Ardit Ferizi wasn’t your typical Islamic State soldier. Federal prosecutors disagreed, pointing to excerpts of messages between Ferizi and well-known Islamic State recruiters that they said left little doubt he understood his work could be used in deadly ways. Ferizi, who struggled with undisclosed mental health problems, kept getting into trouble and was caught hacking into a Kosovo government database, court papers show. Drawn to the Islamic State’s rhetoric, Ferizi at first administered a website that published the group’s violent videos and literature. He next sent the information to Hussain, who was a member of Islamic State’s cyber unit.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 23, 2016 20:56 UTC