(AP) An East African man imprisoned in Texas for terrorism was convicted Friday of trying to recruit fellow prisoners to join the Islamic State group and plan attacks in the United States, federal prosecutors announced.
A jury found Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, 45, guilty of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and making a false statement to the FBI after a seven-day trial, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Texas.
In 2013, a federal judge in New York sentenced Ahmed, an Ethiopian national born in [Eritrea], to more than nine years in prison after he pleaded guilty to conspiring to support terrorism. Prosecutors said he attended an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in 1996 and was a member of a network that gave financial and logistical [support to] other terrorist groups.
