Court Case

USA v. Musleh, Akram

June 2016 (Updated June 24, 2019)
Brownsburg, IN
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)

[SDIN] Akram Musleh from Brownsburg, Indiana was arrested for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Musleh was arrested by FBI agents while attempting to board a bus from Indianapolis to New York, where he was to fly to and transit through Morocco on his way to ISIL-controlled territory. The criminal complaint alleged that he planned to provide personnel (himself) to ISIL. Musleh was convicted of attempting to travel to join ISIS and sentenced to 100 months' imprisonment.

Case Updates

2019-06-24 | Brownsburg Man Sentenced for Attempting to Travel To Syria to Join ISIS

Akram Musleh from Brownsburg, Indiana was sentenced to 100 months' imprisonment in connection with a plot to travel from the United States to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Musleh had been on the radar of the Indianapolis FBI Field Office ever since the summer of 2013, when Musleh began posting videos of Anwar Awlaki, a member of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), on his various social media accounts, and praising Awlaki's ideology. In June 2015, officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) intercepted Musleh before he could board a flight from Chicago O'Hare Airport to Iraq and Turkey. CBP searched Musleh's bags and discovered several journals which contained quotes from multiple members of designated terrorist organizations, including Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Al Qaeda in Iraq, and ISIS.

https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/3950.pdf

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