{"id":95781,"date":"2023-04-03T09:54:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T09:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=95781"},"modified":"2023-04-03T09:54:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T09:54:13","slug":"us-citizen-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison-for-joining-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/95781\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>US citizen sentenced to 20 years in prison for joining ISIS<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 <\/strong>Emraan Ali, 55, a US citizen born in Trinidad and Tobago, was sentenced to 20 years in a federal court in Florida last week. He plead guilty to &#8216;conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization&#8217; in November 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/us-citizen-gets-20-years-joining-islamic-state-98302691#:~:text=MIAMI%20%2D%2D%20A%20U.S.%20citizen,court%2C%20according%20to%20court%20records.\">ABC News<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ali, together with his son, Jihad Ali, 22, was arrested by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Baghouz, Deir ez-Zor, in March 2019, as ISIS staged its final stand. He was consequently placed under FBI custody and transferred to the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ali had travelled to Syria in 2015 with his family in order to join ISIS. He received military and ideological training before being discharged and working in construction and trade for ISIS in its de-facto capital, Raqqa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ali also provided money remitting services to Trinidadian ISIS fighters in Syria, as well as donating his own money to the group, for which he is being tried in a US court. Ali&#8217;s son, who joined ISIS at age 15 and has admitted to having participated in combat, had previously been sentenced to five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On December 21, 2020, the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago also designated Ali pursuant its Anti-Terrorism Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US has repatriated at least 27 Americans from Syria, 10 of whom have been charged with terrorism-related offenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Reporting by Sasha Hoffman<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 Emraan Ali, 55, a US citizen born in Trinidad and Tobago, was sentenced to 20 years in a federal court in Florida last week. He plead guilty to &#8216;conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization&#8217; in November 2022, ABC News reports. 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