Posted on 12/12/2019 5:38:43 AM PST by karpov
A Dallas man who prosecutors said tried to recruit fighters for the Islamic State through social media, encouraged others to carry out terrorist attacks and lied to federal agents was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 years in prison.
The man, Said Azzam Mohamad Rahim, was arrested at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in March 2017 while trying to board a flight to Jordan, according to prosecutors.
During his trial in May 2019, prosecutors said Mr. Rahim, 42, used a messaging app called Zello to try to recruit the fighters and tell others to kill enemies of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS.
“Kill and do not consult anyone,” Mr. Rahim said on the app in July 2016. “Kill by any means, smash his head on the wall, spit in his face, burn — I mean anything, anything — poison, anything.”
Prosecutors said Mr. Rahim praised terrorist attacks, like the June 2016 attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., during which a gunman who claimed allegiance to the Islamic State killed 49 people and wounded 53.
Mr. Rahim was convicted by a federal jury in May of one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, one count of attempting to provide material support to the organization and six counts of making false statements to federal authorities — all felonies.
Together, the charges carried a maximum possible sentence of 88 years in prison, prosecutors said. It was not immediately clear on Wednesday night why Judge Jane J. Boyle of the United States District Court in Dallas opted for a lesser term.
“Rahim spread the violent message of ISIS online,” John C. Demers, the assistant attorney general for national security, said in a statement on Wednesday.
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A nasty, demented animal.
Destroy him quickly, save us all a few bucks.
They should send him to The SuperMax unit at ADX Florence. It is 30 years in there should be enough to isolate him from us and his evil.
Try posting MAGA on that app and see how fast they pull it down.
Destroy him quickly and perhaps save one (or more) American life.
He should be executed immediately!
“Dallas Man?” Let’s go with “Muzzie Terrorist Man.”
Mooselimb born in NJ, raised in the West Bank. “Dallas man” is not an accurate description of anything. It is disinformation, what the media does best.
Now we get to feed him.
So now he’ll recruit in prison and spread the virus.
Which is where so many blacks were recruited. Terrorists should be hanged at noon and send a message to others.
Dallas man. LOL.
So....why are we taking care of him, in one of our prisons? We will clothe, feed, medicate this creature for 30 years? While he’s incarcerated he will continue his recruiting within the prison.
Put him in a cell with Michael Moore-both of them nude.
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