[ABCNEWS.GO] A former Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, college student was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for trying to aid 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.
Muhanad Badawi, 25, was also sentenced to a lifetime of supervised release during a hearing in federal court in Santa Ana. He was convicted earlier this year of conspiracy to aid a foreign terrorist organization and other crimes.
Authorities said Badawi and now-25-year-old Nader Elhuzayel
| ..the Palestinian with West Bank relatives who may or may not have an Israeli passport... |
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
The men, who were placed in durance vile
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
last year, shared their support for the Islamic State in conversation and on social media. In recorded conversations, the pair discussed how it would be a blessing "to die in the battlefield," the U.S. attorney's office said.
"The significant sentence the defendant received illustrates the gravity of this crime and the threat the defendants posed to the United States," Deirdre Fike, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles office, said in a statement.
Federal authorities had asked for the 30-year sentence for Badawi with lifetime supervised release, which is the same sentence that Elhuzayel received last month from U.S. District Judge David O. Carter.
Defense attorney Kate Corrigan, who has said Badawi never actually intended to fight for the Islamic State, had requested half the amount of prison time and 20 years of supervision, citing his lack of criminal history and age.
| Whether he himself went or not, the fact is that he knowingly arranged and paid for the other fellow's travel to Turkey and ISIS, which makes him a procurer. |
While in jug, Badawi stopped eating and dropped from 140 to 109 pounds before a judge ordered him force-fed last December.
| Spoiled college lad doesn't like life among the criminal types? |