Young and another Mississippi resident were arrested on Saturday, August 8, 2015, on charges that they were trying to travel overseas to join the Islamic State militant group.
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Hearing began Monday in a case involving the arrest of two Americans over the weekend at a Mississippi airport for plotting to join the Islamic State group in Syria, according to local reports.
Judge Alexander has ordered the two held without bail, pending grand jury action. “What they need is a violent, extremist ideology, and that’s exactly what they have espoused”.
The two apparently had been planning for almost a year to leave the U. They’ve since been charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the terrorist organization. Defense attorneys declined to comment after the hearing, but told Alexander the material didn’t prove either had committed a crime.
Young reportedly wrote of marrying Dakhlalla, saying that the wedding took place in June.
Prosecutors pointed out that while the defendants’ lawyers argued that they had no military training or weapons, they were not harmless.
“I honestly believe the relative life of privilege has insulated them from the actual reality of what they were doing”, she said.
Dakhlalla’s father, Oda H. Dakhlalla, is the longtime imam of the Islamic Center of Mississippi in Starkville, Harmon said, and has previously been reported to be a native of Bethlehem, in the West Bank. Oda Dakhlalla was born in Bethlehem and his mother, Lisa Dakhlalla is from New Jersey.
Dennis Harmon represents the family of 22-year-old Muhammad “Mo” Dakhlalla.
The court papers say both Young and Dakhlalla are U.S. citizens. He says Dakhlalla is the youngest of three sons and was preparing to start grad school at Mississippi State University.
The Vicksburg Police Department has identified him as Officer Leonce Young, who they say is a respected 17-year veteran of the department.
She is a 2013 graduate of Warren Central High School, where she was an honor roll student and senior homecoming representative. A federal hearing is to continue Tuesday. In court, prosecutors said Jaelyn Young had been trying to convert her sister to Islam as well.
“Alhamdulillah [Thanks be to God], the numbers of supporters are growing”, Starkville resident Jaelyn Delshaun Young told an undercover FBI agent in a conversation online on July 17, a day after the deadly shooting, according to the FBI. “What makes me feel better after just watching the news, a akhi [that is Arabic for brother] carried out an attack against U.S. Marines in Tennessee”.
Judge Alexander said that although neither of them have ever been in trouble with the law and have family members willing to oversee their home confinement, she still feared that both would attempt to commit acts of terrorism.
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– “I am good with computers, education and media”, Dakhlalla allegedly wrote in one message to an Federal Bureau of Investigation employee. The charges say they were headed to Istanbul.
