Ex-Schoolteacher Gets 15 Years in Terror Case
A former third-grade teacher at a Muslim school was sentenced in Alexandria to 15 years in prison for providing support to a Pakistani terrorist organization.
Ali Asad Chandia, 29, who taught at the Al-Huda school in College Park, Md., is one of 11 Muslim men convicted in what prosecutors called a “Virginia jihad network.” The network involved a group of men who played paintball in the Virginia woods allegedly as a means of training for global holy war.
At his sentencing hearing, Chandia maintained his innocence and said he would exact revenge against prosecutors in the afterlife.
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