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California man pleads guilty to attempting to fund and arm ISIS

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A US citizen in California has admitted trying to provide money, weapons and equipment to ISIS over a five-month period in 2025, dealing throughout with undercover officers. The case is a conventional material-support prosecution, but the funding mechanics, repeated small payments routed to someone posing as an ISIS member, are the detail worth the few minutes for anyone mapping terrorist-financing typologies.

  • Akhtar pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization, on October 30, 2026.
  • Between February and June 2025 he made financial payments on multiple occasions to a person he believed was an ISIS member but who was an undercover officer.
  • On June 23, 2025 he handed an undercover agent clothing, binoculars, $400 cash, two loaded guns and six magazines, then swore bayat to ISIS.
  • He faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine at sentencing on February 26, 2027.

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Ammaad Akhtar, 34, of California and a US citizen, pleaded guilty on October 30, 2026 to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the Department of Justice said. Sentencing is scheduled for February 26, 2027 before…

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https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/california-man-pleads-guilty-attempting-provide-material-support-islamic-state-iraq-and-al
Published by DOJ Criminal Division · 30 Oct 2026
Read by Regulus 13 Nov 2026 at 03:12 UTC
18 factual claims checked against this document · 0 unsupported
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