U.S. judge gives Canadian man life in prison for aiding Islamic State
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WASHINGTON — A U.S. choose on Friday sentenced a Saudi-born Canadian man to life in jail after he pleaded responsible in December to aiding Islamic State by working with propagandists who publicized the group’s beheading of hostages together with American journalist James Foley.
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Mohammed Khalifa, 39, who grew up in Toronto and left Canada in 2013 for Syria, killed two Syrian troopers on the group’s behalf earlier than his seize by U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in 2019, the U.S. Division of Justice stated in a press release on his sentence.
He was transferred to Federal Bureau of Investigation custody in October final 12 months and pleaded responsible on Dec. 10 to offering materials help or sources to a international terrorist group, leading to dying, the division stated.
His life sentence was ordered by Senior U.S. District Decide T. S. Ellis of the Jap District of Virginia, the place his court docket proceedings passed off.
Islamic State gained international notoriety after releasing movies in 2014 of the beheading of U.S. journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and of British support staff Alan Henning and David Haines.
Khalifa labored within the unit that publicized the movies, U.S. prosecutors stated.
