Abdelhamid Al-Madioum, Providing Material Support to ISIS, Minnesota 2023

Minnesota Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Providing Material Support to ISIS

A Minnesota man has been sentenced to 120 months in prison followed by 15 years of supervised release for providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.

Abdelhamid Al-Madioum, 27, of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, was sentenced for providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2339B(a)(1).

According to court documents, in June 2015, Al-Madioum departed the United States with his family to Casablanca, Morocco, to visit extended family. Once in Morocco, Al-Madioum surreptitiously fled to Syria to join and fight for ISIS.

During the following several months, Al-Madioum was administratively enrolled into ISIS, received military training from its members and assigned to a battalion. Al-Madioum served as a soldier for ISIS until late 2015 when he was injured while conducting military activities on behalf of ISIS.

Following his injury, Al-Madioum continued to provide assistance to ISIS as a personnel database administrator. He remained a member of ISIS until he was captured by Syrian Democratic Forces in March of 2019.

The FBI investigated the case, and Trial Attorney John Cella of the National Security Division's Counterterrorism Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew R. Winter for the District of Minnesota prosecuted the case.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/minnesota-man-sentenced-10-years-prison-providing-material-support-isis