Man gets 8 1/2 years for efforts to aid Islamic State
Haris Qamar mused about committing violence on behalf of the Islamic State, drinking slurpees of blood and chopping off heads. On Twitter, he celebrated terrorist attacks.
"The stuff I said was horrible, I know that," the 26-year-old told a federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia on Friday before being sentenced to 8 ½ years in federal prison.
"Those words have come back to haunt you," Judge Leonie M. Brinkema told the Northern Virginia man. "You've just destroyed your mother and your father, and they came to this country to make a better life for you and your siblings."
The case illustrates both how the Islamic State lures in adrift young Muslims and how judges who set punishments often must square awful ideas with meager deeds.
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