Court Denies Bail To Homegrown North Carolina Jihadists

The AFP reports that "A federal magistrate denied bail Wednesday for six of eight terror suspects accused of a wide-ranging conspiracy to attack targets in multiple countries, including Israel. Magistrate Judge William Webb reached his decision after hearing from federal prosecutors and defense attorneys during proceedings held Tuesday and early Wednesday. Prosecutors put an FBI special agent on the stand and played several secret recordings of alleged ringleader Daniel Patrick Boyd.The recordings and other evidence -- including a cache of firearms and more than 27,000 rounds of ammunition -- demonstrated that Boyd posed a grave threat to the public if released on bond, said prosecutor Jason Kellhofer. Boyd, 39, has been shown, through the evidence presented, to be a dangerous individual, said Kellhofer, who is with the US Justice Department's Counterterrorism Section. His alleged accomplices in the plan to wage 'jihad' or holy war on various sites around the world included his sons Dylan, 22, and Zakariya, 20; Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan, 22; Hysen Sherifi, 24; and Ziyad Yaghi, 21."
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