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American Filipino guilty of US terror charges
(MENAFN- Arab News) LOS ANGELES: An American and a Filipino national face life in prison after they were found guilty in California of plotting to aid militants overseas and to kill US soldiers.
A jury convicted Sohiel Omar Kabir 36 a naturalized US citizen and Filipino Ralph Deleon 25 at the conclusion of a six-week trial that comes as the United States leads air strikes in Syria and Iraq against militants. The trial underlined the threat that homegrown terrorists pose to the United States.
Deleon was specifically found guilty of conspiring to provide material support to Al-Qaeda to receive military-type training from the group and to commit murder kidnapping or maiming overseas.
'This case shows that the appeal of extremist ideologies can reach from Afghanistan to America' said United States Attorney Stephanie Yonekura after the trial in Riverside County east of Los Angeles.
This demonstrated 'the clear need for continued vigilance in rooting out homegrown violent militants who plot terrorist acts both here and abroad.' Two co-conspirators Miguel Alejandro Santana Vidriales and Arifeen David Gojali had already pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing.
The trial heard evidence that Kabir traveled to Afghanistan in 2012 and encouraged Santana and Deleon to come with him saying they would all join 'the students' Taleban militants and 'the professors' Al-Qaeda.
An undercover FBI agent contacted Santana and Deleon. The latter said he wanted to go abroad to wage violence while Santana said he wanted to be a sniper. In September 2012 Deleon and Santana recruited Gojali to accompany them to Afghanistan.
The three undertook preliminary training in southern California at firearms and paintball facilities.
A jury convicted Sohiel Omar Kabir 36 a naturalized US citizen and Filipino Ralph Deleon 25 at the conclusion of a six-week trial that comes as the United States leads air strikes in Syria and Iraq against militants. The trial underlined the threat that homegrown terrorists pose to the United States.
Deleon was specifically found guilty of conspiring to provide material support to Al-Qaeda to receive military-type training from the group and to commit murder kidnapping or maiming overseas.
'This case shows that the appeal of extremist ideologies can reach from Afghanistan to America' said United States Attorney Stephanie Yonekura after the trial in Riverside County east of Los Angeles.
This demonstrated 'the clear need for continued vigilance in rooting out homegrown violent militants who plot terrorist acts both here and abroad.' Two co-conspirators Miguel Alejandro Santana Vidriales and Arifeen David Gojali had already pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing.
The trial heard evidence that Kabir traveled to Afghanistan in 2012 and encouraged Santana and Deleon to come with him saying they would all join 'the students' Taleban militants and 'the professors' Al-Qaeda.
An undercover FBI agent contacted Santana and Deleon. The latter said he wanted to go abroad to wage violence while Santana said he wanted to be a sniper. In September 2012 Deleon and Santana recruited Gojali to accompany them to Afghanistan.
The three undertook preliminary training in southern California at firearms and paintball facilities.
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