A Virginia teenager who pleaded guilty to providing material support to ISIS was slapped with an 11-year prison sentence Friday,
despite family and friends’ pleas that the judge be lenient with him.
Ali Shukri Amin was arrested for running a pro-ISIS Twitter account
called Amreeki Witness, which he used to help a friend go to Syria and
to teach the Islamic State terror group how to use bitcoin to transfer
funds without a paper trail. In letters submitted before sentencing,
family members said his Crohn’s disease, congenital hand deformity, lack
or relationship with his father, and his mother’s remarriage
contributed to radicalizing him. Amin also wrote a letter apologizing to
the judge, who still sentenced him to 136 months.
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