Posted on 11/19/2016 11:33:37 AM PST by Steelfish
Teen Who Wanted to Join ISIS Will Be Free to Start College By JAMES HILL Nov 18, 2016
An Illinois man who tried to slip out of the country to join ISIS in the Middle East should be freed from prison in time for him to begin college courses next fall, a federal judge ruled today, but he will be subject to intensive, customized monitoring and supervision for 20 years following his release.
“I hope you appreciate what has happened in this case," U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp told Mohammed Hamzah Khan at a sentencing hearing. "You are standing here as someone who was on his way to join an organization that would like nothing more than to destroy the United States. But you have not been treated as an enemy. You have been treated with respect."
Drawing a stark contrast between what he called the “barbarism” of ISIS and the “standards of civilization” in the U.S. courts, Tharp emphasized to Khan that “instead of a public be-heading, you have been given a public trial."
Khan was 19 years old when he was arrested at O’Hare International Airport in 2014, as he and his two teenage siblings, both minors, were preparing to travel overseas to join ISIS, the Syria-based terrorist group. The younger children were not charged.
As a condition of his release next August, Khan will be subject to what prosecutors and defense counsel agreed were among the strictest conditions of supervised release ever fashioned in this judicial district.
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No conditions should make it easy for someone to send him to his 72 virgins.
Heaven help the prof who messes with the guy’s 4.0.
Send him there. One way ticket.
He and the siblings should have all been executed.
My, doesn’t he look contrite, remorseful, sorry for what he has done.
get rid of the goofy hat, go to school, get a job and STFU
100%correct....
He should have gotten nothing less than a firing squad.
Hold the judge accountable for his actions
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