[ARABNEWS] The brother of a San Diego man believed to be the first American citizen killed while fighting alongside the ISIS in Syria has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on terrorism-related charges.
Marchello Dsaun McCain was sentenced Friday in federal court in San Diego for illegal possession of a cache of firearms and body armor and making false statements to federal agents about international terrorism.
McCain is the brother of Douglas McCain who was killed in 2014 in Iraq while fighting alongside the ISIS in Syria.
| A bit of a geographical conundrum there. I was under the impression ISIS kept the foreign jihad tourists in the Syrian side of the border. |
The United States unsealed a two-count indictment charging Canadian national and former San Diego resident Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi with conspiring with Douglas McCain and others in the United States and Canada to provide support to forces of Evil in Syria. |