(Lexington Herald Leader) A man who came to Kentucky as a refugee has been charged with providing support to a terrorist organization.
Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic, 31, has dual U.S. and Bosnian citizenship and lived in Bowling Green, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Ramic and two co-conspirators allegedly left the U.S. in June 2014 to fly to Istanbul, Turkey, in order to support the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, also called ISIS.
Ramic and the others crossed the border into Syria to join ISIS in the war there, federal authorities charged.
Ramic allegedly attended an ISIS training camp. The FBI has photos of Ramic in ISIS territory wearing camouflage clothing, standing in front of a pickup truck that had an anti-aircraft gun, and holding a rifle, according to the release.
