Mahmood Alessa
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Carlos Eduardo Almonte Suddenly, a loser becomes a soldier of Allah with the power of life and death!
Take Mohamed Mahmood Alessa and his buddy Carlos Eduardo Almonte. They were just two nondescript New Jersey video gamers with futures promising only more of the same. Then they grew bushy beards and declared themselves jihadists. They started talking about playing video games for real and maybe cutting off a few heads.
The problem for them was that they looked like jihadists the way young men of other times looked like greasers or hippies.
And, the last thing a serious and therefore secretive terrorist organization needs are recruits who might well be wearing big signs saying TERRORIST.
"I wanna, like, be the world's known terrorist," Alessa was recorded saying.
Photo: AP No wonder they could not get any terrorist organization to take them when they journeyed to Jordan three years ago.Back home, they fired themselves up with videos by Anwar al-Awlaki, the Yemen-based imam. Not that they needed brainwashing. They had no brains to wash, as they further demonstrated in setting off to join the Al Shabaab terrorists in Somalia. "Shabaab is the main one," Almonte was recording saying, as if he knew.
Thanks to a tip from one of their relatives, the FBI had been on to them and an undercover NYPD cop had won their trust. They were arrested at Kennedy Airport as they prepared to fly off for a second attempt at becoming real-life terrorists
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