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New York man sentenced to jail for 15 years in plot to join a terrorist group
A New York City man has been sentenced to 15 years behind bars for trying to go to Pakistan to join a radical jihadist insurgent group.
Updated on: Jan 9, 2013, 09:21:32 IST
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A New York City man has been sentenced to 15 years behind bars for trying to go to Pakistan to join a radical jihadist insurgent group.
Agron Hasbajrami received the prison term on Tuesday in federal court in Brooklyn.
The 28-year-old Albania citizen and legal US resident had pleaded guilty last year to providing material support to terrorists.
Prosecutors say he sent more than $1,000 abroad to help terrorist activities in Pakistan and Afghanistan and communicated with someone in Pakistan who said he was a member of an armed group that had murdered American soldiers.
Authorities also say he expressed a desire to die as a martyr.
Hasbajrami was arrested at Kennedy Airport in 2011 while attempting to go to Pakistan.
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