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handle is hein.crs/govbixw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~* or 101 ' Researh Service Trying to Kill An FBI Agent: Sentence Too Low January 16, 2020 The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Second Circuit) on December 27, 2019, rejected as shockingly low a seventeen-year prison term imposed on a terrorist who attempted to kill an FBI agent. The defendant in United States v. u imnuni faced an eighty-five- year term under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. One member of the three-judge panel dissented in part because he did not believe that the sentence was so shockingly low as to require resentencing. Background Fareed Mumuni met Munther Omar Saleh, his co-defendant, through a college Islamic society. Saleh described himself as a full-fledged member of ISIS with a radicalizing gift. The two accompanied Nader Saadeh, their co-conspirator, when Saadeh purchased hiking boots and a compass in anticipation of Saadeh's trip to Syria to join ISIS. After his arrest, Mumuni said he had checked out flights to Turkey from New York and had begun to raise money for the trip to join ISIS. He also indicated at the time after his arrest that he planned to kill any officers who tried to stop him. Beyond overseas enlistment, Mumuni and Saleh discussed targeting police officers in this country as well. Saleh offered Mumuni a pressure-cooker bomb. Mumuni asked if it was religiously permissible to die in a suicide attack on the police. Saleh passed on an ISIS recruiter's assurance that it was. Mumuni pressed Saleh on the best way to proceed. Saleh told him to bomb the police, run over his victims with a car or truck, and use the victims' guns against other officers. Later, Saleh informed Mumuni that he planned to go on the attack and kill non-Muslims in this country. Mumuni wished him luck. That night, authorities arrested Saleh and a companion after a botched assault on an FBI agent who had been tailing them. The FBI then secured a warrant to search Mumuni's house for his cell phone. Mumuni's mother admitted the heavily armed search team. Hearing the commotion, Mumuni came downstairs from his bedroom with an eight-inch Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov LSB10394 CRS LegA! SidebaF Prpred For Meumbers and Comrm itees of Coqgr ss ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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