Ohio: #MUSLIM who plotted to attack Capitol competent to stand trial #ISLAM #TERROR @JIhadwatchRS

 For the Islamic State ruled APRIL 18, 2016 2:04 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER

.S. law enforcement officials always want to assume that Islamic jihad terrorists are mentally incompetent. It fits in so much better with their worldview than the prospect which for them is too terrible to contemplate, that they may be motivated by Islamic texts and teachings.

“Capitol plot suspect appears competent, using birth name,” by Dan Sewell,Associated Press, April 18, 2016:

CINCINNATI (AP) — A suburban Cincinnati man, the beard and long hair he had when arrested gone, has been calling himself again by his birth name and appears competent to stand trial on charges that he plotted to attack the U.S. Capitol in support of the Islamic State group, according to testimony Monday.

Defense psychologist Scot Bresler, of the University of Cincinnati, strongly advised that Christopher Lee Cornell, 22, be re-evaluated because his competency is “marginal” and could change before trial. U.S. District Judge Sandra Beckwith said she would move ahead with a trial schedule, at the end of a competency hearing she called after his attorneys raised questions about Cornell’s mental state.

Cornell had used the name Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah and followed some Islamic religious practices while, the FBI said, expressing support for violent jihadists. Bresler said he thought Cornell “self-radicalized” and adopted the identity to make him “feel he was somebody.”

Cornell has been held without bond since his January 2015 arrest near Cincinnati by the FBI. He has pleaded not guilty to four charges, including attempted murder of U.S. officials and employees. His father has said he was misled and coerced by “a snitch.”

Bresler, who has repeatedly examined Cornell since his arrest, said Sunday was the first time he asked him to call him “Chris,” instead of “Raheel” when he met with him at Boone County Jail in northern Kentucky where he was brought recently from a federal facility. Cornell, sitting at the defense table in jail clothes with wrists and ankles shackled, appeared less gaunt than in earlier appearances and nodded and smiled at times, such as when he spotted his family.

His attorneys could still pursue a defense of not guilty by reason of insanity, although Bresler said Cornell has said he would oppose that defense. Bresler said Cornell suffers from schizotypal disorder, which can cause marked social anxiety and odd thinking, and has long had problems with depression.

He said Cornell at times has been overwhelmed by depressed, “dark” feelings, and has repeatedly expressed suicidal thoughts including just days ago. He said he has found him “crying incessantly” and unable to process information well.

He said the youth, living a lower-middle-class existence in his parents’ apartment, was socially withdrawn and spent hours alone on his computer.

“He created this identity to make him feel as if his life made a difference … to make him feel he was somebody,” Bresler said….

Cornell told WXIX-TV of Cincinnati after his arrest that he wanted to shoot President Barack Obama in the head.

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