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New York: 19-year-olds were planning attacks on Christians and Jews — They declared allegiance to ISIS and wanted to behead the unbelievers

The two were arrested shortly before travelling to Turkey — The chilling messages they exchanged

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The New York Police Department and the FBI dismantled a terrorist network with ties to ISIS.

According to the New York Post, the group included young men from New Jersey who said they wanted to behead unbelievers and become famous for terrorist attacks, and who fantasized about executing Jews and carrying out antisemitic attacks.

Nineteen-year-old Thomas Caan Jimenez-Guzel, who lived with his parents, was arrested at Newark airport on Wednesday while waiting 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 indictment. The 19-year-old, who is the son of a U.N. diplomat, appears in photos posing in front of an ISIS flag and holding a knife.

Also arrested was 19-year-old Milo Sendarat, the son of a well-known Iranian-American poet, who is said to have been enraged because his mother had Jewish friends, saying he wanted to execute “500 Jews” and make their women and children slaves. He allegedly planned to use his car to kill participants in a pro-Israel march in Montclair.

The authorities put handcuffs on — as an accomplice — 19-year-old Saed Ali Mire, from Kent, Washington, whom federal agents located and arrested one day before his scheduled flight to Turkey.

In a video call, Mire said that all members of the group should be prepared to cut people’s throats if the group needed to film propaganda videos, with Jimenez-Guzel offering to carry out the beheadings himself, saying coldly: “I’ll do it, man.”

In another group chat, Jimenez-Guzel said he wanted the group to “do something that will leave a mark on history. Something that will make them make a documentary about you on Netflix. Something that will get you a Wikipedia page,” adding that he would end up being “one of the 100 worst people in the world.”

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At one point Mire noted that everyone in the group should “get a life” — meaning to kill someone — similar to a gang initiation in the ghetto “so that we develop this mentality and it gets into our heads that we ‘get a life’ by killing someone, and once we do it, we won’t hesitate anymore.” “Brother, for me it will be easy,” Jimenez-Guzel replied.

He had posted on social media a document in Arabic titled in English “KILL THEM SILENTLY.” The document encouraged Muslims to carry out the “duty” of jihad and to “terrorize the unbelievers to avenge their Muslim brothers,” using knives, axes and vehicles to attack Christians and Jews.

The two 19-year-olds from New Jersey face charges of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and attempted conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, with each count carrying a maximum penalty of 20 years if convicted, along with a $250,000 fine and lifetime supervision.

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