Canadian sentenced to twenty years in U.S. jail for recruiting ISIS fighters

An Edmonton man who was extradited to the usa was sentenced to twenty years in U.S. jail on Monday for serving to no decrease than a half-dozen Canadians and individuals be a part of the Islamic State group in Syria in 2013 and 2014.

Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi straight funded “violent acts of terrorism,” collectively with the kidnapping and killing of people in Syria, mentioned U.S. legal professional Randy Grossman in a press launch.

Abdullahi acknowledged in a plea settlement that he helped a resident of San Diego, Douglas McAuthur McCain, be a part of ISIS.

McCain was killed in Syria whereas stopping alongside ISIS fighters in direction of Syrian opposition forces in 2014, the foremost acknowledged American to die stopping for the militant group.

Prosecutors additionally mentioned Abdullahi provided money to 4 cousins — three from Edmonton and an 18-yr-previous cousin from Minneapolis, Minn. — to affix ISIS fighters in Syria.

the boys all died in fight, in accordance with the U.S. authorities.

He additionally admitted to robbing an Edmonton jewelry retailer in January 2014 to enhance money to fund the overseas fighters. Weeks after committing that theft, Abdullahi despatched money to McCain so he might go to Syria.

Abdullahi was indicted in California in March 2017 and arrested by Canadian authorities in September 2017.

In June 2019, the Alberta courtroom of attraction upheld his extradition and the justice division assertion says he was turned over to U.S. authorities later that yr.

Mahad Hirsi and Hamsa Kariye are two of three Edmonton males believed killed in November 2014 whereas stopping for ISIS.

McCain’s brother, Marchello McCain, was sentenced in 2018 to 10 years in U.S. federal jail for making false statements all through a quantity of interviews with federal brokers from 2014 to 2015, collectively with denying understanding that his brother deliberate to fight for ISIS.

He instructed the FBI that he thought his brother was going to Turkey to play music and educate English.

The U.S. introduced earlier this month it killed three ISIS leaders in two separate operations, collectively with a unusual floor raid in an ingredient of northeast Syria beneath authorities administration.

regardless of their defeat in Syria in 2019, when ISIS misplaced the final sliver of land its fighters as quickly as managed, the extremists’ sleeper cells have continued to maintain out lethal assaults in Syria and Iraq. ISIS fighters as quickly as held massive elements of the two nations.

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