Webdesk: For attempting to promote Daesh, 31-year-old Pakistani doctor Muhammad Masood sentenced to 18 years in prison in the US.
“A Rochester man sentenced today to 216 months in prison, equivalent to 18 years. Its followed by five years of supervised release for attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organisation”. The US Department of Justice said.
The court filings stated Masood worked as a research coordinator at a Rochester, Minnesota, medical clinic on an H-1B visa.
According to the government statement, Masood’s behaviour from January 2020 to March 2020 demonstrated his aspirations to join the militant organisation and promote US terrorist attacks.
“Between January 2020 and March 2020, Masood used an encrypted messaging app to travel overseas to join a terrorist organisation,” the statement said.
It also said the Pakistani guy repeatedly expressed his desire to join Daesh. As well as professed his allegiance to the terrorist group and its leader.
Masood also wanted to commit ‘lone wolf’ terrorist attacks in the US.”
He acquired an airline ticket from Chicago to Amman, Jordan, to travel to Syria on February 21, 2020.
Masood revised his travel plans on March 16, 2020, when Jordan closed the border due to coronavirus restrictions.
He then flew from Minneapolis to Los Angeles to meet a someone who he felt could help him get aboard a cargo ship to Daesh-controlled area.
Masood took a trip from Rochester to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) for Los Angeles on March 19, 2020.
After arriving at the airport, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) apprehended him.
Last August 16, Masood pled guilty to trying to fund Daesh.
After FBI JTTF investigations, Senior Judge Paul A. Magnuson sentenced him to 18 years in jail on Friday.
