U.S. man gets longest sentenceever for supporting ISIS

A New York court sentenced an ISIS supporter,

32 year old man Mufid Elfgeeh, to 22 and a half

years in prison on Thursday for trying to recruit

fighters to join the Islamic State militant group

(ISIS) in Syria. Elfgeeh owned a pizza shop

before he was arrested and convicted of

providing material support to the group.

Prosecutors said that rejected his support for

ISIS before he was sentenced, showing that the

group did not have the dedicated support that it

attempts to project.

He was arrested while he tried to buy firearms

and silencers from an undercover FBI agents

and authorities accused him of wishing to kill

American soldiers with the handguns.

"I think that, beyond any doubt, he was

interested in not only getting individuals

to join ISIS but he himself was interested

in and made overt steps to actually

engage in violence," Adam Cohen, the

head of the western New York office of

the FBI, told Democrat and Chronicle

after Elfgeeh’s sentencing.

Elfgeeh is the first American accused of

recruiting for ISIS and this is the longest prison

sentence given to an American for supporting

ISIS