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Sacramento man pleads not guilty to lying about assisting militant group
Source: Reuters
US | Fri Jan 22, 2016 7:42pm EST
Sacramento man pleads not guilty to lying about assisting militant group
SACRAMENTO, CALIF.
One of two Iraqi-born men arrested earlier this month on federal terrorism-related charges pleaded not guilty in Sacramento on Friday to a charge of lying about traveling to Syria and assisting a militant group.
Aws Mohammed Younis al-Jayab, 23, who was arrested in Sacramento, is accused of making a false statement when he said he had gone to Turkey to visit his grandmother in late 2013 and 2014. Prosecutors say that after going to Turkey, al-Jayab went to Syria and became a member of a "rebel group, militia or insurgent organization."
Al-Jayab was one of two men from the Middle East who came to the United States as refugees and were arrested on federal terrorism charges earlier this month in California and Texas.
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Sacramento man pleads not guilty to lying about assisting militant group
SACRAMENTO, CALIF.
One of two Iraqi-born men arrested earlier this month on federal terrorism-related charges pleaded not guilty in Sacramento on Friday to a charge of lying about traveling to Syria and assisting a militant group.
Aws Mohammed Younis al-Jayab, 23, who was arrested in Sacramento, is accused of making a false statement when he said he had gone to Turkey to visit his grandmother in late 2013 and 2014. Prosecutors say that after going to Turkey, al-Jayab went to Syria and became a member of a "rebel group, militia or insurgent organization."
Al-Jayab was one of two men from the Middle East who came to the United States as refugees and were arrested on federal terrorism charges earlier this month in California and Texas.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sacramento-security-idUSKCN0V1013