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Iraqi refugee jailed 16 years in the US for supporting ISIS
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A refugee from Iraq was sentenced by a Houston court Monday to 16 years in prison for seeking to join ISIS and learn bomb-making skills.
Only sixteen? Originally it was twenty-five....and he was arrested less than two years ago, so the decrease isn’t compensation for an overly long trial.
Omar Faraj Saeed al-Hardan,
...who appears in our archives without the hyphen, thusly: Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan, which explains why the Homeland Security no-fly lists are such a mess...
a 25-year-old of Paleostinian origin who was born in Iraq and lived in refugee camps in Iraq and Jordan, was accepted into the United States in 2009.

He earned his permanent residency two years later and, according to US law enforcement, in 2013 began communicating with another refugee in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,,
...another young gentleman of the Palestinian persuasion who grew up in so called refugee camps in Iraq...
discussing traveling to Syria to fight for the al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
h group.

The next year, he discussed with an FBI informant his hopes of traveling to fight with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group and a desire to be trained in making detonators for improvised bombs.

He and the FBI informant also practiced shooting with an AK-47, and Hardan posted statements in support of ISIS online, according to the Justice Department.

He was tossed in the calaboose
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
 in January 2016 and charged with providing material support to ISIS.

"Any person who provides material support to a foreign terrorist organization will be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," said Acting US Attorney Abe Martinez.

President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
 has slashed by more than half the country's annual intake of refugees and placed restrictions on other immigrants colonists, saying it is a conduit for potential turbans to enter the United States.
So it would seem.
Separately, a former Washington-area transit police officer
...a thirteen year veteran at the time in question...
who converted to Islam was convicted of trying to help ISIS.

Nicholas Young, 37, had tried to help another man join up with ISIS, only to find that the other man was an undercover FBI informant.
That happens quite a bit, oddly enough.
Oddly, Young was also called a neo-Nazi by prosecutors,
...both are violently supremacist worldviews, but Islamofascism is more respectable nowadays, as well as more violent. Mr. Young (his nom de guerre was no doubt Abu Idiotullah al Amriki) is treading a path long ago made wide and smooth by real Nazis who found sanctuary in the Arab world...
while his lawyers defended him as simply someone with quirky hobbies.
Trying to get to Syria to murder and rape is a quirky hobby? The lawyer is definitely operating on the “throw it all up against the wall, and hope something sticks” philosophy.
He faces up to 60 years in prison.
Posted by: Fred 2017-12-19
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