WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 31st October, 2018) A US court has sentenced a dual citizen of Algeria and Ireland to 15 years in prison for attempting to recruit extremists in the United States and Europe, the Department of Justice said in a press release.
"Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers and United States Attorney William M. McSwain for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced that an Algerian man was sentenced today to 15 years' imprisonment for conspiring to provide material support and resources to terrorists," the release said on Tuesday.
Ali Charaf Damache, 53, pleaded guilty in July to charges of conspiring to support terrorism by attempting to recruit Islamist extremists in the United States and Europe for attacks on targets throughout Europe and South Asia.
Damache will be deported to Ireland or Algeria after completing his sentence in the United States, the release said.
US authorities extradited Damache from Spain in July 2017.
