Army National Guard Spc. Hasan Edmonds and his cousin Jonas Edmonds have been arrested for conspiring to provide material support provide material support to ISIS. Justice Department’s National Security Division has prosecuted or are prosecuting 32 cases of people attempting to support to terrorist groups. 18 of those cases involve supporting ISIS.
Hasan Edmonds was arrested Wednesday night at the Chicago Midway International Airport , where he was going to head to Egypt to meet up and join ISIS. As of now Jonas Edmonds was arrested at his home in Aurora, Illinois. Jonas plotted to attack on a U.S. military facility in northern Illinois where Hasan Edmonds had been training.
Both men have been charged with criminal complaints filed in U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois, with one count each of conspiring to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization. Hasan Edmonds came to the attention of the FBI in late 2014, where the authorities found out that he and Jonas Edmonds planned for Hasan Edmonds to travel overseas to fight with ISIS.
The complaints use the acronym ISIL, or Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Hasan Edmonds was an active member of the Illinois Army National Guard and planned to use his military training to fight with ISIS. Jonas Edmonds asked an FBI informant to help him with the attack, and use Hasan’s uniforms and information to get access to the base and target officers.
“Disturbingly, one of the defendants currently wears the same uniform of those they allegedly planned to attack,” Carlin said in the statement.
Conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
In my opinion I feel that Hasan Edmonds needs to be sent to the military court, he even took the oath that no matter what happens he will protect the U.S. no matter what. He deserves life in prison without parole and a possibility of death sentence including his cousin. If you turn your back to America and you are a citizen and/or in the military, we will hunt you down and will not let you rest, till justice have been served. In this case the democratic core values of Loyalty and Promise Keeping were deliberately broken.
The Oath of Enlistment (for enlisted):
“I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”
The Oath of Office (for officers):
“I, _____ (SSAN), having been appointed an officer in the _____ (Military Branch) of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance tot he same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God.”
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/26/us/illinois-arrests-isis/index.html