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| U.S. Court Convicts Two of Conspiring to Join IS | ||
| 2016-06-23 | ||
| [AnNahar] A U.S. court on Tuesday convicted two men of attempting to help 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group in Iraq and Syria, with one attempting to travel to the Middle East. A jury found Nader Elhuzayel and Muhanad Badawi, both 25, guilty of conspiring to provide material support to the jihadist group, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement.
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in May last year, when Elhuzayel was about to board a plane from Los Angeles to ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to join the IS group. They had "used social media to discuss ISIS and terrorist attacks, expressed a desire to die as deaders, and made arrangements for Elhuzayel to leave the United States to join ISIS," the statement said, using a term for the IS group. Badawi had bought a one-way ticket for Elhuzayel to travel to Israel with a layover in Istanbul, it added. In recorded conversations, Badawi and Elhuzayel "discussed how it would be a blessing to fight for the cause of Allah, and to die in the battlefield." The two also recorded a video in which Elhuzayel swore allegiance to IS group leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... and vowed to travel to Syria to join the group, the statement said. The jury also found Elhuzayel guilty of 26 counts of bank fraud, for which he faces up to 100 years in prison. It found Badawi guilty of fraudulent use of federal funds, for which he faces up to 35 years in prison. Elhuzayel obtained money for his travel by depositing stolen checks into his personal checking accounts before withdrawing cash from three banks. Badawi used federal financial aid to purchase Elhuzayel's plane ticket. In her opening remarks, prosecutor Deirdre Eliot told the jury that the two men had shared pictures of beheadings on social media. Badawi's lawyer argued that although his client's behavior could be perceived as "un-American" and "repulsive," he did not intend to carry out an attack. Elhuzayel's lawyer Pal Lengyel-Leahu argued his client's comments on social media were merely provocative opinions that should be protected under the right to freedom of speech. Elhuzayel has Israeli citizenship, he argued, saying his client planned to travel to Israel to get married. Elhuzayel would have difficulty joining the IS group with an Israeli passport, he told news hounds after the verdict. The pair will be sentenced in September. U.S. authorities have arrested several other young people attempting to join the IS group in recent years, including a 22-year-old sentenced to 12 years in prison in June.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Badawi had bought a one-way ticket for Elhuzayel to travel to Israel with a layover in Istanbul, it added. My understanding is most countries require you to show a return ticket before you clear immigration at the airport. I guess Turkey is an exception, or is it Israel? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-06-23 11:42 |