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| American Jailed 25 Years for Trying to Join al-Qaida |
| 2015-04-21 |
| [AnNahar] An American man from a small community on Long Island was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to trying to join al-Qaeda in Yemen, prosecutors said. U.S.-born citizen Marcos Alonso Zea, 26, was thwarted in a 2012 attempt to travel to Yemen. He was intercepted by British authorities en route to the Middle East and sent back to New York. Back home and under FBI surveillance, he then encouraged a friend, Justin Kaliebe, to travel to Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... to wage jihad. After Kaliebe was tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... at New York's JFK airport in January 2013, Zea attempted to destroy myrmidon material on his computer, including al-Qaeda's online English-language magazine, Inspire. He was arrested in October 2013 and has been in jug ever since. Prosecutors said he was sentenced at a federal courthouse in Central Islip close to his home in Brentwood on Long Island. Attorney Loretta Lynch, who has been waiting months for her confirmation vote as the next U.S. attorney general, said Zea was "a chilling reminder" of the danger posed by homegrown terrorists. "Born, raised and schooled in the United States, the defendant nevertheless betrayed his country," said Lynch, currently attorney of the eastern district of New York. Zea pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and obstructing justice. Prosecutors said he plotted as early as 2011 to wage violent jihad in Yemen, the ancestral home of al-Qaeda founder the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... and the base of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... , which the U.S. considers the most dangerous franchise of the jihadist network. |
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