He should never have been allowed back into the United States after that. The fact that he was shows how dysfunctional the present system really is.
“Tampa Islamic State supporter rehearsed attack, tried to buy gun before arrest, FBI says,” by Kavitha Surana, Tampa Bay Times, May 29, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
TAMPA — In the month before his arrest Sunday, federal agents says Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari was preparing for a bloodbath.
The 23-year-old Tampa man ordered a bullet-resistant vest, a long sleeved hooded coat, an animal balaclava face mask and a drone. He bought an Uzi submachine gun and tried to order firearm parts and a silencer from eBay, according to a criminal complaint filed in the Middle District of Florida.
In his free time, he surfed Islamic State chatrooms that offered training on making suicide belts and bombs. He looked up details of Omar Mateen’s 2016 shooting attack on Orlando’s Pulse nightclub and googled “Bayshore Boulevard” and “busy beach.” One day, he drove out to Honeymoon Island in Dunedin, then turned around and drove straight back to Tampa.
And, the FBI said, he filmed a mock rehearsal of himself carrying out a massacre:
“Hey you, get on the floor. Get on the floor now. Don’t you move, don’t you move, I’m telling you, I will kill you,” he said in the April 30 cell phone video that FBI agents said they obtained. He was wearing a mask and holding a weapon that agents believe was the Uzi. “This is revenge for my brothers.”…
Al-Azhari is no stranger to Islamic State ideology. He served three years in prison in Saudi Arabia for attempting to join the organization in Syria with his father and two others, according to the criminal complaint. He returned to the U.S. in late 2018 — first to California, where his grandmother lives, and then he moved to Tampa.
An undercover FBI agent started talking to Al-Azhari after he tried to order a pistol frame and jig kit from an eBay seller in Texas, the complaint said. The FBI learned of the sale — the complaint doesn’t say how — and asked the eBay vendor to let an agent take over their account. The vendor agreed.
The undercover agent began calling Al-Azhari on April 25 to discuss possible gun sales. Over the next week, the FBI said it recorded Al-Azhari pressing the undercover agent for help to obtain firearms and a silencer and tried to arrange a cross-country shipment of illicit weapon parts. The criminal complaint included recorded statements from Al-Azhari encouraging the agent to buy a gun from a pawn shop, wipe the serial number and sent it to him….
While he was talking with the agent, the FBI said text messages from Al-Azhari’s phone show he bought a Uzi submachine gun from a local seller. After his arrest, agents retrieved the Uzi….
FBI agents interviewed Home Depot employees, according to the complaint, and they said Al-Azhari often conveyed “passionate and aggressive” views, saying things like Americans got what they deserved in the 9/11 attacks. Several employees also said Al-Azhari had asked them to help him obtain a gun….
“I want to join ISIS,” the complaint said he told the informant. “They are the real followers.”
The two agreed to pool their money to buy a Glock pistol and a silencer from the informant’s cousin, the complaint said. They met Sunday in Tampa, the FBI said, and the informant gave Al-Azhari a bag containing the gun, an extended magazine, a regular magazine and a silencer….