FBI Most Wanted: American Ahmad Abousamra May Be Helping ISIS Terrorists In Syria
The FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List includes Ahmad Abousamra, a Massachusetts man who is believed to be helping the ISIS terrorists in Syria. But friends in the Sharon mosque are claiming that it wasn’t any ISIS in America who enticed Abousamra to join the Islamic State.
In a related report by The Inquisitr, Ted Cruz believes that American citizens like Ahmad Abousamra should lose their U.S. citizenship if they join terrorist groups like ISIS.
The 33-year-old Sunni Muslim fled fled the U.S. for Syria in 2006 after questioning by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in 2006. The FBI has made the search for Abousamra a priority since 2009, and the American has been on the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorists” list since December. Abousamra has a background in computer science and is well educated so it is presumed he is involved in ISIS’ social media efforts, which disseminates the ISIS beheading videos as well as other messages.
“Here is a guy that went to terrorist training camps, that expressed his desire to go and fight in Iraq against US troops. That’s somebody that needs to face justice,” said Vincent Lisi, a FBI special agent from the Boston office. Although the FBI did manage to wiretap Abousamra at one point, Lisi admits there is a lack of evidence surrounding one of the most notorious figures on the FBI Most Wanted list. “We have no idea. We don’t know where he is or what he is doing…. We need to figure out where he is, figure out what he is doing and figure out a way to get him back to Boston and in a courtroom.”
Ahmad Abousamra attended the Islamic Center of New England’s mosque in Sharon for years, and his father, Abdul Badi Abousamra is a prominent doctor in the Boston area. Representatives for the Sharon mosque believe that he became involved with the ISIS terrorist group through the internet.
“This was a very unusual situation where he had everything right in life but took a wrong turn,” said Nabeel Khudairi, a spokesperson for the Sharon mosque. “When he was being raised in this society, everything was available to him. He came from a good home, they were affluent, he had a good education, his religion certainly was nurturing to him, but he made a choice that certainly was regrettable…. I don’t think it took place from being here at the Islamic Center or any affiliations he had here. I believe he was looking for some means to express some inner anger and rage that he had, and he was able to find it by going online and being nurtured by some radical elements from the Internet.”
According to WCVB, friends of Ahmad Abousamra testified that one of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists “wanted to attack a shopping mall and that he believed it was virtuous to fight against American’s [sic] in Iraq and that the attacks of Sept. 11 attacks were justified.”
