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| U.S. Teen 'Seduced' by IS Ideology, Convicted on Gun Charge | ||
| 2015-04-23 | ||
| [AnNahar] A 16-year-old American accused of planning to join the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group has been found guilty of illegal possession of a firearm in South Carolina, a prosecutor said Wednesday. The teenager, who has not been identified because he is a minor, conspired with another person to travel to the Middle East with the intention of joining IS and "perhaps cause trouble in the United States," prosecutor Kevin Brackett alleged. Because South Carolina does not have anti-terrorism laws, the youth was convicted on Tuesday of illegal possession of a handgun, an offense punishable by up to five years in prison, Brackett said. "He was seduced by the ideology of ISIS," the prosecutor told AFP. "I don't know specifically that ISIS reached out to him personally. But he was in contact with people in North Carolina who shared his views and he had embraced this sort of radical Islamic ideology and he wanted to travel to the Middle East to join ISIS and join that cause," he said.
The youth, who was tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! in February, apologized to the court for his actions and said he did not intend to carry out his plans. "I just regret it," he said, adding he wanted "to go back to school, I want to change everything I did."
His conviction followed the arrest of six Somali Americans from Minnesota who allegedly planned to travel to Syria to join IS. They were charged on Monday with conspiring to support a terrorist organization. | ||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 He may (may he?) soon experience another type of seduction. |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2015-04-23 19:23 |
| #1 Another teen bonehead who filled his young head with ideological scat. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-04-23 16:11 |