{"id":33504,"date":"2021-08-14T14:25:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T14:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?p=33504"},"modified":"2021-08-14T13:48:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T13:48:55","slug":"kenyan-jailed-in-us-over-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kenyan-jailed-in-us-over-terrorism","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Jailed in US Over Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>A man of Kenyan origin was sent to federal prison in the United States (US) on August 12 over conspiracy to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>The accused person was born in Kenya before moving to the US where he became a citizen by naturalization.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old man was sentenced to eight years and two months in a federal prison while his brother was given six and a half years.<\/p>\n<p>The duo was sentenced by US District Judge Robert Jonker in Grand Rapids and ordered to spend another 10 years on supervised release when they end their prison terms.<\/p>\n<p>His brother told investigators he planned to travel to Somalia to join the Islamic State of Iraq and -al-Sham, a foreign terrorist organization, so that \u201cI would have to do an attack in the US.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two, together with their cousin, were tracked after they shared a post on social media indicating their plans to join the militia in Somalia. They were nabbed by FBI agents at the airport on January 21, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Defense attorneys contended that the three defendants were baited by undercover FBI agents posing as ISIS operatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNonetheless, the Defendant chose to devote himself to a brutally violent terrorist group that his dedicated to murdering US citizens and attacking US interests here and abroad,\u201d the attorney wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThe FBI\u2019s investigative efforts prevented all three defendants from joining ISIS and furthering its deadly and destructive mission. The defendant was devoted to ISIS\u2019s violent ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The government wanted the trio slapped with a harsher penalty arguing that the accused persons are capable of resuming support for ISIS and radical Islamic theology when their prison terms end.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenyan man went to the US at age of 8. He lived in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Omaha, Nebraska, then Lansing. Before that, he spent time in a refugee camp in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be difficult for anyone who was born and raised here to appreciate how difficult his youth must have been,\u201d his attorney wrote in a sentencing memorandum.<\/p>\n<p>He said his client\u2019s life \u201ctook a sharp turn\u201d when he got married and had a child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. A man of Kenyan origin was sent to federal prison in the United States (US) on August 12 over conspiracy to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization. The accused person was born in Kenya before moving to the US where he became a citizen by naturalization. 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