Tweeting for Terror Sends Teen to Prison
The Virginia teenager who pleaded guilty last year to helping Islamic State militants received a sentence Friday to 11 years in federal prison.
Ali Shukri Amin, 17, of Manassas, Va., posted on Twitter about how to use the virtual currency Bitcoin to send funds to militants.
He also helped another Virginia teen, 18-year-old, Reza Niknejad travel to Syria in January to join the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
After pleading guilty in June, U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton was sentenced today to 136 months in prison.
That term will followed by a lifetime of supervised release and monitoring of his Internet activities.
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