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U.S. woman found guilty of training with ISIS in Syria
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U.S. woman found guilty of training with ISIS in Syria

The Seattle Times The Seattle Times·Santul Nerkar and Miles G. Cohen·about 12 hours ago
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NEW YORK — A woman who was taken to Syria as a teenager was convicted Tuesday of charges that she trained with the Islamic State terror group.

The woman, Halima Salman, a U.S. citizen from Brooklyn who was brought to territory controlled by the Islamic State group by her father when she was 17, was found guilty by a federal jury after a weeklong trial and three days of deliberation.

After the verdict was read, Salman, 27, buried her head in her hands and started sobbing, as did Mia Eisner-Grynberg, one of her lawyers.

When the door shut behind the last juror to leave the courtroom, Salman embraced her mother in the front row. “I love you so much, Mom,” she said as she kissed her mother on the top of her blue headdress. Her mother wept and then collapsed.

Salman, who faces up to 10 years in prison at sentencing, is believed to be the first woman accused of being a member of the Islamic State group to stand trial in federal court.…

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