Sami Osmakac (born December 28, 1986) is an American convicted by a jury on June 10, 2014, following a criminal trial in U.S. District Court, of plotting terrorist attacks in and near Tampa, Florida.
[9] Osmakac recorded an eight-minute video prior to his arrest describing the planned attack as retribution for wrongs committed against Muslims.
He had been under investigation since September 2011, when a confidential source informed federal authorities that Osmakac walked into a business seeking al-Qaeda flags.
[9] Osmakac appeared in videos posted to an extremist YouTube nom de guerre "Abu Samia", in which he condemned other religions and secular Muslims.
"[14] During the trial, Osmakac's defense argued that the FBI took advantage of his radical Islamic beliefs, mental illness, and destitution to entrap him into trying to commit a crime.