(Washington Post) Mohammed Chhipa led a double life, by his own attorney’s telling, spreading online propaganda for the Islamic State with “bravado and bluster” while he was brooding in Northern Virginia as “a lonely, sad and deflated man” secretly being monitored by the U.S. government for a decade.
Federal prosecutors said he then took a darker turn, fleeing the country after agents searched his Fairfax County home in 2019 and sending funds over the next three years to an Islamic State operative who had broken out of a refugee camp run by the Syrian Defense Forces and was working to free other women.
After a week-long trial, a jury in U.S. District Court in Alexandria agreed Friday, convicting Chhipa on all charges, including conspiracy and providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
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