A man who formerly lived in St. Louis Park, Minn., has been sentenced to 120 months in prison followed by 15 years of supervised release for providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), announced U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger this week.
Abdelhamid Al-Madioum, 27, pled guilty in January 2021 to one count of providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and was sentenced on Thursday.
According to Al-Madioum’s guilty plea and documents filed with the court, on June 23, 2015, Al-Madioum and his family traveled from St. Louis Park, Minn., to Casablanca, Morocco, to visit their extended family. Once in Morocco, Al-Madioum surreptitiously fled to Syria to join and fight for ISIS.
During the following several months, Al-Madioum was administratively enrolled into ISIS, received military training from its members, and was assigned to a battalion. Al-Madioum served as a soldier for ISIS until late 2015 when he was injured while conducting military activities on behalf of ISIS. The criminal complaint states that Al-Madioum said he had been injured in an airstrike in Mosul, resulting in injuries to both of his legs and the loss of his right arm above the elbow.
Following his injury, Al-Madioum continued to provide assistance to ISIS as a personnel database administrator. He remained a member of ISIS until he was captured by Syrian Democratic Forces in March of 2019 and was eventually returned to Minnesota and charged.
Federal inmates are required to serve a minimum of 85% of their sentence incarcerated before being eligible for release, as opposed state sentencing which only requires inmates to serve two-thirds or less incarcerated before being eligible for release.
This case is the result of an investigation conducted by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.
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