Arizona Man Sentenced for Providing Material Support to ISIS

Ahmed Mohammed El Gammal, 46, a resident of Arizona, was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for providing and conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, aiding and abetting the receipt of military-type training from ISIS, and conspiring to receive such training. A jury convicted El Gammal of these charges on Jan. 30, 2017, following a three-week trial.

Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers and U.S Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman for the Southern District of New York made the announcement. U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos presided over the trial and issued the sentence.

According to documents publicly filed in this case and evidence presented at trial:

Beginning in at least April 2014, El Gammal was an outspoken online supporter of ISIS and ISIS’s Caliphate, or Islamic government, in Syria. Among other things, El Gammal announced on social media that he was “with” “[t]he State of Iraq and the Levant,” referring to ISIS; celebrated ISIS’s achievements in battle and announcement of the establishment of a Caliphate; proclaimed that he “support[s] jihad everywhere”; and declared that “[b]eheadings have a magical effect.” El Gammal additionally announced that “[i]f Daesh [i.e., ISIS] gets to Egypt, I will go join them, so I can torture the Egyptians, and whip them.”

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/arizona-man-sentenced-providing-material-support-isis

Trump Warns Fed Ahead of Key Policy Meeting

The US central bank is expected to raise benchmark rates but turn dovish on rate hikes in 2019, say analysts

WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump on Dec. 18 called again on the Federal Reserve to refrain from hiking interest rates ahead of the central bank’s two-day policy meeting. Trump urged the Fed to “feel the market” before making its decision.

The Fed is broadly expected to raise its benchmark interest rate after the conclusion of its meeting on Dec. 19. If it raises the rates, it would be the fourth rate hike of 2018 and the ninth one since the central bank started inching rates up from nearly zero percent three years ago.

The Fed’s decision has an impact on everyone from consumers to investors. There’s a 69 percent chance that the policymakers will raise interest rates by a quarter percentage point, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch tool, which measures market-based expectations for future rate hikes.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-warns-fed-ahead-of-key-policy-meeting_2742852.html

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