executed, it will be accepted all over the apple ... all the Mujahedeen will be talking and they will be appreciative of us," Hamzeh said, according to the affidavit. He added that he hoped to annihilate 30 people, "because these 30 will alarm the world."
According to the affidavit, Hamzeh met with two clandestine FBI agents Monday. They presented him with two automated apparatus accoutrements and a silencer. He paid for the weapons and silencer in banknote and put them in the block of his car, the affirmation said. The agents again arrested him and recovered the accoutrements and silencer.
Hamzeh had been accursed afresh from his job as a trainer at a city Milwaukee gym, said Delia Luna, the buyer of the9Round Kickbox Fitness. She said he was "very intense, actual militant" as a trainer.
"He didn't mix well," Luna said.
A above accessory of Hamzeh's at a Milwaukee gas base said he was afraid by the charges. Rami Safi told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Hamzeh was "a funny guy who admired to just arctic out."
Sami said he hadn't apparent Hamzeh in several months but had lived with him in Miami for a few months afore Hamzeh alternate to Milwaukee.
"I never heard him allocution annihilation about adoration or aggravating to get into any alarm organization," he told the newspaper.
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