By Rong-Gong Lin II
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — The FBI said a Modesto man who espoused support for Islamic State planned a Christmas suicide attack on San Francisco’s Pier 39, a popular tourist destination.
Authorities alleged in court documents filed Friday that Everitt Aaron Jameson, a tow truck driver, told an undercover FBI employee he believed to be a senior Islamic State leader that Pier 39 would be an ideal location for a terrorist attack.
Jameson allegedly sought from the FBI employee an assault rifle, ammunition, powder, tubing and nails — materials that can be made into a pipe bomb.
The suspect allegedly told the FBI that “we need something along the lines of New York or San Bernardino,” apparently referring to the shooting-related terrorist attack in Southern California in 2015 and the Oct. 31 terrorist attack in New York City.
Jameson allegedly described a plan to the FBI “in which explosives could ‘tunnel’ or ‘funnel’ people into a location where Jameson could inflict casualties,” the court document said.
FBI agents conducted a search warrant Wednesday at a residence in Modesto and found a note signed by Abdallah Abu Everitt Ibn Gordon Al-Amriki, dated Dec. 16, which in part said, “I Abdallah add Everett ibn Gordon have committed these acts upon Kuffar, in the name of Dar al Islam, Allahu Akbar!”
The FBI also seized firearms from the home. Islamic State had recently called for attacks on Western cities around the Christmas holidays.
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