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Fri Oct 27, 2017, 06:02 PM Oct 2017

Brooklyn man sentenced to 15 years prison over Islamic State support

Source: Reuters

#U.S. OCTOBER 27, 2017 / 3:56 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

Brooklyn man sentenced to 15 years prison over Islamic State support

Jonathan Stempel, Brendan Pierson
3 MIN READ

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Brooklyn man was sentenced on Friday to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to provide material support to Islamic State.

Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, 27, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William Kuntz in the federal court in Brooklyn.

The defendant, an Uzbekistan citizen who once chopped salad at a Brooklyn gyro shop, was one of six people charged in the same case with plotting to aid Islamic State, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization.

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Authorities said Juraboev had in August 2014 posted an online threat to kill then-U.S. President Barack Obama on behalf of Islamic State, and spoke of planting a bomb on Coney Island if the group ordered it.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-security/brooklyn-man-sentenced-to-15-years-prison-over-islamic-state-support-idUSKBN1CW2TN
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