“Kodaimati later pleaded guilty. He admitted to knowing a member of the Islamic State group in Iraq and fighting alongside an al-Qaida-linked organization in Syria.” If he was waging jihad in Syria, he should not have been allowed back into the United States. The Islamic State and al-Qaeda have declared war on the United States. Their adherents should be considered enemy combatants.
“California man sentenced for lying about ISIS,” Associated Press, March 15, 2016 (thanks to Lookmann):
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Syrian-American man living in San Diego has been sentenced to 8 years in prison for lying to U.S. officials when questioned about knowing a member of the Islamic State group and for participating in combat against the Syrian regime.
Mohamad Saeed Kodaimati appeared in federal court Monday in San Diego where he was given the maximum sentence for making false statements involving international terrorism.
Prosecutors say Kodaimati denied knowing anyone in the extremist group or taking up arms when he was stopped in March 2015 on his way back from Syria. He was arrested in April at his California home.
Kodaimati later pleaded guilty. He admitted to knowing a member of the Islamic State group in Iraq and fighting alongside an al-Qaida-linked organization in Syria. His lawyer could not be reached for comment.

ainu888 says
Nobody wants a simple life anymore. Go to work, be with your child in the evenings. Read an improving book. It’s almost like two species living side by side.
ainu888 says
I would very much prefer to be a part of the following cult:
underbed cat says
Great, the U.S. public gets to pay for the legal counsel of an Syrian-American man who joined isis who fought against any other legal system but sharia. Soon the jails will be full and government legal fees will be bankrupt. No end to devious efforts to take down this country….he lied…..about his involvement to help create a caliphate, against another muslim group with the same goal, that should be almost a given.
That is always the goal…just ask the JV couch.
miriamrove says
You nailed this! Instead of deporting his ass we are going to pay 40K a year for 8 years. Is there a lawyer here among us: If so I have a question:
Are federal judges authorized to deport people? Or is it only immigration judges? M
خَليفة says
A firing squad would be better, then cremate remains and flush. No remains to family, no religious burial.
SoCalMike says
Bury them all in pig’s skin.
That would create a tangible incentive for the rest of them to stop their Mohammedan crap.
DP111 says
I hope this POS gets deported when Trump is elected.
Angemon says
8 years for treason? Talk about a slap on the wrist…
SoCalMike says
How about sentencing the judge who was “kind” enough to only give him 8 years?
Skin him alive.
I will gladly volunteer for that duty if ordered by a court.
dumbledoresarmy says
He got “eight years”.
He *ought* to be getting deported.
Right back to ruined-by-Islam Syria.
Jail him for eight years; revoke his American citizenship since he has in any case shown his absolute contempt for it by openly declaring his sole allegiance to a foreign power – Islamic State (and in any case his sole and final allegiance is to ISlam, which in practice means, the Mohammedan Mob, declared enemy of all of non-Muslim humankind); give him the boot. Drop him off on the beach in Syria in his underpants. Bed. made. lie.
Janet says
The stupidity of the Obama administration never ceases to amaze me! Let him back into the country so we can foot the bill! Why isn’t he being charged with treason? He’s fighting with a group that has threatened the United States! It makes me so angry! But we have make sure that we don’t offend any Muslims ya know!!!! Give me a break! They should have shipped his terrorist ass back to Syria so we could kill him over there and be done with it!
Atheist kaffur says
This not the real problem. Its the obvious part of the problem. The real problem is stealth Jihad and the Muslim brotherhood theocratic Fascism conspiracy. I just hope that Trump does a good house cleaning when he wins . It will take time. The brotherhood is in deep.