Police Arrest 21-Year-Old ‘Jihadist’ in Pennsylvania
- Posted on January 7, 2011 at 7:08pm by
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Internet postings by Emerson Begolly, a self-proclaimed jihadist from Natrona Heights, Penn., recently caught the attention of federal investigators. Now, prosecutors are asking a judge to keep the 21-year-old in custody, claiming he’s a danger to the community.
In a collection of videos posted online, Begolly has posed in Nazi regalia and traditional Arabic clothing, CBS Pittsburgh reports. His internet postings have centered on killing people, recently advocating for killing Jews in a holy war. “Grab my gun and grab my ammo/Strap my kamarband onto my chest/Get dressed up in my camo/Martyrdom is what I wanted best,” he sings in one video.
Testimony in federal court indicated that when questioned by the FBI, his mother used a ruse to get him into a car. She got out and FBI agents opened the doors. He allegedly fought them, biting two agents and reaching for his pocket where he had a .9 millimeter gun ready to fire.
As he was handcuffed, he asked his mother whether she had anything to do with it. She said yes – she wanted to get him help at which point he referred to her as Judas.
His mother, with whom he lived with part of the time in Natrona Heights, said he often would take long walks while armed.
She said she’s seen pictures of him firing an AK-47 and other guns. The FBI is asking a judge to keep him in jail until his trial.
His mother says Begolly has a genius IQ, but has Aspberger’s, a form of autism in which the person can’t interact very well socially.
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Comments (136)
conservativeone
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 12:17amThe guy is a loser. Which most terrorist wanna-bees are.
I think we should start executing these wack jobs. It’s only a matter of time before someone
like him walks into a Starbucks and starts harming people.
“WE” waste a lot of tax payer money putting people like this on trial. One single 9 mm round runs about .90 cents to $1.50 Far cheaper than going through months of trials.
Besides, when Muslims capture Infidels, they execute them on video without a trial or anything. I think we should start extending the same courtesy. Make sure the 9 mm round has Pig’s blood on it as well.
Report Post »Akira Gomi
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:08amFeed him to starving pigs, why waste precious metal?
Report Post »chasbronson
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:15amStarbucks?They have been advocating concealed carry.He would get what he needs.DEAD.Shame is someone would take a hit before they take him down.Asberger ??I could be wrong ,but it seems to me these autism excuses are getting lame.It seems as if it is an excuse for something evil or sinful or rebellious to take root in an individuals life.The old excuse“ I was born that way”.Well, we were all born sinners,doesn’t give us a right to become terrorist. time to repent,and take responsibility for your life.I hope “Mom” gets protection when he gets out because they won’t keep him ,and she will be dead.I feel sorry for her, and all the others who have these kids living in their basements.Some of it though is consequences of how they raised these kids.
Report Post »conservativeone
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 12:09amEnough of this … Execute this guy. It’s time to start making examples of these idiots.
Report Post »krenshau
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 11:54pmBelieve it or not, if this guy is a U.S. citizen I am pretty sure he hasn’t done anything wrong. Are we sure we want to go down this path? Owning guns and saying hate speech isn’t illegal, at least not last time I checked. The guys a dolt, and maybe a dangerous dolt, but that doesn’t mean he broke the law, or that the government can take away his rights. The FBI should do their job and wait for him to actually try to break the law before arresting him.
Report Post »onegodinkansas
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 12:02amwhat do you think ‘probable cause’ means?
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 12:10amYeh but he was a Jihadist? Unfortunately we have already gone down that road and far too many Americans are ignorant of history.. Personally I cringe and become nauseous everytime I think back and consider how I use to support GW and his Patriot Act. How I use to justify it and how I trusted that sick mfker. Never ever trust anyone when comes to Liberty! Unfortunately I was behind him for about a year after he invaded Iraq.. I recall justifying how it was alright to preemptively invade a sovereign nation and how there must be some logical good reason that the Gov‘t just doesn’t want to tell us about… Yuck, Yuck Yuck! I just pray to God that perhaps the Tea Party movement can refocus the American people on Freedom and Liberty above all else and maybe even deliver us from these insane wasteful and completely needless Wars!
Report Post »donh2
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 12:25amYour way employs a couple of gum shoes at $80 an hour to stalk this guy and plot games to bait the creep into a crime. A big waste just to contrive a reason to make an arrest they have already decided to be necessary. Then he claims entrapment. This is just some pathetic mammas boy who isn’t getting laid and no life. Check him into an asylum with a jewish shrink , mother disposes the gun , and make sure he fails future background checks.
Report Post »zoo9guy
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 6:55amHe needs help, if he doesn’t get it lives could be lost, thanks Mom! I know it must have been hard.
Report Post »WTFnorm
Posted on January 11, 2011 at 4:06amKRENSHAU:
I agree with you. It’s along the lines of “They came first for the Communists, and I didn‘t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist…”.
