The youth, said to be unrepentant, was charged on 31 counts in the US on Friday and faces a lengthy jail term there; Israel is set to charge him on Monday
ed note–there are 2 reasons why Israel is reluctant/unwilling to extradite the terrorist to the US–
1, Generally (except in those cases where the refusal to do so would generate so much negative attention that it could be a gateway towards bigger problems with ‘PR’) the Jewish state does not extradite Jews to face justice in Gentile courts. Since Judah-ism permits any and all acts of chicanery, violence, deception and every other crime imaginable towards Gentiles, in the eyes of the Jewish state, no ‘crime’ has occurred.
2. More importantly though as far as this case is concerned, what Israel is worried about is that once arriving in the US where the FBI is free to interrogate this ‘nice Jewish boy’ without interference is that more info is likely to come out, such as the DIRECT role Israeli intelligence played in overseeing his false flag operations.
Nota bene as well the fact that the terrorist is referred to in the most harmless and endearing terms–‘youth’ (5 times) and ‘teenager’ (6 times) despite the fact that legally he is an adult, terms of endearment that are NEVER, EVER, NEVERFREAKINGEVER used when it is a Palestinian that finds him/herself at the center of some ‘judicial’ act on the part of the Jewish state.
Times of Israel
A legal battle is shaping up between Israel and the United States over the Israeli-American teenager who made hundreds of bomb threat calls to American Jewish institutions, with US prosecutors indicting him on multiple charges on Friday and set to seek his extradition, and Israeli prosecutors preparing to charge him on Monday.
American and Israeli investigators have been questioning the youth, who lives in Ashkelon, since his arrest last month, and new details of his alleged crimes are continuing to emerge.
Israel’s Channel 2 news on Saturday said the youth, whose name is under a gag order in Israel, also charged for his phone threat services on occasion, specifying incidents in which he issued bomb threats to US educational institutions, forcing their evacuation, on behalf of students who wanted exams postponed. He was paid in Bitcoins for these threats; almost 2 million shekels (more than half a million dollars) worth of Bitcoins was found in his internet bank account.
Israeli prosecutors are on Monday planning to charge the 18-year-old with crimes involving extortion with menace, causing panic and money laundering.
On Friday, he was charged in the US with 28 counts of making threatening calls and conveying false information to police, according to the indictment filed in federal court in Orlando. Separately, he was charged with three more counts of making threatening calls, conveying false information and cyberstalking in an indictment filed in federal court in Athens, Georgia.
If tried and convicted in the US, he would face a lengthy jail term, and US prosecutors are set to seek his extradition, Channel 2 reported. However, it is not clear that Israel’s state prosecutors, proceeding with their own case against him, will readily agree, the TV report noted.
It added that the youth has expressed no sorrow or regret for his actions.
His lawyer has said that he has a brain tumor and suffers from autism. His parents have also argued that he is unfit to stand trial, though they have apologized for his alleged actions. On Thursday an Israeli court extended his remand until April 24.
The teen living in Israel left scores of messages graphically describing children’s deaths in calls to Jewish community centers and schools across the United States, using an online calling service to disguise his voice as a woman and hide his identity, according to the federal indictment filed in Florida.
The calls to the Jewish community centers and schools stoked fears of rising anti-Semitism and led to campus evacuations.
The Florida indictment said that he made 245 threatening calls, most of them to Jewish community centers and schools, from January to March. He recorded each of the calls himself and kept them in organized files at his home in Ashkelon, along with news articles describing the police responses to the threats, the indictment said.
A large antenna at his apartment building allowed him to make long-distance, outdoor wireless connections.
The Florida indictment said recordings of the calls stripped of the software-enabled disguise revealed a speech impediment in the caller’s voice that matched his.
The Georgia indictment connects him to several incidents of ‘swatting’ in which authorities are called to respond to an emergency that ends up being fake. The indictment alleges that in January the University of Georgia Police Department received a phone call about a home invasion that ended up being untrue.
The JCC Association of North America said in a statement that it welcomed the charges and that it was ‘enormously proud of the extraordinary commitment to safety and security’ at the community centers.
‘Today’s charges into these violent threats to Jewish Community Centers and others represent this Department’s commitment to fighting all forms of violent crime,’ US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday. ‘These threats of violence instilled terror in Jewish and other communities across this country and our investigation into these acts as possible hate crimes continues.’
FBI Director James Comey added: ‘This kind of behavior is not a prank, and it isn’t harmless. It’s a federal crime. It scares innocent people, disrupts entire communities, and expends limited law enforcement resources. The FBI thanks our partners for working with us here at home and around the world.’
The suspect, said Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth E. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, ‘took extraordinary steps to conceal his identity and location through several technological means, including voice alteration, use of proxy IP addresses, virtual currencies and caller ID spoofing.’
A wave of bomb threats to American Jewish institutions since the start of the year helped spread fear amid an apparent increase in hate crimes and anti-Semitic acts in the United States. Some said that the rise of Donald Trump as US president encouraged the extreme right and emboldened hate groups.
The arrest of the Jewish teenager over dozens of the threats complicated the debate, however.
He is also alleged to have made threatening phone calls over the past two to three years targeting schools and other public institutions in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
In addition, Israeli police say he is suspected of a bomb threat to Delta Airlines in February 2015 that led to an emergency landing.
During a remand hearing on Thursday in Rishon Lezion, the teenager’s parents asked the court to replace their son’s attorney with a public defender, but the defendant insisted that his current lawyer, Shira Nir, remain on the case, Channel 10 reported. The court ruled that Nir should remain the suspect’s counsel.
‘After I saw documents related to the suspect’s past, I decided to ask his parents to bring a private psychiatrist to the prison, in order to help clarify that he is not fit for detention,’ Nir told Channel 10. She said the suspect’s father refused to pay for a private psychiatrist and subsequently asked the court to replace her with a public defender.
That Jew will walk, it should be destroyed as a cancer like Pollard.
With all due respect, I don’t think we can say that this ‘yoot’ would receive Gentile justice if he were to be extradited and stand trial here in these united states. Aren’t we, at core, operating under Judaic/rabbinic law here? Precedent being what it is and all….
And the threat to the Delta flight should carry even worse penalties than the threats to the judaic community centers. He needs to be extradited as soon as is legally possible. If Judea, Inc. fights his extradition, there should be repercussions between coming from the U.S. to Judea, Inc.
What? Are we going to take this lying down like our duplicitous government did the U.S.S. Liberty?
I don’t care a whit about the threats to his co-religionsists, except for the fact that the gentiles are always blamed for these threats and now the truth is FINALLY out—although the U.S. media don’t do much reporting on it, naturally. And I do care that the judaics can flout our laws whenever they damn well please. I want this payback to be a biotch. But look at the Pollard case and how that ended up.