A little more than a year after he exhorted online followers to ‘kill’ military personnel and sought to buy a sex slave, a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty Monday to trying to help ISIS.
(FOX)- Jalil Ibn Ameer Aziz now faces the potential of up to 25 years in prison and a $500,000 fine after admitting to a charge of conspiring to provide material support to ISIS and to transmitting a communication containing a threat, both felonies.
“As evidenced here, [ISIS] loyalists need not travel to the field of battle to threaten lives and do harm,” said Michael Harpster, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia Division. “An American citizen provided material support to terrorists from American soil, while enjoying all the rights and privileges scorned by ISIL. We are gratified that Mr. Aziz is being brought to justice for these acts.”
Aziz, a natural born American arrested in Harrisburg in December 2015, used about 70 different Twitter accounts and an encrypted mobile messaging application to spread messages from ISIS and to help people trying to travel to territory it controls, federal counterterrorism prosecutor Robert Sander said.
In March 2015, Aziz published on Twitter a list of more than 100 American military personnel that included photos, rank and addresses, along with instructions to kill them, Sander told the judge. Aziz referred to it as an assassination list, Sander said.