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Home Front: WoT
Air Force vet convicted of terrorism gets 35 years in prison
2017-06-01
[Ynet] A US Air Force veteran
...he served from 1986-1990, but given the rest of his life, it doesn't seem to have stuck...
convicted of terrorism charges for trying to join 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 die a martyr was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison by a judge who called it a "very sad thing" that a onetime soldier would want to join a group seeking to destroy America.

The March 2016 conviction of Tairod Pugh, 49, of Neptune, New Jersey, was the first verdict from more than 70 cases the government brought against Americans accused of trying to support the Lion of Islam group.

"This isn't about whether you're a Moslem or a Christian or Jewish," US District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis told Pugh. "This is about whether you're going to stand up for your country."

The Brooklyn judge called Pugh's military service "a long time ago"
...27 years is almost a full generation...
commendable, but said the defendant squandered his training as an airplane mechanic and all the good things the United States did for him with a decision to betray his country.
Indeed.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  and die a martyr

This is what make these clowns susceptible. The rest can mostly go and play.
Posted by: gorb   2017-06-01 01:37  

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