ISIS Recruiter Mirsad Kandic Sentenced to Life in Prison
In 2013, Mirsad Kandic began working with the Islamic State, helping to advance its campaign of global jihad.
Over the next four years, he fought in at least one battle and operated from safe houses in Syria, Turkey and Bosnia, federal prosecutors said, spreading propaganda and controlling a network of pro-ISIS Twitter accounts. He was also said to have funneled money, weapons, equipment and false identifications to the group’s fighters.
And, prosecutors said, he played a role in recruiting or trafficking many of those fighters, including an Australian teenager named Jake Bilardi who eventually died as a suicide bomber in Iraq.
Last year a jury in Brooklyn found Mr. Kandic, who had lived there and in the Bronx before traveling overseas, guilty of conspiracy and of providing material support to ISIS. On Friday, he was sentenced to life in prison by Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of the Federal District Court in Brooklyn.
Source: The New York Times
