Earlier as we speak in federal courtroom in Brooklyn, Parveg Ahmed was sentenced by United States District Decide Ann M. Donnelly to 153 months’ imprisonment and 15 years supervised launch for one rely of trying to offer materials assist or sources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS), a overseas terrorist group. The defendant pleaded responsible to the cost in June 2018.
Breon Peace, United States Legal professional for the Japanese District of New York, Matthew G. Olsen, Assistant Legal professional Common of the Justice Division’s Nationwide Safety Division, Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Cost, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Area Workplace (FBI), and Keechant L. Sewell, Commissioner, New York Metropolis Police Division (NYPD), introduced the sentence.
“Ahmed practically fulfilled his objective to hitch a gaggle of violent terrorists who’ve killed quite a few harmless victims, together with Americans, and expressed that he deliberate to battle in opposition to ‘the West’ if he made it to Syria,” acknowledged United States Legal professional Peace. “In the present day’s sentence demonstrates {that a} vital jail sentence is the top outcome for radicalized people pursuing a misguided path of terror and violence.”
Mr. Peace thanked the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Process Power for its exemplary work on the case.
“The defendant willingly traveled abroad in an try to hitch ISIS so he may take part within the group’s violent acts of terror. The FBI New York Joint Terrorism Process Power, together with our legislation enforcement companions, stay unwavering in our dedication to guard the American individuals. As as we speak’s sentence ought to reveal to all, we are going to proceed to make sure these wishing to partake in acts of terror face the implications within the prison justice system.”
“An American citizen, Ahmed traveled to the Center East with the only real intention of betraying his personal nation by taking over arms in opposition to it within the identify of ISIS,” acknowledged NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell. “Figuring out and stopping people like this earlier than they will hurt america and our persons are the beliefs upon which the Joint Terrorism Process Power was established. I commend and thank the investigators from the NYPD, FBI, and all of our accomplice businesses on the nation’s first JTTF, right here in New York Metropolis, for his or her tireless work on this necessary case.”
As detailed in publicly filed courtroom paperwork, Ahmed is a United States citizen who traveled to Saudi Arabia in June 2017, purportedly to rejoice an Islamic non secular vacation. Upon his arrival in Saudi Arabia, Ahmed tried to journey to Syria to hitch ISIS. Ahmed was apprehended in a Center Japanese nation throughout his tried journey to ISIS-controlled territory.
Beforehand, Ahmed had repeatedly expressed assist on social media for ISIS and for people who supplied assist to the overseas terrorist group’s mission of violent extremism. On July 17, 2017, JTTF brokers obtained a search warrant for his private laptop, and discovered that he had considered or listened to recordings of radical Islamic clerics Anwar al-Awlaki, a United States-born cleric and outstanding chief of the overseas terrorist group al Qaeda within the Arabian Peninsula, who was killed on or about September 30, 2011, and Abdullah el-Faisal, a Jamaican-born cleric, who was discovered responsible in the UK of solicitation to commit homicide for preaching to followers to kill people, together with Individuals, as a result of he deemed them to be enemies of Islam. Ahmed was deported to america on August 28, 2017, the place he was arrested at John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport. Subsequent evaluate of digital units present in Ahmed’s possession when he was detained trying to journey to Syria additionally revealed draft messages explaining that the defendant deliberate to hitch ISIS in Syria to wage violent jihad and expressing farewell to the defendant’s members of the family. Particularly, a draft message acknowledged “[W]e have made it to Dawlatul Islam [ISIS] in Syria. In sha Allah [God willing] we are going to be part of the Jihad very quickly and in Sha Allah [God willing] we are going to then be part of the ranks of the Shuhuda [martyrs]. The West has invaded the land of the Muslims and is consistently attacking it.”
The federal government’s case is being dealt with by the Workplace’s Nationwide Safety & Cybercrime Part. Assistant United States Attorneys Craig R. Heeren and Meredith A. Arfa are accountable for the prosecution, with help from Paralegal Specialist Magdalena St. Surin and Trial Legal professional John Cella of the Nationwide Safety Division’s Counterterrorism Part.
The Defendant:
PARVEG AHMED
Age: 27
Ozone Park, Queens
