Tennessee Man Convicted of Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS | The Gateway Pundit

A Tennessee man has been convicted of trying to supply materials assist to ISIS.

Benjamin Carpenter, 31, of Knoxville, Tennessee, aka Abu Hamza, was convicted on October 19, following an eight-day trial.

The Division of Justice defined in a press release that Carpenter “served because the chief of Ahlut-Tawhid Publications, a global group of pro-ISIS ‘munasirin’ (i.e., supporters), devoted to translating, producing and distributing ISIS propaganda all through the world.”

“For years, Carpenter, utilizing his alias ‘Abu Hamza,’ revealed a big physique of ISIS media, together with his weekly publication ‘From Dabiq to Rome,’ a periodical that, amongst different issues, celebrated the deaths of American troopers, glorified suicide bomber, and referred to as for open struggle towards the USA and its Western allies,” the DOJ mentioned within the press launch.

The DOJ alleges that Carpenter contacted an secret agent whereas trying to supply translation providers for ISIS’s foreign-language media arm.

“In 2020 and 2021, Carpenter contacted a person he believed to be affiliated with ISIS’s central media bureau and supplied translation providers for a mission supposed to relaunch Al-Hayat Media Heart, ISIS’s official foreign-language media arm. Unbeknownst to him, that particular person was an FBI undercover worker who had infiltrated Carpenter’s group,” the Division of Justice mentioned.

Carpenter informed 10News in 2021, he believed his conduct was protected by free speech.

The Knoxville Joint Terrorism Activity Pressure, which consists of federal, state, and native legislation enforcement companies, investigated the case with help from FBI Discipline Places of work throughout the nation.

Carpenter has not been sentenced however faces as much as 20 years in jail and a lifetime of supervised launch.