🧵Mohamed Bailor Jalloh
Naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Sierra Leone in 1989.
He served in the Virginia National Guard but, after listening to lectures by Anwar Al-Awlaki, decided not to re-enlist.
Instead, he began supporting ISIS/ISIL.
Jollah traveled to Sierre Leone in 2025 and attempted to join ISIL. There he connected with an ISIL facilitator and other individuals who were joining the group, but he eventually decided he wasn't ready to join.
He gave the facilitator a few hundred dollars and returned to the U.S.
Just before returning to the U.S., he came into contact with Abu Saad Sudani, a member of ISIL who was planning an attack in the U.S.
Jollah sent money to Sudani to support ISIL.
In March 2016, Sudani, who was actively plotting an attack in the U.S., put Jollah in contact with an individual stateside. Sudani was hoping the two could carry out the attack.
Jalloh was aware Nidal Hassan, a former US Army Major who killed 13 people and wounded 32 others in a terrorist attack at Fort Hood, TX in November 2009.
He was considering an attack along those lines and had purchased a Glock 19 shortly after he arrived back in the US.
Jollah wasn't quite ready to die a martyr, though he did tell the individual and Sudani that he wanted to die as one at some point.
Instead, he offered to assist the operation with money and through acquiring weapons.
The individual and Jalloh started using a specific mobile messaging app to communicate about their operations.
In reality, the FBI controlled that app.
During the rest of May, through June, and into July, Jalloh researched terrorist attacks (specifically the Orlando attack) and weapons, made arrangements to purchase firearms, and sent money—all in support of ISIL and with the intention of funding and supporting a terrorist attack in the U.S.
Jalloh was arrested on July 3, 2016.
Affidavit
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Statement of Facts
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He was charged with material support of a terrorist organization.
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On October 27, 2016, a criminal information charged him with the same, and he accepted a plea agreement.
Criminal Information
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Plea Agreement
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On February 10, 2017, Jalloh was sentenced to 132 months (11 years) in prison minus time served.
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At his sentencing, his counsel told the judge,
"Mr. Jalloh is not radicalized. To the extent that he was, it was very superficial. He has renounced his affiliation with ISIS."
He asked the judge for a sentence of 78 months.
As is now tragically clear to everyone, Jalloh was radicalized and remained radicalized.
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