A Kosovo-born US man who helped supply “thousands” of recruits to ISIS has been sentenced to life in prison on Friday for helping the extremist group.
Mirsad Kandic was a high-ranking member of the group between 2013 and 2017, when it controlled large swathes of Iraq and Syria, the Justice Department said.
In 2013, he left his home in New York and travelled to Syria where he joined ISIS, becoming a fighter near Aleppo.
Then he was directed to move to Turkey to help smuggle foreign fighters and weapons for the group into Syria, it said.
He was also an emir for ISIS media, the department said, disseminating the group's propaganda and recruitment messages online, including via more than 120 Twitter accounts.
As a recruiter, “he sent thousands of radicalised ISIS volunteer fighters from western countries into ISIS-controlled territories in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East”, the Justice Department said.
One recruited volunteer was a fellow New Yorker, Ruslan Asainov, who became a sniper for ISIS and was convicted in February of providing material support to a designated terror group.
Another was Australian teenager Jake Bilardi, who was lured into ISIS in 2014 before killing himself and more than 30 Iraqi soldiers in a March 2015 suicide bomb attack.
By early 2017, Kandic was hiding in Bosnia under a pseudonym. He was arrested in July 2017 in Sarajevo, and extradited to the US three months later.
He was convicted in a jury trial in May 2022 of conspiracy and five counts of providing support to ISIS.
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Enric Sala is an expert on marine conservation and is currently the National Geographic Society's Explorer-in-Residence. His love of the sea started with his childhood in Spain, inspired by the example of the legendary diver Jacques Cousteau. He has been a university professor of Oceanography in the US, as well as working at the Spanish National Council for Scientific Research and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Biodiversity and the Bio-Economy. He has dedicated his life to protecting life in the oceans. Enric describes himself as a flexitarian who only eats meat occasionally.
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According to the United Nations Environment Programme, all life on earth – including in its forests and oceans – forms a “rich tapestry of interconnecting and interdependent forces”. Biodiversity on earth today is the product of four billion years of evolution and consists of many millions of distinct biological species. The term ‘biodiversity’ is relatively new, popularised since the 1980s and coinciding with an understanding of the growing threats to the natural world including habitat loss, pollution and climate change. The loss of biodiversity itself is dangerous because it contributes to clean, consistent water flows, food security, protection from floods and storms and a stable climate. The natural world can be an ally in combating global climate change but to do so it must be protected. Nations are working to achieve this, including setting targets to be reached by 2020 for the protection of the natural state of 17 per cent of the land and 10 per cent of the oceans. However, these are well short of what is needed, according to experts, with half the land needed to be in a natural state to help avert disaster.
