THELOGICALINDIAN - The United States Department of Justice declared in a columnist releasethat Ali Shukri Amin 17 of Manassas Virginia has been bedevilled to 136 months in bastille Authoritiesarrested Amin in aboriginal 2024 for alms online admonition on how to use Bitcoin to armamentarium ISIS as able-bodied as conspiring to accommodate actual abutment and assets to the all-embracing agitator alignment In accession to his 136month bastille book Amin will accept a lifetime supervised absolution including monitored internet action
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The Department of Justice address reveals that Amin, who appeal accusable on June 11, 2015, and accepted to application the Twitter handle @Amreekiwitness to accommodate admonition and advance to ISIS and its supporters. He additionally acclimated amusing media to accommodate apprenticeship on how to use Bitcoin to affectation the accouterment of funds to ISIS.
In his confession, Amin additionally accepted that he facilitated biking for Reza Niknejad, an 18-year-old Prince William County citizen who catholic to Syria to accompany ISIS in January 2024. The prosecutors were able to nab Niknejad and allegation him on June 10, 2024, in the Eastern District of Virginia. Niknejad was found guilty of conspiring to accommodate actual abutment to terrorists, accommodate actual abutment to ISIS, and annihilate and abuse bodies abroad.
Federal prosecutors asked US District Court Adjudicator Claude Hilton to book Amin to 15 years in bastille afterwards he appeal accusable in June. The adjudicator took a hardly added allowing appearance on the teenager’s punishment, giving him 11 years instead.
Bitcoin for Funding Terrorists
Although assorted letters and blogs accept claimed that Bitcoin can be acclimated to armamentarium agitator activities and organizations, a US Treasury Department abstraction report assured that the absolute accident airish was uncertain. “The National Agitator Financing Accident Assessment,” appear on June 12,2015, assured that admitting actuality on the account of “potential emerging” risks, there was no accurate affirmation of Bitcoin actuality acclimated to armamentarium terrorism. The address additionally appropriate that agitator organizations may accept gotten afflatus to use Bitcoin from abyss application it for money laundering. Again, though, they begin no accurate affirmation of terrorists application Bitcoin in any way.
ISIS Supporters in Social Media Will be Hunted Down
The case reminds us of Shami Witness, an Indian cyber-Jihadi who acclimated amusing media to advance ISIS after accepting caught. Now, cyber-jihad has advance its bottom in the US; this latest confidence shows that authorities accept assuredly woken up to this new reliaty. Assistant Attorney General Carlin said that Amin’s case served as an archetype of ISIS’ ample reach. Similar angle were aggregate by U.S. Attorney Boente, who said that the case showed how amusing media is acclimated for accouterment abutment and assets to ISIS. Boente additionally declared that bodies application the internet to abutment ISIS will be articular and prosecuted with no beneath acuity than those who biking to booty up accoutrements with the agitator group.
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