Alleged Montclair NJ jihadi yuppies said they wanted to behead infidels and become famous for ISIS-inspired terror attacks and also fantasized about executing Jews and carrying out antisemitic attacks in the multicultural New York City suburb, according to chilling new docs released by the feds.
Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzel, 19, who lived at his parents’ million-dollar home in the wealthy New Jersey city, was arrested at Newark Airport on Wednesday as he waited to board a flight to Turkey. Authorities said he planned to travel to Syria to join ISIS, to which he had sworn allegiance, according to a 48-page criminal complaint.
The feds also released pics of Jimenez-Guzel, the son of a UN diplomat who heads a women’s business agency, posing in front of an ISIS flag and wielding a knife.
Suspect Milo Sedarat, 19, the son of a noted Iranian-American poet, meanwhile, raged about his mother having Jewish friends and said he wanted to execute “500 Jews” and make their wives and children slaves, according to federal docs.
Also arrested was alleged co-conspirator Saed Ali Mirreh, also 19, of Kent, Washington, whom feds tracked down and busted at his suburban Washington a day before he too was scheduled to fly to Turkey.
Group chats held by the teens, and other participants in the alleged conspiracy, painted a portrait of angry, violence-obsessed young men who fell deeply into jihadist indoctrination.
In one video call, Mirreh said all of the plotters would have to be prepared to slice people’s throats if the group needed to make any propaganda videos. Jiminez-Guzel disagreed, and happily volunteered to do any beheadings himself, coldly saying, “I’ll do it, bro,” the complaint alleges.
In another group chat, Jimenez-Guzel mused about desiring infamy, and said he wanted the group to “do something that’s going to leave a mark in history. Something that’s gonna make them create a documentary on you on Netflix. Something that’s gonna make you have a Wikipedia page.”
He also boasted to the group chat that he would wind up being “one of the most 100 evil people in the world.”
Mirreh noted in the chat at one point that everyone in the group would have to “unalive” — meaning to kill somebody — similar to an inner-city gang initiation “to get that mentality and to get into our brain that we unalive someone and once we come, we don’t hesitate no more,” he allegedly said.
Jimenez-Guzel responded, “bro, it’ll be easy for me,” and Mirreh agreed.
A social media post shared by Jimenez-Guzel included a document in Arabic titled in English “KILL THEM SILENTLY.” The document encouraged Muslims to practice the “obligation” of jihad and “terrorize the disbelievers to avenge their Muslim brothers.”
The document urged followers to use knives, axes, and vehicles to attack Christians and Jews, and suggested that all that was needed was a knife, hammer, or even less to cause chaos and destruction on a large scale across Europe and America.
Both men are facing charges including conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and attempted conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Jimenez-Guzel had his initial court appearance at Newark federal court on Wednesday, while Mirreh appeared before a judge in Seattle federal court.
Each count carries a maximum sentence of 20 years if convicted, along with a $250,000 fine and lifetime supervised release.
