California resident sentenced to 15 years for planning terrorist attack in San Francisco

27, a summer resident of Modesto, California, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for planning a terrorist attack on behalf of an Islamic terrorist organization in the Pier 39 shopping and entertainment complex in San Francisco during the holidays, when there were many people in the complex.

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Eeritt Aaron Jameson, a tow truck driver, pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and conspiring to commit a terrorist act, writes SF Gate. The prosecutors of the US District Court in Sacramento demanded 15-year imprisonment and controlled release until the end of their lives for the defendant. Judge Lawrence Joseph O'Neill ruled on Monday.

“Jameson endangered his fellow Americans by supporting ISIS and planning an attack on behalf of a terrorist organization,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers said in a statement. “This is unacceptable, and I am grateful to the efforts of the agents and prosecutors responsible for this successful outcome.”

Jameson, who had previously converted to Islam, drew the attention of FBI agents who showed interest in him after suspicious messages on the Facebook man page published in September. There, he glorified pro-Islamic states, wrote pro-terrorist messages, and talked about planning his own terrorist attack.

Undercover agents chatted with Jameson in December and discussed plans to carry out the terrorist attack in San Francisco on Christmas Day.

“Jameson identified Pier 39 in San Francisco as the target location for the attack because he visited it often and knew that Pier XNUMX would be packed during the holidays, so no additional study of the location or special reconnaissance was needed,” said FBI agent Christopher McKinney. in a federal complaint.

Jameson, he said, was planning to die during the attack.

Posing as subordinates of the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, undercover agents later met with Jameson personally to continue planning the attack, prosecutors said. The FBI then searched the house of Jamesston, where they found two rifles, a pistol, ammunition, fireworks and two letters with “last will and testament”, which also recognized that he had committed acts against non-Muslims.

Jameson was previously fired from the US Marine Corps, where he was qualified as a sniper in 2009 year. They fired a man for fraud during a conscription, when it turned out that he was silent about his asthma.

Recently, Jameson was deprived of custody of his two children.

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