Illegal alien pleads guilty to attempting to kill Obama in Muslim terror plot

Birmingham, AL - On Friday, Ulugbek Kodirov, 22, of pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to threatening to kill the president, providing material support to terrorist activity and one count of possession of a firearm by an illegal alien.

Kodirov entered the country from Uzbekistan in June 2009 on a student visa. However, that visa was revoked in April 2010 after he failed to enroll in a school.

The Uzbeki national was living in a motel in Pelham, Alabama, at the time of his arrest in July 2011.

In a statement, U.S. District Attorney Joyce White Vance described Kodirv’s activity which led to his arrest:

 “Kodirov acknowledges that he had been in communication with an individual whom he believed to be a member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), and that Kodirov interpreted these conversations to mean that he should kill President Obama. Kodirov then took steps to obtain weapons to carry out his plans to kill the president. The IMU is designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department. Kodirov also showed jihadist Web sites and videos on his computer to another individual and told that person that he wanted to assist others in jihad overseas, according to the plea agreement.

Kodirov also acknowledges in the plea agreement that he had lengthy conversations in July 2011 with a different individual about Kodirov’s desire to kill President Obama and possible ways to carry out the assassination. That individual traveled to Birmingham to meet Kodirov and introduced him to another individual, an undercover agent, from whom Kodirov intended to obtain weapons he would use to kill the president.

The three men met on July 13, 2011, at a motel in Leeds, Ala. In that meeting, the agent presented a fully automatic Sendra Corporation Model M15-A1 machine gun, a sniper rifle with a telescopic sight and four disassembled hand grenades and asked Kodirov if he would like to use any of them to “carry out his plan to kill the President,” according to the plea agreement. Kodirov chose the M15-A1 machine gun and the hand grenades and left the meeting with the weapons. Agents arrested Kodirov before he left the motel.”

Kodirov could face up to 30 years in prison when he is sentenced.

Read the federal prosecutor’s report on the case in its entirety: http://www.justice.gov/usao/aln/News/February%202012/February%2010,%202012%20Uzbek.html

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