ABU DHABI: An Emirati man accused of seeking to carry out attacks on targets including Abu Dhabi’s Formula 1 circuit claimed to be the local leader of Daesh, newspapers reported on Tuesday, citing a Federal Supreme court hearing.
A prosecution witness told the court that an Emirati and his wife had taken an oath of allegiance to Daesh through social media, Gulf News reported.
He was married to Alaa Bader Al-Hashemi, an Emirati woman executed in July for the militant-inspired murder of US school teacher Ibolya Ryan, 47, in the washroom of an Abu Dhabi shopping mall in December 2014.
The witness said the defendant’s computers showed he used speeches of Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and late head of Al-Qaeda Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi to spread the radical militant ideology among youth and recruit them.
“The man set up a website named ‘the media battalion’ to promote the terrorist ideology of these terrorist organizations and recruit young people for them,” the witness added.
Another witness said the defendant’s computers had software to log on to sites teaching people how to make explosives with plans to target a shopping mall, a military site and to assassinate a leader.
Meanwhile, a daily cited a witness as telling a court during the trial that the defendant and his wife had performed a “symbolic ceremony to pledge allegiance” to Al-Baghdadi.
A prosecution witness told the court that an Emirati and his wife had taken an oath of allegiance to Daesh through social media, Gulf News reported.
He was married to Alaa Bader Al-Hashemi, an Emirati woman executed in July for the militant-inspired murder of US school teacher Ibolya Ryan, 47, in the washroom of an Abu Dhabi shopping mall in December 2014.
The witness said the defendant’s computers showed he used speeches of Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and late head of Al-Qaeda Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi to spread the radical militant ideology among youth and recruit them.
“The man set up a website named ‘the media battalion’ to promote the terrorist ideology of these terrorist organizations and recruit young people for them,” the witness added.
Another witness said the defendant’s computers had software to log on to sites teaching people how to make explosives with plans to target a shopping mall, a military site and to assassinate a leader.
Meanwhile, a daily cited a witness as telling a court during the trial that the defendant and his wife had performed a “symbolic ceremony to pledge allegiance” to Al-Baghdadi.
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