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Man arrested in ISIS plot due in Florida court

March 3, 2015 Associated Press
New York Police Commissioner William Bratton, second from left, and Diego Rodriguez, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s New York field office at the ISIS arrest press conference last week. AP photo
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — One of three men arrested on charges of plotting to help the ISIS group wage war against the U.S. is scheduled to appear in a Florida courtroom for a detention hearing.

Abror Habibov was arrested in Jacksonville last week and charged with attempt and conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist organization.

The 30-year-old Habibov ran cellphone repair kiosks at malls in Virginia, Florida and Georgia, and federal prosecutors say he helped fund 19-year-old Akhror Saidakhmetov’s efforts to join ISIS in Syria.

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Saidakhmetov and another man, 24-year-old Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, were arrested in Brooklyn.

Habibov, a native of Uzbekistan, is held without bail in Florida.


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