(WATE) Following an eight-day trial, a jury has convicted Benjamin Carpenter, 31, from Knoxville of attempting to provide material support to ISIS.
Carpenter is a United States citizen and according to court documents, he was the leader of Ahlut-Tawhid Publications, an international organization dedicated to the translation and publication of pro-ISIS and official ISIS media in English. Using his alias “Abu Hamza,” he published a weekly newsletter that celebrated the deaths of American soldiers, glorified suicide bombers and called for open war against the United States.
In 2020 and 2021, Carpenter contacted someone he believed was associated with ISIS, however, it was a covert FBI employee.
