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This undated booking photo from the Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff’s Department shows Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem. Kareem is accused of providing the guns used in an attack at a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department via AP<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Authorities have said Simpson accessed the list six weeks before the cartoon contest, and that Simpson and Soofi drove to Yuma and elsewhere in Arizona near military installations after discussing plans to attack a base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kohlmann\u00a0said the name of a service member from Phoenix was written in a notebook found at the apartment of Simpson and Soofi after the Texas attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Islamic State wanted the American service members targeted because “they are soldiers of the enemy,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kohlmann\u00a0also explained al-Qaida promotional materials that authorities say were found on Kareem’s laptop and an attached flash drive. Kareem has denied the flash drive was his.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kohlmann\u00a0also gave jurors a short course on influential leaders in al-Qaida and ISIS; how the groups use social media to recruit followers; and the influence of lectures delivered by violent jihadists such as Anwar al-Awlaki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Authorities have said a copy of “Defense of the Muslim Lands,” a book written by Sheik Abdullah Azzam, was found at the Texas scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kohlmann\u00a0said Azzam’s book explains why people should become mujahedeen, or holy warriors, and calls for the liberation of Muslim lands through jihad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He called Azzam the “godfather of contemporary jihad.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kareem’s lawyers unsuccessfully tried to bar prosecutors from using the promotional materials as evidence at trial. They haven’t yet questioned the expert in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An expert for the U.S. Justice Department told a jury in a terror trial Tuesday that the Islamic State group targets individual American troops and reaches new recruits through social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":61644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":88,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[15,88],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3189],"class_list":["post-54357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-your-military"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"JYRFZE4XYZGJBAEUKTY7BNGZA4","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-military\/2016\/03\/02\/terror-expert-isis-targets-individual-troops\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n