(Courthouse News) A Texan who joined the Islamic State group to teach English to its soldiers accused the United States of war crimes at his sentencing hearing Thursday, saying it reminded him of white supremacist bombings in the South when he saw people pulling their dead loved ones from a mosque in Syria after the U.S. military bombed it.
Warren Clark, 40, lashed out at the government and prosecutors in a lengthy statement he gave in a Houston federal courtroom. U.S. District Judge George Hanks then sentenced him to a decade behind bars and supervised release for life after he serves his time.
“In the city of Raqqa, Iraq, the U.S. military bombed a hydroelectric dam,” Clark said. “That is a war crime. … And years later the city was still in the dark and in rubble.”
