A Nigerian, Lawal Babafemi, 35, also known as Ayatollah Mustapha, accused of receiving weapons training from al Qaeda’s Yemeni affiliate, among other contributions, for the group’s English-language media operations, has been sentenced to 22 years in U.S. prison.

Babafemi was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge John Gleeson in Brooklyn after pleading guilty in April 2014 to providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Babafemi told Judge Gleeson that he was “extremely sorry” and that he now denounced Al Qaeda.

His lawyer, Lisa Hoyes, noted that he had been advising another of her clients- who is in jail on charges of trying to join ISIS — to avoid terrorism, New York Times reports.

“It’s hard to conjure a more serious offense,” Judge Gleeson said in handing down the sentence. He noted, however, that Mr. Babafemi’s recent denunciations of terrorism factored slightly in his favor. “I wish I had a better feel for how genuine it is,” the judge added.

Prosecutors had sought up to 30 years in prison for Babafemi, who was extradited from Nigeria in 2013 after being arrested several times two years earlier on local terrorism charges.

Babafemi’s court-appointed lawyer in Brooklyn was not immediately available for comment on Wednesday afternoon.

Prosecutors said that from January 2010 to August 2011, Babafemi travelled from Nigeria to Yemen twice to meet with leaders of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, known as AQAP.

During his time with that group, Babafemi, who went by the name “Ayatollah Mustapha,” worked on AQAP’s media operations, including its magazine “Inspire,” prosecutors said.

He and two other individuals including a Vietnamese man named Minh Quang Pham contributed writing and editing, prosecutors said, and Babafemi became close with Samir Khan, a U.S. citizen who was Inspire’s editor.

Together, the men appeared in the magazine in a photograph, wearing camouflage and holding rifles, authorities say.

After Khan and Pham had the idea of recording rap songs as AQAP propaganda, Babafemi began writing lyrics about jihad, prosecutors said.

The group’s leadership, including Anwar al-Awlaki, paid Babafemi almost $9,000 to recruit English speakers from Nigeria, prosecutors said.

Khan and Awlaki, a U.S. citizen born in New Mexico, were killed in U.S. drone strikes in Yemen in 2011. Pham was extradited to the United States in March and is awaiting trial.
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http://dailypost.ng/2015/08/13/us-sentences-nigerian-al-qaeda-member-lawal-babafemi-to-22-years-in-jail/

22 years is too small please and I hope he is put in solitary confinement in a maximum security prison.






lalasticlala, Ishilove. your attention pronto.

Hmmm... INTROVERT


Muslim extremist... .. . Anyway I wish him a good time in prison...

See im forehead.

Islamabad.

I think say na only igbos dy commit crime?

Ok

He should have gotten a life sentence sef

See his forehead, that blackspot signifies extremism of the highest order. Islam is a curse on earth

Nonsense he should die terrorism shouldn't be taken gently

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ishiamu:
Nonsense he should die terrorism shouldn't be taken gently

this your moniker though..

Is he a yoruba man?

200 yrs would be better

some people are always in the news for the wrong reasons

was extradited from Nigeria in
2013 after being arrested several times two years
earlier on local terrorism charges.

What happened to those charges after the said arrest in Nigeria.
...
...

Flop! Revers to life sentence before accepted.

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that's good. nice one for the criminals.

imagine, I decided to be a good citizen yesterday night by switching on my WiFi/hotspot without password. can you imagine that I have 8 users already connected to me in 10 minutes with 358mb drained instantly. in fact those those data terrorist needed to be jailed too.

"Babafemi told Judge Gleeson that he was
“extremely sorry” and that he now denounced Al
Qaeda."

Medicine after Death!

dayo23:
See his forehead, that blackspot signifies extremism of the highest order. Islam is a curse on earth

and ur fam!ly is a complete wa$te on earth

zinachidi:
this your moniker though..

Werin do am?

H

22 YRS IS TOO SMALL
SPOILING NIGERIA'S NAME AROUND THE WORLD......ALL IN LOVE OF MONEY.

my own advice.....increase the jail term oooooo....make them no even comot the jail

ok

22 years for what...


To do training don turn offence for Yankee?

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#Sarcasm

Ok