“I failed everyone, and I failed myself.” He told the judge, “I was in a dark place when all of this happened and, looking back, I see how alone I felt.”
An unusual terrorism case in Chicago came to a close Thursday when a federal judge handed a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence to aBefore he was sentenced, Thomas Osadzinski, 23, told U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman that, "I failed everyone, and I failed myself." He told the judge, "I was in a dark place when all of this happened and, looking back, I see how alone I felt.
Prosecutors said Osadzinski designed a process that uses a computer script to make Islamic State propaganda more conveniently accessed and disseminated by users on the social media platform Telegram. In the end, the jury convicted Osadzinski of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State after a trial that featured roughly two weeks of evidence.Wells and Assistant U.S. Attorney Barry Jonas urged the judge Thursday to give Osadzinski a 15-year prison sentence. They alleged that Osadzinski had also hoped to distract the FBI by distributing Islamic State videos on Reddit.
A song in the video allegedly also urged people to "go and answer the call, don’t spare none, kill them all, it is now time to rise, slit their throats watch them die."
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