If we are willing to allow the government to take this guy, who has not committed any crime (even though, by the details laid out in the story–which, by the way, we have no way of verifying–he probably COULD be a danger), we are setting ourselves up to be sheep led to the slaughter. I don’t get it. Freedom is worth the dangers that are inherent to it.
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 11:42pmIt’s a damn good thing that this was a “Jihadist” because it appears that the FBI is arresting people for what some deem over the top speech on the internet. I’m just so damn glad that we have the Jihadist, Muslim extremist, Taliban, AlQuieda, Right Wing Extremist and so forth to justify all of the encroachment on our liberities or otherwise perhaps somewhat educated people may begin to question a Gov’t which is so out of line and so far away from what our forefathers had intended for us that many are beginning to smell the stynch of tyranny! But thank goodness for 9/11 and the Jihadists so that they can take away all liberities with no one to question… Right?
Report Post »dasmoondog
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 11:36pmdoes not his boy know that islam is the religion of peace???pffft!!!
Report Post »barahawk1234
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 11:27pmI can and will say I’m glad that they have this person in custody however I think that my one friend put it best: “Its not the guy running his mouth and acting tough you need to worry about, its the quiet one in the back that is most likely to mess you up.”
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 11:24pmthank god his mother and brother had a little sense …
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 11:19pmWhy does Islam attract all the crazy people?
Answer: Their “god” was a pedophile who hated woman, and felt threatened by them. Oh, and as a pedophile, his preference was for little boys, over little girls, but he occasionally raped little girls to save his reputation – pretending to be a “manly” man.
Nice “god” you Muslims have there.
Report Post »onegodinkansas
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 12:00amA common thread for founders of all the major cults, they were deviants. Joseph Smith, Jim Jones, David Koresh, etc.
N37BU6
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 12:34pm@ONEGODINKANSAS:
Nice jab, there…
Report Post »Race
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 11:13pmKill it before it breeds.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 11:28pm(In)sanity isn’t exactly hereditary.
Report Post »Race
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:47amSome forms are genetically based. In any event, morons like this are unfit to share my planet and should be removed from it.
Report Post »donh2
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 11:08pmIt is dangerous to treat people this way. In China there are people arrested who have committed no crime. They are merely suspected of being potential criminals. However, in this extreme case where the mother knows there is a problem, this Boy from Brazil needs to spend a long time in a padded cell.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:53pmThe boy probably made some good friend’s from one of the training camps up there in Pennsylvania but their is also one in W.v a. I hope people can see it is not about race it’s the religion of islam itself .I hope his mother has some kind of protection from him how sad maybe his father shoulda took him to the woodshed.
Report Post »mpa
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:20pmLet’s not get the “training camp in PA” meme going here at TheBlaze. The one that certain crazy sites cite is not a training compound, but the domicile-in-exile of Fethullah Gulen, one of the few reformist and US supporting Mahometan preachers.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:49pmAre all of these homegrown terrorists effeminate clowns? I shouldn’t want to laugh, but they are all funny. That singing… was he serious?
“Get dressed up in my camo”
I laughed so hard… MORE! There has to be more! Please tell me there is more… please.
He should release a single.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:53pm“Aspberger’s”
Oh… never mind.
The ED article is already being written up.
Report Post »Deda1
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:45pmPlenty of good strong trees in PA., time to get a rope and have a hanging.
Report Post »mcFirst
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:41pmwhat a nice looking muslim boy. I think joy behar loves him.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 11:00pmAre your kidding? Joy is organizing and financing his defense team right now.
Report Post »timber wolf
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:31pmNeoconservative thinker David Horowitz was put on the spot by a Muslim student during a speech at the University of California San Diego. His comeback revealed her true goal.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fSvyv0urTE&feature=player_embedded
CaptainSpaulding
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:30pmDid you know Islam is a religion of peace?
Report Post »GPS-Tech
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:37pmNO! NO! NO!!!!! IT’S PIECES! PIECES! A piece of bone over here, a piece of flesh over there. Bomb fragments, scraps of car wreckage.
Report Post »GPS-Tech
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:30pmDo you first have to be a giant dork to be allowed to do jihad? It seems like every last one of these guys arrested in a terrorist plot look like the biggest geeks. That guy should have changed his name to Massengill ImaDeuche.
Report Post »David Foxfire
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:29pmDamn, and I thought Christian W Chandler is the worst person making us auties look bad. (Google him and find out, folks.)
Report Post »Kastrioti
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:24pmWhere do they get the 72 virgins? In my 30 years I haven’t found even one. Most younger gen American girls dropped their panties before 12.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:33pmThey worked for politicions before you knew them.
Report Post »Beachcomber556
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:09amIt only says 72 virgins. There is no reference to sex, age or species.
Report Post »Jack007
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:12pmGive him a one-way ticket to Pakistan
Report Post »Suki
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:06pmMeanwhile at the airport…the TSA is groping grandmothers and 5 year olds.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:15pmThat is exactly why I refuse to fly.
Report Post »Old Truckers
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:25pmI will not fly anymore either. I will drive from now on.
