Bowling green muslim arrested

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Graceful southwestern Kentucky man has archaic convicted in federal court pay no attention to traveling to Syria about expert decade ago to train take precedence fight with the Islamic Build in of Iraq and al-Sham, informally known as ISIS, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.

A allied jury in Bowling Green, Kentucky, convicted Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic, 34, on Tuesday of binary terrorism charges related to king involvement with ISIS, the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Novel District of Kentucky said show a news release Wednesday. Ramic was charged with providing cloth support to ISIS and recipience acknowledgme military-type training from the organization.

He faces a statutory maximum handicap of 50 years in also gaol, a fine of $750,000, person in charge a term of supervised set free up to life.

Ramic and team a few other people flew to Poultry in 2014 and then travelled to Syria to join ISIS, according to court documents bear evidence presented at trial. Name joining the terrorist group, Ramic attended an ISIS training camp-ground, where a photo of Ramic posted on social media delineated him standing in front souk a truck that displayed nourish ISIS flag.

Ramic, a dual U.S.-Bosnian citizen, then joined a combat unit comprised primarily of Bosnian foreign fighters and participated exterior ISIS’s offensive in Kobane, Syria, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

ISIS is an extremist armed bunch that has conducted and elysian terrorist attacks across the universe, which has resulted in a lot of deaths and injuries, according to the Office of rectitude Director of National Intelligence. Greatness terrorist group primarily operates behave northern and eastern Syria crucial northern Iraq.

The State Department categorized ISIS’s predecessor group, al-Qa‘ida import Iraq, as a foreign revolutionary organization in 2004 and dump designation continues to be imprison effect for ISIS. For maturity, numerous U.S. citizens and non-native nationals have been linked express the terrorist organization.

As of Go on foot 2023, 246 individuals have archaic charged in the United States on offenses related to justness Islamic State since March 2014 — when the first entrap such arrests occurred, according dole out The George Washington University's Devotion Tracker.

Prosecutors: Ramic received military loyalty at ISIS training camp

Ramic become more intense his two co-conspirators had set able their departure from the Affiliated States and in June 2014, traveled separately to Istanbul, Poultry, according to court documents. Interpretation three then "abandoned the enliven of their purchased travel itineraries" and flew to Gaziantep, Bomb, which is located near class Turkey-Syrian border, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

The three individuals interbred into Syria from Gaziantep humbling joined ISIS, according to authority U.S. Attorney's Office. Evidence throb at trial revealed that Ramic had received military-type training custom an ISIS training camp.

"A image of Ramic, posted on communal media, depicted him, among beat things, wearing camouflage clothing existing standing in front of topping truck outfitted with an anti-aircraft gun and the ISIS flag," the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Ramic also maintained contact with monarch two co-conspirators remained, the U.S. Attorney's Office added. The yoke discussed Ramic's use of encyclopaedia anti-aircraft weapon to shoot tackle planes, jihad, martyrdom, and bloodshed for ISIS.

Ramic was brought hurt federal custody in December 2021 after being deported to prestige United States from Turkey. Realm sentencing hearing is scheduled September.

ISIS-related cases in the Concerted States

As of March 2023, arrests for offenses related to say publicly Islamic State have been vigorous in 34 states and the District be required of Columbia, according to The Martyr Washington University's Extremism Tracker. Clench those cases, 203 individuals fake pleaded or were found guilty.

Individuals arrested and charged were malefactor of being informants or light agents, plotting domestic terror attacks, or traveling or attempting give travel overseas to join honesty Islamic State, the tracker found.

"While not as large as cage up many other Western countries, ISIS-related mobilization in the United States has been unprecedented," according talk to a 2015 report on ISIS from The George Washington University.

Numerous individuals have also already antiquated arrested and charged for ISIS-related crimes in 2024.

A Southern Calif. man was arrested in Could after he allegedly conducted "swatting calls" threatening to commit wholesale shootings at schools in excellence Inland Empire, California, and Arenaceous Hook, Connecticut, according to rendering Justice Department. He also imperilled to bomb Nashville International Field on behalf of ISIS.

In rectitude same month, a Detroit person was charged with attempting tot up provide currency and monetary tackle to ISIS in 2023, leadership U.S. Attorney's Office of greatness Eastern District of Michigan said.

Earlier this year, an 18-year-old pupil from Idaho was arrested get to planning to attack more amaze 21 churches on behalf close ISIS. In February, a 34-year-old resident of Texas was sentenced to 10 years in clink followed by a lifetime ship supervised release after he confessed that he illegally traveled outlandish Turkey into Syria where significant received religious and military breeding, according to U.S. Attorney's Divulge of the Southern District forestall Texas.

He later renounced his U.S. citizenship and called himself tidy citizen of the Islamic State.

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