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U.S. Air Force veteran accused of Islamic State support faces trial
Source: Reuters
World | Tue Feb 9, 2016 7:06am EST
U.S. Air Force veteran accused of Islamic State support faces trial
NEW YORK | BY NATE RAYMOND
A U.S. Air Force veteran accused of trying to travel to Syria to join Islamic State is set to become the first person in the United States to face trial for attempting to support the militant group.
Questionnaires are expected to be distributed on Tuesday to the first batch of 500 potential jurors in Brooklyn, New York, in the trial of Tairod Pugh, a 48-year-old New Jersey resident charged with attempting to provide material support to Islamic State.
He is one of 80 people charged in federal cases related to Islamic State since 2014 amid a push by authorities to identify potential domestic supporters of the group, according to a Reuters analysis.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has said it has probes in all 50 states involving suspected supporters of Islamic State, which has seized control of wide swaths of Iraq and Syria.
Prosecutors said Pugh, who served with the Air Force from 1986 to 1990 and who recently worked as a commercial airplane mechanic in Kuwait, in January 2015 bought a one-way ticket from Cairo, Egypt, to Istanbul. Prosecutors said his goal was to cross the boarder into Syria to join Islamic State.
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U.S. Air Force veteran accused of Islamic State support faces trial
NEW YORK | BY NATE RAYMOND
A U.S. Air Force veteran accused of trying to travel to Syria to join Islamic State is set to become the first person in the United States to face trial for attempting to support the militant group.
Questionnaires are expected to be distributed on Tuesday to the first batch of 500 potential jurors in Brooklyn, New York, in the trial of Tairod Pugh, a 48-year-old New Jersey resident charged with attempting to provide material support to Islamic State.
He is one of 80 people charged in federal cases related to Islamic State since 2014 amid a push by authorities to identify potential domestic supporters of the group, according to a Reuters analysis.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has said it has probes in all 50 states involving suspected supporters of Islamic State, which has seized control of wide swaths of Iraq and Syria.
Prosecutors said Pugh, who served with the Air Force from 1986 to 1990 and who recently worked as a commercial airplane mechanic in Kuwait, in January 2015 bought a one-way ticket from Cairo, Egypt, to Istanbul. Prosecutors said his goal was to cross the boarder into Syria to join Islamic State.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-trial-idUSKCN0VI12I