Report Post »What kind of man would allow another man to rub him down? Not me!
exdem
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:56pmBut now instead of rubbing you down at the airport , they are going to have us bend over at the gas pump , so drivings not a good option either. We should all just stay put in our little hovels so we wont further damage the planet.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 9:57pma form of autism in which the person can’t interact very well socially.
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Perfect for jihad !
Report Post »No wonder 72 virgins make jihadies do crazy things
stmike
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:55amTake notice that he’s spewing the Muslim rhetoric but then calls his mother Judas. What Muslims don’t have any classic betrayors in the koran to compare people to? Right away this guy falls back on the bible.
Report Post »4theRepublic
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:13am@STMIKE… I was thinking the same thing!
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:13amI like how when a follower of islam does something wrong, it’s always an odd ball with a mental problem.
The koran is a bastardized version of the bible a lot of which was written by imprisoned Christians forced to create a weapon to use against Christianity.
Report Post »Raptor
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:09am72 virgins? I have to agree with “Walter”(Jeff Dunham for the great unwashed). Why do I want 72 virgins how to have sex? How bout 72 slutty women who know what there doing!
Report Post »Raptor
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:21amRaptor
Report Post »Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:09am
72 virgins? I have to agree with “Walter”(Jeff Dunham for the great unwashed). Why do I want 72 virgins how to have sex? How bout 72 slutty women who know what there doing!
8jrts
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 9:55pmWow!! Must break his mother’s heart, but I commend her for what she did. Who knows how many lives she may have saved. Aspberger’s or not, this guy is dangerous and needs to be off the streets.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 9:53pmI think they need to find this persons associates .. sounds like they a looking for people whom they can manipulate.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 9:58pmMaybe Helen Thomas is his fairy Godmother
Report Post »StMichelob
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:27pmSounds on the surface more like a loner looking for attention…maybe just a screwed up kid with a gun.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 9:51pmShe was very brave, God bless her, as I am sure this was the hardest decision she ever had to make. Thank you for making the hard choice.
Report Post »Anarcho Capitalist
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:15pmIts people like this that make the world interesting.
StMichelob
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:28pmYes, she is, or maybe having lived with him her whole life she is scared out of her gourd and knew his wires weren’t put in right at birth. Either way, probably saved some lives with that arrest.
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:38pmAmen to that Sister. Praying for the mom there. The world is a dangerous place.
Report Post »Aither
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 10:58pmI believe this person just has a very disturbed personality and needs help. He probably wanted to find an excuse to be violent and Jihad was what filled that excuse. Very sad story I must say. My prayers go to the mother and family whom I sure is struggling.
Report Post »TheBMT
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 11:37pmuh oh he is white. That is going to throw the racists for a loop.
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 12:06amwhy would it throw me for a loop??
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 12:13amGranny, you are right. Please God, protect this Mother for doing the absolute right thing. I will keep her in my prayers tonight.
Report Post »hickoryrat
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 12:19amIf martyrdom is what he wants best,he should be obliged.
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:21amNice job Mom .
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:08amI agree with your statement GRANDMAOF5. My heart breaks for this mother. I admire her and will pray for her.
Report Post »GBMBulletsSKNRD
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 3:48amI agree with all of you.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 7:19amI agree with all posts below this one, especially the ones insulting to me.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:55amIt would have been easy for me! She has no doubt saved lives! She deserves a citizens award.
Report Post »docvet
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 12:31pmYes, he is a very confused individual. Did anybody notice that he called his mother a “Judas”? You don’t usually hear a true Musliim using a term from the christian bible.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:19pmThis Guy is a good hater. I wish he would make up his mind though. Are you a Nazi or a Jihadist make up your mind already. One thing about him is his constancy of paranoia/hatred toward Jews probable doesn’t know any………. I think it’s the Uniform
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:34pmJust had an Epiphany. Maybe we put the Jihadie in the same cell ….with the old man who beat the snot out of the cameraman with a stick.
Report Post »TheAntiProgressive
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:40pmI for one would like to know what crime this guy was charged with. Gun possession?
Report Post »While not agreeing with what this guy is saying, are we really comfortable with the feds showing up and taking him into custody for his speech?
MegamanX
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:59pmWhile he definitely seems dangerous and needs help he it doesn‘t appear he’s broken any laws yet. I praise the mother for her decision but they’ll need something better to hold him on.
Report Post »mcfinch
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 2:21pmI’m glad there is one less able to do harm to the American people.
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Report Post »zoo9guy
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 6:51amThank God she had the guts to call someone, if only the people in Jared Loughner’s life would have asked for help. I watched a youtube video posted by Jared where he burns an American flag, the way he acted was so bizarre that it made my skin crawl! Please, if you see someone around you that is losing touch with reality and staring to advocate violence, call the authorities. Jared could have been helped and lost of lives could have been saved. God bless and be prepared.
Report Post »Khthulhu
Posted on January 10, 2011 at 10:27amThat kind of interest I can do without.
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