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| ISIS-loving Air Force vet gets 35 years at weepy sentencing | |
| 2017-06-02 | |
"This isn’t about whether you’re Moslem or Christian or Jewish," US District Judge Nicholas Garaufis told Tairod Pugh before handing down his decision. "This is about whether you’re going to stand up for your country, which has done so much for you, or betray your country. "You made your choice," the jurist growled. "I have no sympathy." Pugh, who did not testify during his trial, spoke at length Wednesday in a tangential, sometimes incoherent rant in which he attempted to explain away terrorist propaganda found in his possession, as well as maps of the border crossings from ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... into Syria. "I am a black man, I am a military man, I am a Moslem man," Pugh said before dissolving into tears. "I protected this country and the Constitution," he choked. "And my service was repaid by stripping me of my career, shaming my wife, shaming my parents, shaming my children." As he spoke to the judge, the Neptune, NJ, man -- who left his bride and children behind in Cairo when he made what he called "a one-way trip" to Turkey -- asked Garaufis to leaf through photos of him, mostly posing alongside various aircraft he’d worked on across the world. The 49-year-old was convicted last March of plotting to join ISIS and obstructing a government proceeding. Upon his capture in Istanbul in 2015, he had attempted to destroy evidence of his plot. Pugh served as an airplane mechanic for four years in the US military before he was honorably discharged and began working around the Middle East. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 He's time expired. |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2017-06-02 23:34 |
| #1 the 4 years he served in the usaf were 1986-1990 he converted to islam in 1998 and by 2001 was a fanboy of Osama B Laden he worked in avionics in various places and in 2014 was working in kuwait when he was fired by the company he worked for |
| Posted by: lord garth 2017-06-02 00:21 |