 [BBC] A former US National Guard soldier who was convicted of plotting to aid 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Mohammed Jalloh,
| ...Sierra Leone-born Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, according to Heavy.com, was full of bright ideas about the grand jihadi massacre he would commit for the glorification of Allah. Apparently Allah doesn't want that kind of glorification, especially not from the likes of him... |
27, a naturalised US citizen, pleaded guilty in October 2016 to providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
Jalloh told Sherlocks he had also tried to travel to Libya and considered a shooting attack against US soldiers.
In September 2016, another soldier was sentenced for supporting the group.
Former National Guard specialist Hasan Edmonds was given 30 years in prison for planning an attack against soldiers at the Joliet Armory in Illinois.
Jalloh, of Sterling, Virginia, quit the National Guard after hearing lectures from radical holy man Anwar al-Awlaki
... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list...
, according to a statement from the US Department of Justice.
During a six-month trip to Africa in 2015, Jalloh met with IS members in Nigeria.
He is one of 100 people in the US to be charged with terror offences related to IS since 2014, according to the George Washington University Extremism Tracker. 
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