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Chicago man recruited for ISIS, urged jihadis to 'create confusion, spread terror'

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An Iraqi-born Chicago man faces the possibility of 130 years in prison after he was convicted of using social media to promote violent jihad and recruit operatives to carry out attacks on behalf of the Islamic State terror group.

On Friday, Ashraf Al Safoo, 41, was convicted in federal court in Chicago following his arrest in 2018.

U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey found Al Safoo guilty on one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, one count of conspiracy to transmit threats in interstate commerce and one count of conspiracy to intentionally access a protected computer without authorization.

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