It was all for love: “The FBI affidavit alleged that Bell regularly used encrypted apps to communicate with a Nusra member with whom she had an online relationship.”
“American woman charged with transferring money to Syria-based terrorists,” Reuters, November 25, 2020:
U.S. federal prosecutors have charged a New Jersey woman with concealing multiple efforts to transfer money to Islamist militants in Syria connected to the Nusra Front, a onetime al Qaeda affiliate based in Syria’s Idlib province.
Maria Bell, 53, of Hopatcong, New Jersey, was accused in a criminal complaint of knowingly concealing her involvement in providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, namely al-Nusra….
The U.S. Attorney’s office in Newark alleges in court filings that starting around February 2017, Bell used mobile phone apps to communicate with, advise and facilitate money transfers, to al-Nusra, also known as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
An affidavit signed by FBI agent Matthew Hohmann says Bell also used encrypted apps to provide information to al-Nusra which could “support acts of terrorism.” This included advice on operational security, communications and gun purchases….
The FBI affidavit alleged that Bell regularly used encrypted apps to communicate with a Nusra member with whom she had an online relationship. It said she allegedly exchanged “thousands of encrypted communications” with the alleged Nusra member.
The FBI said that she planned to meet him in Turkey and sent at least 18 payments totaling $3,150 to his associates via wire transfer.
livingengine says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RH2YAExnpc
eduardo odraude says
The “Love jihad.” Jihadist scouts out lonely single Western woman. Jihadist woos lonely single Western woman. Jihadist gains various jihad advantages (such as citizenship, financial support, etc.) by being in relationship or marriage with lonely Western woman. This happens not only with jihadists. Sometimes a Muslim who is not a jihadist but is a traditional Muslim who likes the Sharia ethos, including its subjection of women, at first treats the Western woman with respect, but once she has gone with him to his home country, she finds herself living in a virtual hell where she is greatly restricted in what she may do and is subject to various kinds of abuse. She may find it difficult then to escape.
mortimer says
The ‘Love Jihad’ ticket will be her ticket to prison.
Women fall for ‘love jihad’, because they don’t know the bait-and-switch technique of normative, Islamic jihad.
Yogi says
What a stupid brainless woman, that’s all …
Keith O says
Got it in one Yogi.
b.a. freeman says
Yogi, what she *did* was certainly brainless and stupid, but she was raised and trained to be that way. do U remember learning about islam is primary school or secondary school? no? neither do i, because the f***ing leftists who run the indoctrination centers that used to be public schools HID IT FROM US. and they hid it from this woman as well. remember, forewarned is forearmed; had she understood islam, she would have sent the al-nusra dude a box of pigs**t instead of money.
we who *do* understand this poisonous piss-pot of a death cult welded onto the world’s largest gang need to be understanding of the 98% or more of non-muslims who do not. for this woman, it is too late, and she may never be able to recover her rationality. there are *millions* of others though, like the deluded, uneducated christians at christianity today, who need to be shown the truth. we cannot do that if we get all in their face, but if we befriend them and then slowly, gently expose them to how this s**t-eating cult works, we may gain allies and be able to save civilization.
Doris Frech says
10000000000 times Yes!Greetings from Germany
Wellington says
Been to Hopatcong in Sussex County, New Jersey. I’m going to be deliberately cruel here and state that Hopatcong is not a bad place, and much of Sussex County is beautiful farm country, but this woman is a dog.
Woof. No wonder she had to stoop to an online relationship with a Muzzie. Let’s face it, she was running out of options.
gravenimage says
Oh, I think she could have found someone better than a Jihad terrorist bent on using her–of course, that’s setting the bar pretty low…
mgoldberg says
The dog comment…. That’s rather unnecessary and it is cruel Wellington. But choosing a jihadi for a relationship details the ability to tunnel vision oneself into a deadly ignorance, and to become a moral and ethical reprobate and or worse… an enabler of homicidists. That is all our right and duty to delineate and detail her actions and it’s consequences.
Patriot1776 says
He took advantage of her. She was probably lonely and vulnerable . Then again I can be wrong.
somehistory says
Using her knowledge of how to encrypt, make money transfers, buy weapons, and hide these actions…for an evil group who would then use them to murder innocent people.
Too bad she didn’t use her knowledge for good and not for evil. Stupid and desperate for male attention she is.
Had she managed to get to turkey to meet up with her honeybun, she would have found out it wasn’t going to be the paradise she expected. Soon, the burka bodybag, the beatings, the insults coming from a filthy multiple murderer. And if she had lied to him about her age, maybe abandoned to die of starvation or attack. moslim terrorists like the females young…the younger, the more they lust for these.
She’s better off in an American prison.
Peter WF says
Hi, thanks, gave me a laugh. “Too bad she didn’t use her knowledge for good and not for evil.” Reminded me of a commonly used phrase in “Get Smart”.
somehistory says
I’m glad I could add a little humor. I loved Maxwell Smart and his famous lines. “Would you believe…” and “Don’t worry” changed to “Worry” and this one that seemed so apropos.
gravenimage says
New Jersey woman charged with transferring money to jihad terrorist in Syria with whom she had ‘relationship’
…………………
Either evil or bone-headedly stupid. No other possibilities.
mgoldberg says
Being tenaciously stupid is not that rare. Especially when there are so many forces working to convince people that they are being righteous thru following corrupted principles such as the Jihadi hides behind his cooing affections for the lady. I think we should be aware that it’s an ongoing effort by Jihadi’s to convince people that islam means peace- and yet if anyone drills down into that, they come to understand that there is no peace according to Islam unless all are ‘submitted’. And many people are driven to believe only that Islam means peace and this women no doubt was also drilled into believing that myth.
eduardo odraude says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae1RwBRtLUY
Jayell says
In times past, UK newspapers occasionally featured ‘romantic’ stories about British teenage girls (usually the not-particularly-attractive ones) who went to Turkey on holiday with their families and ended up in ‘relationships’ with waiters at the hotels they were staying in. The ‘waiters’ in question would then sometimes strangely end up in the UK, having impregnated and then possibly married the girl, but what happened after that we never seemed to know apart from the obvious fact that the UK population had acquired two extra members, one of which would probably be on the local unemployment register. One particular ‘happy young bride’ proudly presented herself to the cameras in full islamic gear, no doubt blissfully unaware that she’d probably find herself as part of a harem/muslim production line in a short space of time. But, before the time of the Twin Towers and Manchester Arena events, this was just Mills & Boon romantic novel stuff on a par (sort of?) with ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, no one knew about things like Jihad. and everyone thought that islam was just like going to church with added spices. The difference between that sort of thing and Ms Bell’s adventure here is that everyone, including Ms. Bell, should now be well aware of the not-so-hidden underlying agenda in countries where the Prophet Mohammed is venerated; and our heroine isn’t quite what you’d call a ‘gullible teenage girl’ who perhaps should have known a little better anyway?
Brenrod says
The whole narrative appears fishy: a total of $3150 divided by 18 transfers is about 170$ per transfer, hardly plot numbers. Sounds like a typical romance scam. It’s hard to imagine she had any “advice” to give terrorists. Also, what’s the big deal with using “encrypted apps, isn’t “WhatsApp” encrypted and used by billions? I would have thought the fbi had bigger “plots” to follow, but then they also pushed the fake trump Russia plot.
OLD GUY says
Poor woman falls in love on-line with a terrorist from Syria. Warning signs she missed. He’s from Syria, he’s muslim, he follows Islam, he asked her to send money and to try to send the money so it couldn’t be traced. DUMB
nossuk says
But the wealthy criminals continue to skate