(Star Tribune) One sleeve of Abdelhamid Al-Madioum’s orange sweatshirt dangled where his right arm once was as he walked into a Minneapolis federal courtroom Thursday a decade older than he was when he began devouring the terror propaganda that led him to Syria.
Ushered by a U.S. marshal, the 27-year-old St. Louis Park man took just two steps before he froze in place and smiled. At the back of the courtroom sat his parents and his two young sons who were born amid warfare and brought to the United States just last month.
“The most valuable babies,” Al-Madioum told his attorney before a federal judge would impose a 10-year prison sentence for joining and fighting for ISIS.
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