A Kenyan man is facing up to 15 years in U.S. prison after pleading guilty to providing money and recruits to foreign terrorist groups.
A sentencing hearing is set for Friday in Miami federal court for 27-year-old Mohamed Said, who pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to provide support to Africa's violent al-Shabaab organization and al-Qaida affiliates in Syria and elsewhere.
Prosecutors are seeking the maximum 15 years behind bars. Said's attorney wants a more lenient eight-year sentence, in part because Said never plotted against the U.S.
Said and co-defendant Gufran Mohammed were arrested in 2013 in Saudi Arabia in a case that evolved from FBI monitoring of Internet chat rooms frequented by Islamic extremists. The co-defendant is already serving a 15-year prison sentence.
