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Albanian pleads guilty to terror charges in Brooklyn | |||
2012-04-13 | |||
An Albanian who had tried to travel from New York to Pakistan to join up with the jihad and "marry with the girls in paradise" pleaded guilty Thursday to terror charges. Agron Hasbajrami, 27, who lived in Brooklyn at the time of his arrest, is now facing up to 15 years in a US prison. He has agreed to be deported after serving his time. Hasbajrami wired more than $1,000 to terror groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and began emailing with a Pakistani Hasbajrami wrote that it was difficult to get donations from his fellow Muslims when they found out that the money was intended for jihad
Hasbajrami was arrested in September 2011 at JFK International Airport in New York while attempting to board a flight to Turkey. His intent was to go from there to Pakistan to join a After his arrest, police searching his home found a note that said, "Do not wait for invasion, the time is martyrdom time." | |||
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