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标 题: 紐約皇后區兩個穆斯林婦女計劃自造炸彈進行恐怖攻擊
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www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/nyregion/two-queens-women-charged-in-bomb-plot.
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Two women living in Queens have been charged with planning to build a bomb
that they wanted to detonate in the United States.
The women, Noelle Velentzas, 28, and Asia Siddiqui, 31, who until recently
were roommates, were named in a complaint unsealed on Thursday in Federal
District Court in Brooklyn, and were expected to appear in court on Thursday
afternoon.
Ms. Velentzas and Ms. Siddiqui, who are American citizens, appeared to be
interested in jihad, according to the complaint, which said that they had
been communicating with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and had been
viewing violent videos made by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS.
In the complaint, the government said the plot advanced to the point that Ms
. Siddiqui bought four propane gas tanks and stored them in a stairwell
outside her apartment. Earlier, the women had bought potassium gluconate at
a Queens pharmacy, bought the fertilizer Miracle-Gro, which can be used as a
bomb component, and read about and discussed making bombs.
The complaint does not indicate whether the women had a specific target.
During the inquiry, investigators deployed an undercover agent, who appeared
to be play a significant role in helping the women with the plan, according
to government documents.
In conversations recorded by the government, Ms. Velentzas expressed “a
preference for attacking military or government targets, rather than
civilian targets,” the complaint says. The women “implied that their goal
was to learn how to blow up a bomb from afar rather than conduct a suicide
bombing,” it says.
In December, after the funeral of Rafael Ramos, a New York police officer
who was killed in his patrol car, Ms. Velentzas seemed to home in on “
whether a police funeral was an appropriate terrorist target,” the
complaint says.
Ms. Velentzas seemed to see a limited future for herself. “I might get old
here and be able to put a lot of people onto wisdom and reason, or I’m
going to be in solitary confinement, and get raped or tortured, or I’m
going to be killed in the street — that is your future in America,” she
said in a conversation recorded in February, adding that her three outcomes
were becoming a grandmother, death or solitary confinement.
In 2013, the complaint suggests, an undercover agent began meeting with Ms.
Siddiqui and Ms. Velentzas. Those meetings became regular after July 2014,
when agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation questioned Ms. Siddiqui
at La Guardia Airport.
Since July 2014, the complaint says, “Velentzas and Siddiqui have discussed
constructing an explosive device to be used in a terrorist attack in the
United States.”
Ms. Siddiqui had developed ties to people in Al Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula, the complaint states, especially Samir Khan, who became a leader
in the group before being killed in 2011 in Yemen. In about 2009, Ms.
Siddiqui published a poem in Jihad Recollections, a publication of the group
. The poem, “Take Me to the Lands Where the Eyes Are Cooled,” urged
readers to commit jihad for Islam.
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Ms. Velentzas seemed partial to the Islamic State; after discussing
President Obama and the United States’ attacks on ISIS, she told the
undercover agent “that attacks on ISIS were tantamount to attacks on her
own state,” the complaint says. She also watched videos of ISIS members
beheading Syrian soldiers.
When discussing making bombs, the women seemed to be careful about their
efforts. In August 2014, Ms. Velentzas warned, in a conversation recorded by
the undercover officer, that they could be tracked by the government if
they watched YouTube videos about how to make explosives, or if they bought
too many bottles of Clorox. She bought a prepaid phone thinking it could not
be traced back to her, the complaint says.
Ms. Velentzas also showed Ms. Siddiqui and the undercover agent photographs
of Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted of plotting the 1993 World Trade Center
bombing, and Adis Medunjanin, who was convicted of plotting to blow up the
New York City subway system. She “explained that their plans failed partly
because they unknowingly provided information to government informants,”
the complaint says.
Ms. Siddiqui and Ms. Velentzas both studied chemistry and other elements of
making bombs, like soldering. In November 2014, they bought potassium
gluconate at a pharmacy after reading about it in a chemistry book, the
complaint says, then drove to a Home Depot to look at “copper wires, paint
containers with the word ‘combustible,’ small and large metal pipes, a bag
of sodium chloride and heater fluid containers” along with manure, which
Ms. Velentzas noted was used in the Oklahoma City bombing.
In a November conversation with the women, the agent told of having
downloaded “The Anarchist Cookbook,” which lays out how to make homemade
bombs, among other topics, and of having had visited the library to do
research on making bombs.
By late November, Ms. Velentzas seemed to become suspicious of the
undercover agent, using her phone to read pages online like “How to Spot
Undercover Police,” running searches on the name the undercover officer had
given, and researching how to figure out if someone is being bugged.
However, she continued to discuss the plot with the undercover officer,
debating the merits of nitroglycerin versus potassium chlorate. |
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