{"id":24894,"date":"2019-08-29T20:30:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T20:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/08\/29\/convicted-air-force-veteran-to-be-resentenced-for-trying-to-join-isis\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:38:15","slug":"convicted-air-force-veteran-to-be-resentenced-for-trying-to-join-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2019\/08\/29\/convicted-air-force-veteran-to-be-resentenced-for-trying-to-join-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted Air Force veteran to be resentenced for trying to join ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NEW YORK \u2014 A U.S. Air Force veteran was properly convicted on terrorism charges for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2015\/03\/17\/former-airman-charged-with-trying-to-join-isis\/\" target=\"_blank\">trying to join the Islamic State group <\/a>and die a martyr, an appeals court said Thursday, but it ordered a judge to resentence him and better explain his reasons behind any penalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2017\/05\/31\/air-force-vet-gets-35-years-in-prison-for-trying-to-join-islamic-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tairod Pugh<\/a>, 51, of Neptune, New Jersey, is serving a 35-year prison sentence, the maximum possible penalty he faced after a Brooklyn jury convicted him in 2016 of trying to provide material support to a terrorist organization and obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the first verdict in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2016\/02\/20\/1st-u-s-trials-of-suspected-islamic-state-sympathizers-begin\/\" target=_blank>more than 70 cases<\/a> the U.S. brought against Americans suspected of supporting the militant group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pugh\u2019s lawyer Eric Creizman didn\u2019t respond to requests for comment Thursday. <\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2015\/03\/20\/family-shocked-by-air-force-vet-s-terror-charges\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/null.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Family shocked by Air Force vet&#8217;s terror charges<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The aunt of a Neptune man accused of plotting to join the terrorist group ISIS said she is in disbelief that Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh could commit such acts.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors said Pugh, who was an airplane mechanic in the Air Force from 1986 to 1990, was seeking a route into Syria to join the Islamic State group in 2015 when he was stopped at a Turkish airport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They said he had a laptop with information on Turkey-Syria border crossing points; 180 jihadist propaganda videos, including footage of an Islamic State prisoner beheading; and a letter declaring: \u201cI will use the talents and skills given to me by Allah to establish and defend the Islamic States.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trial evidence included a letter Pugh wrote to his wife saying, in part: \u201cThere is only two possible outcomes for me: Victory or martyr.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A three-judge panel of the 2nd Circuit in Manhattan said in a written ruling that the letter to his wife was properly allowed into evidence and that other challenges by defense lawyers to the trial provided no basis to overturn the verdict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it also said U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. 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