CBS News: Boston Terror Suspect Plotted ‘an ISIS Style Beheading’ Targeting Pamela Geller

‘Usaamah Rahim had plan to carry out an ISIS style beheading possibly targeting conservative activist Pamela Geller’

PEGUES (voice-over): “CBS News has learned Usaama Abdullah Rahim had planned to carry out an ISIS-style beheading, possibly targeting conservative activist Pamela Geller. The plan was hatched before his [Rahim] failed attempt to attack law enforcement on the streets of Boston.
GELLER (voice-over): "I'm the number one target for ISIS right now."
PEGUES (voice-over): “On May 3, Geller organized the Prophet Muhammad cartoon drawing contest in Garland, Texas, where police fatally shot two men who opened fire outside the event. Last  night, Geller told CBS This Morning she has increased her security but has yet to discuss the threat with the FBI.”
GELLER (voice-over): "It won't end with me or the cops... The one thing that's came out of Garland is ISIS is here. Islamic terrorism is here on the home soil on a weekly, sometimes a daily basis."
PEGUES (voice-over): “Court documents say Rahim told his alleged accomplice, David Wright, about a plan ‘to kill a person outside of Massachusetts.’ In coded language, Wright then told Rahim something was ‘like thinking with your head on your chest’. An apparent reference to beheadings carried out by ISIS. In the days following that failed attack in Garland, the FBI increased surveillance and investigations of perceived low-priority threats. Rahim had been on Joint Terrorism Task Force radar for several months, but in recent weeks, law enforcement began 24 hour-a-day surveillance of him."

 

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