Sami Osmakac
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Posted: 01/09/2012
TAMPA - As part of their release to the media, authorities provided ABC Action News with a 15 page affidavit in the case against suspected terrorist Sami Osmakac.
In an effort to reduce the difficult of reading the reports, we've condensed it into several quotes.
The affidavit contains summaries of conversations between Osmakac, a Confidential Human Source (CHS) and a FBI undercover employee (UCE).
You can find the quotes, as well as the page they appear on, below. If you'd like to read the complete report, click here.
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The CHS stated that OSMAKAC and another individual had come into his/her business and asked if the CHS had any flags representing Al Qaeda.
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OSMAKAC told the UCE he wished to acquire "one AK at least," "a couple of UZIs," "ten grenades minimum," and explosives, specifically, an explosive "belt."
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OSMAKAC told the UCE that he wanted the explosive belt to be built to kill people, stating that the purpose of the explosive belt was "to hold people and in case they want to storm whatever I'm trying to do ... its for everybody and the people who want to storm it."
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OSMAKAC did state "if the building flew in, it's ... more terror in their hearts." When asked whether he wanted a low or high intensity explosive, OSMAKAC asked which one would cause more damage, "let's say to police, for instance." When the UCE told OSMAKAC that high intensity explosives would "rip flesh," OSMAKAC expressed his desire to have high intensity explosives in the belt.
During this meeting, OSMAKAC stated that he wanted to carry out his attacked "during the night." He stated, "I want to do something, something terrifying, like one day, one night, something's going to happen, then six hours later, something else."
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The UCE and OSMAKAC discussed how far OSMAKAC needed to be from the vehicle-borne explosive devices to avoid being injured by the blast. The UCE stated that OSMAKAC should be at least 400 yards away. OSMAKAC stated, "that's going to do a lot of damage." The UCE replied, "I mean, that's how far you wanna be, because I'm, just to be safe." OSMAKAC then stated, "No, no, the more the more the better." He also asked if the bomb would "take down buildings" and "kill people inside." When the UCE responded in the affirmative, OSMAKAC stated, "that's what I'll do." When discussing the "trunk," OSMAKAC stated, "You know, they saying they like 3 trillion in debt, they like 200 trillion in debt, and after all this money they're spending for homeland security and all this, this is gonna be crushing them, this gonna terrify them."
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OSMAKAC explained that the place he wanted to target after placing the car bomb was "very close" to where he would detonate the car bomb. He stated that during the second portion of his attack, he wanted to use the explosive belt to "get in somewhere where there's a lot of people" and take hostages. Then, OSMAKAC stated he wants to contact the authorities, specifically, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, "and I want to demand something ... from the kuffar." (In Arabic, the word kuffar means infidels or disbelievers in Islam) He continued that after he took hostages, "they better release whoever I demand to release."
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"When discussing "kuffar backup," OSMAKAC stated, "once I have this ... they can take me in five million pieces."
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Further, OSMAKAC indicated that he was also considering parking the vehicle with the explosive device in front of the Operations Center of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, located in Ybor City. OSMAKAC asked the UCE, "Will that take down a police station, the Sheriff's building?"
"Honestly, I would love to go for the Army people, but their bases are so locked up, I have to do something else." Second, he discussed a plan to "take down the bridges" across the Tampa Bay area in simultaneous attacks with multiple people, stating "this will crush the whole economy ... this would crush everything, man, they would have no more food coming in. They would, nobody would have work."
"We all have to die, so why not die the Islamic way?"
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OSMAKAC then directed the UCE to film a video in which OSMAKAC explained his motives for conducting a violent attack. During the video, OSMAKAC is seen sitting cross-legged on the floor of the hotel room, with the pistol in his hand and the AK-47 displayed behind him. The video lasted approximately 8 minutes. In the video, OSMAKAC stated his belief that Muslims' "blood" was more valuable than that of people who do not believe in Islam. He also stated that he wanted "pay back" for wrongs he felt were done to Muslims.
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