{"id":28613,"date":"2012-03-04T08:29:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T15:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=28613"},"modified":"2012-03-04T08:29:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T15:29:32","slug":"nyc-man-gets-27-years-in-homegrown-terror-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/nyc-man-gets-27-years-in-homegrown-terror-case\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Man Gets 27 Years In Homegrown Terror Case"},"content":{"rendered":"
A New York City man was sentenced to 27 years in prison Friday for traveling to the Middle East in a failed bid to join al-Qaida and avenge abuse of Muslims by killing American troops.<\/p>\n
“I wish I had not gone down that path,” Betim Kaziu told U.S. District Judge John Gleason before hearing the sentence in federal court in Brooklyn. “I completely regret what I did in that phase of my life.”<\/p>\n
But Gleason said it was first time he’d hear the defendant express remorse \u2014 and that it wasn’t convincing.<\/p>\n
“You grew up in Brooklyn and you decided to murder your own country’s soldiers,” Gleason said. “There’s still an element of defiance in you. … You’re still way too proud of becoming a jihadist.”<\/p>\n