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U.S. v. KHWEIS

No. 17-4696.

971 F.3d 453 (2020)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mohamad Jamal KHWEIS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: August 11, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: John Mann Beal , Chicago, Illinois, for Appellant. Daniel Taylor Young , OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: G. Zachary Terwilliger , United States Attorney, Raj Parekh , Assistant United States Attorney, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee.

Affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge Rushing wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge Diaz joined. Judge Floyd wrote a dissenting opinion.

In December 2015, Mohamad Jamal Khweis, a twenty-six-year-old American citizen, sold a number of his possessions and, through a series of one-way tickets, traveled to territory in Syria and Iraq controlled by a foreign terrorist organization known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).1

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