A New York court sentenced an ISIS supporter,
32 year old man Mufid Elfgeeh, to 22 and a half
years in prison on Thursday for trying to recruit
fighters to join the Islamic State militant group
(ISIS) in Syria. Elfgeeh owned a pizza shop
before he was arrested and convicted of
providing material support to the group.
Prosecutors said that rejected his support for
ISIS before he was sentenced, showing that the
group did not have the dedicated support that it
attempts to project.
He was arrested while he tried to buy firearms
and silencers from an undercover FBI agents
and authorities accused him of wishing to kill
American soldiers with the handguns.
"I think that, beyond any doubt, he was
interested in not only getting individuals
to join ISIS but he himself was interested
in and made overt steps to actually
engage in violence," Adam Cohen, the
head of the western New York office of
the FBI, told Democrat and Chronicle
after Elfgeeh’s sentencing.
Elfgeeh is the first American accused of
recruiting for ISIS and this is the longest prison
sentence given to an American for supporting
ISIS
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