Ibraheem Izzy Musaibli, Material Support to Terrorist Organization, Michigan 2023

A 32-year-old Dearborn resident, Ibraheem Izzy Musaibli, was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison after being convicted of providing and conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and attending an ISIS training camp.

The sentence was handed down by United States District Judge David M. Lawson in Detroit. Musaibli was convicted after a 9-day trial conducted in January 2023.

Musaibli, a natural-born U.S. citizen, was convicted on charges of providing and attempting to provide material support to ISIS, conspiring to provide material support to ISIS, and attending an ISIS training camp.

Evidence presented during the trial established that Musaibli began looking into ISIS while in Michigan in 2015. He then traveled to Yemen in April 2015 and continued to research ISIS, downloading ISIS propaganda and an ISIS book on how to get into Syria.

From Yemen, he traveled to Syria in the fall of 2015, where he attended an ISIS-run religious training camp before undergoing ISIS military training, where he learned to shoot, carry, and otherwise handle an AK-47 assault rifle.

Upon graduation from the ISIS military training camp, Musaibli swore allegiance to ISIS and its leader. Musaibli remained with ISIS for over two and a half years, fighting for ISIS against the United States and its allies, where he was wounded in battle.

Musaibli was eventually apprehended by Syrian Democratic Forces in 2018, turned over to the FBI, and flown back to the United States to face terrorism charges.

“This defendant chose to join a brutal, foreign terrorist organization and then to fight against the United States,” said U.S. Attorney Dawn N. Ison.

“For his betrayal of our nation and his fellow citizens, he is deserving of a long sentence,” Ison added.

The case was investigated by FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Hank Moon and Michael Martin of the Eastern District of Michigan with assistance from the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edmi/pr/michigan-man-sentenced-prison-providing-material-support-terrorist-organization