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MCREARY COUNTY, KY. – The Rochester man, 39-year-old Mufid Elfgeeh, who was convicted of supporting ISIS in 2016, has been indicted for attempted murder at a federal prison in Kentucky. The indictment was filed on Thursday, April 27, and does not provide any other information, except that the initials of the victim are A.J.W. Elfgeeh was born in Yemen and is a naturalized American citizen. He was the first man to be captured and convited of supporting ISIS in the United States, and was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in federal prison. He confesssed that he tried to recruit and...

The owner of a Rochester, N.Y., pizza parlor pleaded guilty on Thursday to trying to recruit people to join Islamic extremists in the Middle East. The man, 31-year-old Mufid Elfgeeh, used the Internet to find potential supporters of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), send them propaganda and support their efforts to join the extremist group in Syria, officials alleged. To spread his message, Elfgeeh used a combination of three Twitter accounts, 23 Facebook accounts and one WhatsApp account, which he used to seek out funding and support radical fighters, according to details in his plea agreement. From...

A Rochester, New York, man has been indicted on charges of trying to provide material support to the Islamic State militant group and attempting to murder U.S. soldiers, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. A federal grand jury in Rochester handed down a seven-count indictment against Mufid Elfgeeh, 30, following an investigation by the FBI's Rochester Joint Terrorism Task Force, a Justice Department statement said. According to court records, Elfgeeh, beginning last year, tried to help three people - two of whom were cooperating with the FBI - to travel to Syria to fight for Islamic State, a Sunni...

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