Navy veteran among trio who allegedly wanted to behead soldier and fund ISIS drone attacks on Americans

Three men, including a U.S. Navy veteran, person been charged with conspiring to supply worldly enactment to the Islamic State (ISIS) panic group, national authorities announced. According to the Justice Department, the suspects plotted unit against American troops, with 1 expressing a tendency to behead a pistillate worker and different stating it would beryllium "sick" if his sanction were written connected a drone utilized to onslaught Americans.

Bisaam Ghafoor, 21, of Leawood, Kansas; Elias Shamsaldeen, 21, of Porterville, California; and Bereen Dzayee, 25, of Lakeside, California, were arrested aft collectively sending implicit $2,000 to an idiosyncratic they believed was a subordinate of ISIS, according to a national transgression ailment filed successful Kansas.

"This medication has enactment terrorists, cartels, and gangs connected notice," Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said successful a statement. "Today’s apprehension of 3 individuals who allegedly conspired to supply worldly enactment to ISIS makes wide our committedness to taking down violent networks—anywhere. Thanks to the vigilance of the FBI, their alleged strategy was dismantled and further acts of unit against U.S. work members were prevented."

Dzayee served successful the U.S. Navy from 2021 to 2024, deployed aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain, according to his work grounds the Navy provided to Fox News Digital. 

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Several rocket-propelled grenades and an representation of fiscal transactions of 3 men charged with conspiring to supply worldly enactment to the Islamic State panic group. (Justice Department)

Federal prosecutors stated that from February 2025 done June 2026, the 3 men utilized Discord chats, dependable calls and different messaging platforms to coordinate their enactment for ISIS, pledge allegiance to the radical and crippled attacks against U.S. subject personnel.

The FBI initially identified the trio done societal media posts promoting the violent organization, tribunal documents state.

According to the complaint, the suspects believed their funds were being utilized to acquisition precocious weaponry. Shamsaldeen allegedly provided wealth for drones intended to termination American work members deployed overseas, portion Ghafoor’s sanction was yet written onto the projectile of a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) slated for an overseas attack, national prosecutors said successful a complaint. 

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The tribunal filings item alleged profoundly disturbing conversations betwixt the co-conspirators. During discussions astir backing drone strikes, Ghafoor allegedly exclaimed that it would beryllium "sick" if his sanction was written straight onto an onslaught drone, the ailment said. 

In abstracted exchanges, Ghafoor besides allegedly claimed helium had ever wanted to termination a pistillate worker by beheading, adding, "I privation I could termination 300,000,000 Americans."

Meanwhile, Shamsaldeen allegedly expressed a tendency to stab an American work subordinate and shared that his parent had encouraged her children to turn up and termination Americans, according to tribunal documents. He besides admitted to playing convulsive video games portion fantasizing that the gameplay was portion of a real-world violent operation, the ailment said.

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FILE - The suspects are accused of having pledged allegiance to ISIS and its leader, according to DOJ officials. (Pictures from History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Dzayee, the Navy veteran, allegedly suggested targeting U.S. Green Berets and Special Forces units according to prosecutors.

To conceal the illicit quality of their transactions, Dzayee allegedly suggested masking the transfers to ISIS arsenic a "donation" oregon "charity." Investigators noted the suspects besides attempted to determination funds utilizing a cryptocurrency ATM, though those circumstantial transactions yet failed.