Yet no one at Auburn, or at Southern Union Community College, would have dared ask Nayef Qashou what he thought of jihad and the Islamic State. That would have been “Islamophobic.”
“Terror suspect living in Auburn attended Opelika’s Southern Union Community College,” by Elizabeth White, WRBL, September 19, 2019:
LEE COUNTY, Ala. (WRBL) – Startling news settling over the east Alabama community as a dual Jordanian and United States citizen living in Auburn and attending school in Opelika is arrested in a Federal terrorism probe.
FBI agents took Nayef Qashou into custody on Monday, and he appeared in Montgomery Federal Court later this week after being indicted and charged….
FBI agents allege Qashou lied to FBI agents and destroyed evidence in their terror probe while asserting Qashou allegedly told agents he would execute a U.S. Soldier if the Islamic State Group ordered him to.
In a newly unsealed affidavit, the FBI says Qashou arrived in the U.S. through Atlanta’s airport in 2015 and made his way to Opelika to go to school. The FBI interviewed him more than a dozen times over the past four years before making the arrest this week after he was indicted.
News 3 has learned he lived in Auburn and took general education classes at Southern Union Community College from 2016-2018
The FBI claims he used encrypted phone apps to communicate with suspected terrorists who told him he should carry out an attack in the United States.
“UPDATE: Man arrested in terrorism probe was student at Auburn University,” WRBL, September 20, 2019:
AUBURN AL. (WRBL)– An Alabama man arrested in a terrorism probe was a student at Auburn University. FBI agents took Nayef Qashou into custody on Sept. 16. Qashou appeared in Montgomery Federal Court earlier this week after being indicted and charged with with lying to the FBI and destroying records….
Qashou, a dual Jordanian and United States citizen, was living in Auburn and had previously attended Southern Union Community College from 2016-2018.
Qashou was apprehended as part of a years long terrorism probe in which the FBI says he told agents he would execute a U.S. soldier if ordered to do so by the Islamic State group.