Ex-New York resident sentenced to life in prison for helping ISIS Mirsad Kandic, a Kosovo native who had lived in New York before traveling to ISIS territory, was found guilty last year of conspiracy and of providing material support to the group.

(NY Times) In 2013, Mirsad Kandic began working with the Islamic State, helping to advance its campaign of global jihad.

Over the next four years, he fought in at least one battle and operated from safe houses in Syria, Turkey and Bosnia, federal prosecutors said, spreading propaganda and controlling a network of pro-ISIS Twitter accounts. He was also said to have funneled money, weapons, equipment and false identifications to the group’s fighters.

And, prosecutors said, he played a role in recruiting or trafficking many of those fighters, including an Australian teenager named Jake Bilardi who eventually died as a suicide bomber in Iraq.

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