(WFLA) A Tampa man has pleaded guilty in federal court to trying to provide funding and firearms to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS.
Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari, 26, pleaded guilty to trying to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida. USAO said he was convicted of advocating for another armed Islamist group in 2015, called Jaysh al-Islam, and “participating in the Syrian conflict, in Saudi Arabia.”
Al-Azhari spent three years in custody in Saudi Arabia before “being removed to the United States,” according to USAO.
When he got to the U.S., around December 2018, he was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for “potentially providing material support to ISIS.”
