New Jersey man charged with plotting to support terror groups

Nader Saadeh, 20, formerly of Rutherford, is scheduled to appear in federal court in Newark this afternoon on charges of conspiring with others in New Jersey and New York, the officials said.

The arrests stem from an ongoing FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation of several people in New York and New Jersey who have allegedly conspired to provide material support to the terror groups.

He was ordered held without bail following a brief appearance Monday in U.S. District Court in Newark.

Alaa Saadeh, Nader’s brother, was arrested on June 29, 2015, and charged with conspiring to provide material support to IS, aiding and abetting an attempt to provide material support to IS, and witness tampering.

Between 2012 and 2013, Saadeh sent another alleged co-conspirator electronic messages expressing his hatred for the United States and a desire to form a small army that would include their friends, Justice said.

The Saadehs are just a few of the Americans who have allegedly tried – in some cases successfully – to join ISIS, an Islamist terror group that has used often brutal tactics to take over vast swaths of Syria and Iraq.

The informant said that by April 2015, Nader Saadeh was preparing to travel overseas with others in support of Islamic State, a DOJ-designated terrorist organization.

A 20-year-old New Jersey man was arrested on Monday and charged with seeking to join Islamic extremists in the Middle East. The other three were arrested in June. On the day ISIS’s leader declared an Islamic caliphate in Syria and Iraq, Nader posted images of ISIL’s flag on his Facebook page. Nader Saadeh lived in Rutherford until leaving the country on May 5, 2015, allegedly to join ISIL. “That all you know is that he was going to see his parents”.

Saadeh allegedly praised the Islamic State’s execution of a Jordanian pilot and the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris. Nader Saadeh is a dual citizen of the United States and Jordan, according to the complaint.

Alaa Saadeh told the FBI that the Queen conspirator provided Nader Saadeh with the name and phone number of an ISIL contract near the Turkey/Syria border who would help Saadeh travel to ISIL-controlled territory.

Each of the two counts against Saadeh carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison an fine of $250,000.

Nader was on his way to the airport in May with his brother and another collaborator when he said he planned to reunited with them overseas, according to the complaint.