Second Man Pleads Guilty in N.C. Terrorism Case
8th June 2011
Terrorists? In North Carolina? That’s impossible, surely.
22-year old Zakariya “Zak” Boyd is the second defendant to enter into a guilty plea in the case of several men who plotted to wage violent jihad overseas. His father and cell ringleader Daniel Patrick Boyd pleaded guilty on Feb. 9 to one count conspiring to murder, kidnap and maim individuals in a foreign country in addition to one count of material support.
Well, ‘Boyd’ is Scottish, but what kind of a name is ‘Zakariya’?
According to a superseding indictment, Daniel Boyd trained for battle in terrorist camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Along his journey, he met Abdullah Azzam, a mentor of the now deceased al-Qaida head Osama bin Laden. Boyd then tried to pass his radical beliefs on to his own sons.
Daniel Boyd was recorded by the FBI preaching violence to his family. He told his sons Zak and Dylan, another co-defendant, that “the blood of Muslims has become cheap…because most of the Muslims have abandoned jihad.”
Oh. But I thought Muslim extremism was caused by poverty and despair among benighted foreigners?