A pair of Queens men who proclaimed hatred for America and admiration for Osama Bin Laden have been arrested for stockpiling equipment in a Jamaica warehouse that they intended to send to overseas terrorists, according to court documents.
Pakistani national Humayoun Ghoulam Nabi, 27, and Ismail Alsarabbi, 32, a US national born in Kuwait, were both taken into custody Monday after a three-year investigation into their alleged support of the Taliban and al Qaeda, according to a criminal complaint.
Nabi told a confidential informant that “he hated the United States and wants to take a stand,” according to court papers.
“Nabi compared his efforts to those of Osama Bin Laden” and was “building a small army,” papers state.
The Queens resident said he could no longer stomach living the good life in a country that was mistreating his brethren overseas.
“We are sitting here breathing in peace, eating chicken and roasts and our brothers, they are dying,” he told the informant, according to court papers.
Nabi talked of creating a non-profit company that would provide jackets, goggles and GPS systems purchased in New York to comrades in Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to court papers.
“If you want to kill them, use their methods against them,” he said in a taped 2011 conversation. “They are bastards, bastards, bastards, raping our sisters. We have to be careful, we don’t want to be caught in the beginning.”
In March of last year, Nabi sent $2,000 to an account in Lahore, Pakistan, from a Brooklyn Western Union branch. With the informant at his side, he stated his hope that fighters would kill American soldiers and “cut them to pieces,” according to the complaint.
In June 2012, the informant introduced Nabi to an undercover NYPD detective who was presented as a conduit to fighters in Afghanistan.
Nabi eventually purchased jackets and other supplies that were to be placed in a Jamaica warehouse taken out in the name of the informant, according to the complaint.
Alsarabi eventually took part in the discussions and selection of items that would help to “level the playing field” against American forces abroad.
The men were arraigned on Tuesday and held on $500,000 bond by Judge Elisa Koenderman.