The suburban Chicago man accused of plotting to blow up a Loop bar has written yet another letter to the Federal judge presiding over his case.
A four-page hand-printed letter offers a glimpse into the troubled mind of Adel Daoud. The 22-year-old Hillside man complains about everything from jail visits to what he perceives as anti-Islamic bias.
He writes to Federal Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, “I know I’m in jail because I’m Muslim.” He goes on to say, “You can slaughter our people and blow up all of our troops but God will reward us with paradise and replace us with people better than us... Just how God gave us Constantinople (modern Istanbul) he will give us Washington D.C.”
Daoud was just 18 when he was arrested in September 2012. He’s accused of trying to detonate a car bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar, which has since closed. The bomb was a fake planted by the FBI.
In this letter he denies making a bomb. And says, “All I did was pray, read books, hang out, play Play Station, and surf the web.”
Daoud has written a previously to the judge, accusing her of not liking Muslims and suggesting she read to the Quran to become Muslim.
Daoud has been locked in solitary confinement at the Metro Correctional Center for the last seven months.
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His attorney Thomas Durkin has argued all along that his client’s mental state has deteriorated since being locked in solitary confinement and that he is not mentally competent to stand trial.
A court-ordered report released in a pretrial hearing in October claimed Daoud was competent to stand trial, but in December both sides in the case agreed he would undergo immediate psychiatric evaluation.
