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                      US Resident Charged with Ties to IS

   A U.S. resident has been indicted on charges of conspiracy to provide
   material support or resources to Islamic State, the U.S. Department of
   Justice said in a statement Friday.

   A grand jury indicted Mahmoud Amin Mohamed Elhassan, 26, of Woodbridge,
   Virginia, a Washington suburb, late Thursday for aiding and abetting
   the provision of material support to ISIS and making false statements
   to the FBI.

   The statement said that Elhassan unlawfully and knowingly conspired
   with another individual, Joseph Hassan Farrokh, in assisting him to fly
   overseas to join ISIS.

   Farrokh had said that neither he nor Farrokh supported ISIS, or tried
   to find someone to help them get to ISIS.

   According to the indictment, Elhassan knowingly, unlawfully and
   willfully made material false, fictitious and fraudulent statements and
   representations to the FBI about Farrokh's travel in a matter involving
   international terrorism.

   On January 15, 2016, Elhassan told FBI agents that Farrokh had departed
   Dulles Airport earlier that day to attend a funeral in California.

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References

   1. http://www.voanews.com/content/us-national-is/3348787.html