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Home Front: WoT

US Female Fighter Gets 3 Years In Prison For Supporting Syrian Terrorist

2023-01-26

#US court sentences a female Army veteran to three years in prison for supporting a terrorist in #Syria with whom she has fallen in love. https://t.co/iwg6SSAzY6
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) January 25, 2023

A federal judge in the US sentenced on Tuesday a female Army veteran to three years in prison after she pleaded guilty to sending money and providing guidance to a terrorist in Syria with whom she fell in love.

US Department of Justice said, in an immediate release, Maria Bell,

...more fully Maria Sue Bell of Hopatcong, Sussex County, New Jersey, the lonely widowwoman who fell for a smooth Al Nusra conman...

55, from Sussex County and used to be a member of the US National Guard, provided the terrorist with money and military intelligence.

She was involved in the concealment of attempted provision of funds or other material support or resources to terrorist factions, including Jabhat Fath al-sham

… Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (Front for the Conquest of Syria/the Levant) was Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria’s first name change in 2016, as part of the pretense that they broke from the Al Qaeda organization, before they renamed themselves Al Nusra…

and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS, formerly al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front) in Syria.

She provided fighters with the information she had got from her experience in specialized weapons training.

In addition, Bell was sentenced to five years of supervised release, according to the release.

Bell sent about $3.150 via Western Union to her lover, who was a bad boy of HTS, according to a complaint in US District Court.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI
FBI

...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
) agents arrested her at her home in November 2020 as she was obtaining travel tickets to ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
for that same day.

The FBI agents found in her home 136 operable handguns and rifles,

...apparently mostly antiques that she inherited from her dead husband...

15 canisters of ammo and a short-range rocket launcher.

PJ Media has more, including her other than honourable discharge from the military in lieu of a court martial, and that her beloved’s name was Abdullah Flayes.

Posted by:badanov

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