A Kosovo-born American who helped recruit 'thousands' of fighters for the Islamic State has been sentenced to life in prison, the US Department of Justice announced in a statement, according to the Washington Post. The ministry said that Mirsad Kandyk, 40, was a high-ranking member of ISIS between 2013 and 2017 during its control of vast areas of Iraq and Syria. He left New York in 2013 and traveled to Syria, where he joined ISIS and became a fighter in the town of Haritan near Aleppo. Then he was directed to move to Turkey to help smuggle foreign fighters and weapons for the organization into Syria, and he was an “emir” in ISIS media, which he took charge of spreading its propaganda and recruitment messages online, including through more than 120 Twitter accounts. The ministry added that, as a recruiter, he had 'sent thousands of volunteers of extremist ISIS fighters from Western countries to the territories controlled by the organization in Syria and other places in the Middle East.' By the beginning of 2017, Mirsad Kandic was hiding in Bosnia under an assumed name, before he was arrested in July 2017 in Sarajevo and then extradited to the United States.
A Kosovo-born American who helped recruit 'thousands' of fighters for the Islamic State has been sentenced to life in prison, the US Department of Justice announced in a statement, according to the Washington Post. The ministry said that Mirsad Kandyk, 40, was a high-ranking member of ISIS between 2013 and 2017 during its control of vast areas of Iraq and Syria. He left New York in 2013 and traveled to Syria, where he joined ISIS and became a fighter in the town of Haritan near Aleppo. Then he was directed to move to Turkey to help smuggle foreign fighters and weapons for the organization into Syria, and he was an “emir” in ISIS media, which he took charge of spreading its propaganda and recruitment messages online, including through more than 120 Twitter accounts. The ministry added that, as a recruiter, he had 'sent thousands of volunteers of extremist ISIS fighters from Western countries to the territories controlled by the organization in Syria and other places in the Middle East.' By the beginning of 2017, Mirsad Kandic was hiding in Bosnia under an assumed name, before he was arrested in July 2017 in Sarajevo and then extradited to the United States.
A Kosovo-born American who helped recruit 'thousands' of fighters for the Islamic State has been sentenced to life in prison, the US Department of Justice announced in a statement, according to the Washington Post. The ministry said that Mirsad Kandyk, 40, was a high-ranking member of ISIS between 2013 and 2017 during its control of vast areas of Iraq and Syria. He left New York in 2013 and traveled to Syria, where he joined ISIS and became a fighter in the town of Haritan near Aleppo. Then he was directed to move to Turkey to help smuggle foreign fighters and weapons for the organization into Syria, and he was an “emir” in ISIS media, which he took charge of spreading its propaganda and recruitment messages online, including through more than 120 Twitter accounts. The ministry added that, as a recruiter, he had 'sent thousands of volunteers of extremist ISIS fighters from Western countries to the territories controlled by the organization in Syria and other places in the Middle East.' By the beginning of 2017, Mirsad Kandic was hiding in Bosnia under an assumed name, before he was arrested in July 2017 in Sarajevo and then extradited to the United States.
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