2023-07-15 01:31:03
A Kosovo-born jihadist and legal US resident convicted of recruiting and sending thousands of fighters to areas controlled by the Islamic State (IS) group before his arrest in 2017 was sentenced to life in prison on Friday by a court from New York.
According to American justice, this jihadist, Mirsad Kandic, notably supervised the recruitment and the trip to areas controlled by the IS in Syria and Iraq of a young Australian, Jake Bilardi, who had perpetrated an attack at the age of 18. suicide against an Iraqi army unit, killing 30 on March 11, 2015 in Ramadi.
Born in Kosovo but living in New York when he traveled to Syria in 2013, Mirsad Kandic “sent thousands of radicalized volunteer fighters from Western countries to IS-held territories in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East,” the US Department of Justice said in a statement.
Among them was also a New Yorker, Ruslan Asainov, who became a sniper for IS, before being arrested and found guilty this year by American justice of supporting a terrorist group.
Considered a high-ranking member of IS, Mirsad Kandic was also a member of the jihadist group’s propaganda teams, leading more than 120 accounts on Twitter.
From 2017, he lived in hiding in Bosnia, but was arrested in Sarajevo, from where he was extradited to the United States.
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