Noelle Velentzas and Asia Siddiqui
Noelle Velentzas and Asia Siddiqui are American Al Qaeda-inspired domestic terrorists. Between 2013 and 2015, they taught each other how to construct a bomb, which they intended to use in an attack targeting law enforcement. Siddiqui also wrote and submitted extremist propaganda to Samir Khan, a prominent (now deceased) leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. They were arrested in 2015 and pleaded guilty to teaching and distributing information about weapons of mass destruction. Siddiqui was sentenced to 15 years in prison while Velentzas received a 16 year sentence.
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Hate Group
An organization whose goals and activities are primarily or substantially based on a shared antipathy towards people of one or more other different races, religions, ethnicities/nationalities/national origins, genders, and/or sexual identities. The mere presence of bigoted members... Read more
Colleyville Synagogu…
On January 15, 2022, a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, during services, taking three congregants and a rabbi as hostages. The standoff ended more than ten hours later with all hostages released, unharmed, and... Read more
Aafia Siddiqui
Siddiqui is a Pakistani woman who studied neuroscience at Brandeis and MIT in the 1990s and returned to Pakistan in 2003. She allegedly worked as a courier and financier for Al Qaeda. She was taken into custody... Read more