A jihadist, recruiter for Daesh, was sentenced this Friday, July 14, by the New York court, to life in prison.
His name is Mirsad Kandic. Born in Kosovo and legal American resident, he is convicted of having recruited and sent thousands of fighters to areas controlled by the Daesh group, before his arrest in 2017.
According to American justice, this jihadist notably supervised the recruitment and the trip to areas controlled by Daesh in Syria and Iraq of a young Australian, Jake Bilardi, who at the age of 18 had perpetrated a suicide attack against a unit of the army. Iraqi army, killing 30 on March 11, 2015 in Ramadi.
Born in Kosovo but living in New York when he traveled to Syria in 2013, Mirsad Kandic “sent thousands of radicalized volunteer fighters from Western countries to Daesh-controlled territories in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East” , the US Department of Justice said in a statement.
Among them was also a New Yorker, Ruslan Asainov, who became a sniper for Daesh, before being arrested and found guilty this year by American justice of supporting a terrorist group.
Considered a high-ranking member of Daesh, Mirsad Kandic was also a member of the jihadist group’s propaganda teams, leading more than 120 accounts on Twitter.
From 2017, he lived in hiding in Bosnia, but was arrested in Sarajevo, from where he was extradited to the United States.
2023-07-15 07:43:04
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