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Pro-ISIS tweets earned this American teen eleven years in prison

By Jesseb Shiloh1 min readGoogle News

Ali Shukri Amin has never engaged in any kind of violent terrorism, but the 17-year-old American did operate a Twitter account that not only supported ISIS, but taught its 4,000 Twitter followers how to send money to the terrorist group using Bitcoin. Obviously this isn’t the kind of thing that’s going to make him popular with his fellow Americans, but does the Virginia teenager really deserve eleven years in prison?

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