California Terrorism Update
“Yesterday in the Central District of California, Muhanad Badawi and Nader Elhuzayel—two men from Anaheim—were convicted by a federal jury of conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State. According to the complaint, Elhuzayel re-tweeted Elton Simpson’s final tweet, praising Simpson after he was killed during an attack on a conference in Garland, Texas. According to the exhibit list, Badawi also communicated with Junaid Hussain, a notorious ISIL recruiter, via Canadian messaging service Kik.”