A Connecticut man was sentenced to 12-and-a-half years in prison for providing material supporting to ISIS, a foreign terrorist organization.Azizjon Rakhmatov, a New Haven resident and also a citizen of Uzbekistan, was sentenced on Thurs.
that will strike fear in the hearts of infidels. that post brought fbi agents to his front door. abdurasul juraboev admitted he would harm president barack obama, but did not have the means to do so and said if isis ordered him to he would also plant a bomb on coney island in new york city. isis online propaganda, a growing threat to the u.s. the state department says they re combatting around 90,000 tweets a day. this as the fbi says there are investigations into home-grown violent extremists in all 50 states. we know that isis is using social media to recruit. but chris, it is the digital footprint that these two suspects left. all three of them actually. the feds say helped lead them to them. because they were doing a lot of their communications online. if you were to ask people here in brooklyn s coney island neighborhood if these guys stood out, the answer no. one worked down the street at a restaurant.
heading to syria. there s just the rush to prosecution to arrest and to conviction. i just remind everyone today the presumption of innocence is the law of the land in america. reporter: the fbi took the threats from the three men who live in brooklyn who are from uzbekistan and kazakhstan seriously. starting their investigation after they say one suspect, 24-year-old abdurasul juraboev posted on an isis website in august, i m in usa now but is it possible to commit ourselves as dedicated martyrs any way while here to shoot obama and get shot ourselves? will it do? thank god we will never know if they are intent on committing acts of terror or talking. reporter: investigators claim the suspects discussed killing police, fbi agents and bombing coney island. the fbi believes they were in the early planning stages, but say this emphasizes growing concerns about the terror group s reach. the three suspects are charged
every time quiet. but federal prosecutors say 24-year-old abdurasul juraboev and his 19-year-old friend planned to fly from new york to turkey and then cross into syria to join isis. the teen s attorney says the fbi is rushing to prosecute. this is all information that is delivered to the fbi if a confidential inform the than the government says they can t rely on the credibility of. the third brooklyn man, a 30-year-old business own frer uzbekistan allegedly funded some of the efforts, according to the fbi, the men had a secondary plan this f they were unable to reach syria. that they would seek to acquire weapons here handguns machine gun and seek to attack very specifically police officers. according to court documents, abdurasul juraboev tried to make contact with the terror group in a online chat room last summer. saying to shoot obama and get shot ourselves, will it do?
posts they made on live. ashror saidakhmetov, he seemed pretty norming, the same about the 24-year-old, abdurasul juraboev, he would show up every day, deliver the salad. he was friendly and didn t stand out. that s what i think is so troubling for the people who live in this part of brooklyn, coney island neighborhood, very diverse. you can turn the corner, feel like you re in a different country, turn another corner, feel like you re somewhere else. there s a big uzbek community here. if these two young men could be recruited by isis and talk about either committing acts of violence overseas or perhaps even here in their own neighborhood where they live, very disturbing for people here, john. very disturbing, especially the kind of juxtaposition or dichotomy when you talk about the threat they may have posed. then you see these pictures,