https://apnews.com/article/fbi-islamic-state-group-attack-charlotte-44f31a4463af3d68c3f9c5f2eaac8057CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The FBI said Friday it disrupted a New Year’s Eve attack plot targeting a grocery store and fast-food restaurant in North Carolina, arresting an 18-year-old man who authorities say pledged loyalty to the Islamic State group.Christian Sturdivant was charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Investigators said he told an undercover FBI employee posing as a supportive confidant about his plans to attack people. Their online messages, along with a recent search of his home, indicated attacks would occur with knives and hammers, according to prosecutors and records.Worried Sturdivant might attempt violence before New Year’s Eve, the FBI placed him under constant surveillance for days, including on Christmas, U.S. Attorney for Western North Carolina Russ Ferguson said.Agents were prepared to arrest him earlier if he left his home with weapons, Ferguson said at a news conference in Charlotte. “At no point was the public in harm’s way.”Sturdivant was arrested Wednesday and remained in custody after a federal court appearance Friday. An attorney representing him did not immediately respond to an email or phone message seeking comment. Another hearing was scheduled for Jan. 7. The alleged attack would have taken place one year after 14 people were killed in New Orleans by a U.S. citizen and Army veteran who proclaimed support for IS on social media. Searches of Sturdivant’s home and phone uncovered what investigators described as a manifesto detailing plans for the attack.A handwritten note found in a trash can at Sturdivant’s home listed details of the planned attacks and the number of intended victims at a Burger King restaurant and unnamed grocery store, according to an FBI affidavit.
>>1470825Fascinating how this FBI keeps failing to track down suspects after they do things, but conveniently keeps foiling attacks on major holidays only ahead of time.
>>1470825Attack planned by who exactly? Did the "foreign terrorist organization" representative and his undercover FBI employee happen to work in the same office? Who wrote that note?
>>1470860>Christian Sturdivant was charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization> attack plot targeting a grocery store and fast-food restaurant in North Carolina>Their online messages, along with a recent search of his home, indicated attacks would occur with knives and hammersApparently we need to be in awe and not question that the FBI arrested someone who was supposedly planning on giving knives and hammers to foreign IS terrorists so they could attack a fast food place in North CarolinaNot join in on the attack, just hand out hammers and watch.
18 yr old Christian Sturdivant , hardcore isis trained militant jihadist.I'm sure krazy-eyed killer kash gonna find a connection to Mandami and his New York City inauguration. N'YUCK N'YUCK
