A New York man was sentenced Friday to 200 months, more than 16 years, in prison for attempting to provide material support and resources to the designated foreign terrorist organizations the Islamic State and the al-Nusrah Front.<\/p>\n
Elvis Redzepagic, 30, of Commack, pleaded guilty in April 2021. According to court documents, in early 2015, Redzepagic began communicating with an individual he believed to be both the commander of a battalion in Syria and a member of ISIS or the al-Nusrah Front, and made attempts to join that individual\u2019s battalion to engage in violent jihad. In July 2015, Redzepagic traveled to Turkey and made multiple unsuccessful attempts to cross the border into Syria. Unable to enter Syria from Turkey, Redzepagic traveled to Jordan in August 2016, but was stopped and deported by Jordanian authorities.<\/p>\n
In Facebook messages from October 2015, Redzepagic explained that \u201cjihad\u201d is when \u201cyou fight for the sake of God\u201d and \u201cdie for the sake of Allah.\u201d Redzepagic stated that he traveled to Turkey to \u201cperform Jihad and join Jabhat Al-Nusra.\u201d He predicted, \u201cthere will come a time where people will only know to say Allahu Akbar.\u201d In subsequent interviews with law enforcement, Redzepagic admitted that at the time he attempted to enter Syria, he was prepared to strap a bomb to himself.<\/p>\n
A search of the defendant\u2019s laptop yielded a variety of ISIS-specific extremist propaganda, including ISIS nasheeds, or Islamist hymns, including the \u201cISIS Anthem\u201d in English. Redzepagic also repeatedly accessed the website \u201cPut hilafeta,\u201d or \u201cWay to the Caliphate,\u201d a Bosnian-language website for prospective foreign fighters from the Balkans who primarily sought to join ISIS and wage jihad in Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A New York man was sentenced Friday to 200 months, more than 16 years, in prison for attempting to provide material support and resources to the designated foreign terrorist organizations the Islamic State and the al-Nusrah Front. Elvis Redzepagic, 30, of Commack, pleaded guilty in April 2021. According to court documents, in early 2015, Redzepagic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3507,"featured_media":166513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n