It terrifies me that so many people don't know what ISIS is. If you're one of those people, ISIS (pronounced: ice-is) is one of, if not the most brutal terrorist groups the world has ever seen. As a matter of fact, most believe that ISIS is more dangerous than Al-Qaeda. The ISIS group is the one behind the repeated be-headings of completely innocent people. Not only does ISIS kill civilians indiscriminately but they've also threatened the United States directly.

As the world tries to figure out how to stop ISIS, federal authorities allege a 30-year-old store owner from Rochester funded ISIS, attempted to send jihadists to Syria to fight with the terrorist group and plotted to do some of the killing himself by gunning down U.S. Troops who’d served in Iraq.

The accused is Mufid A. Elfgeeh a Yemeni-born food store owner and operator who was arrested on May 30th. Federal officials only broke news of the case against him today.

According to an indictment, Elfgeeh faces three counts of trying "to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization" (ISIS), one count of attempting to kill officers and employees of the United States, two counts of having an unregistered firearm silencer and one for possessing guns or silencers "in furtherance of a crime of violence."

Officials have been investigating Elfgeeh since early 2013.  According to CNN, Elfgeeh allegedly wrote in a tweet: "Al Qaeda said it loud and clear: we are fighting the American invasion and their hegemony over the earth and the people." In another message, Elfgeeh supposedly wrote ISIS "will one day rule the world with the will of Allah."

Authorities also say that Elfgeeh had conversations with two FBI informants in which he talked about inflicting violence stateside. According to an affidavit, Elfgeeh once said he might kill "five or ten already, 15, something like that ... then we" will post video or another message online to explain why he did it.

Elfgeeh has been placed in federal custody and it looks like he might be sitting there for quite a while. The firearms possession charges alone have maximum 30 year sentences, the attempted murder charge maximum sentence is 20 years, and a count for providing material support to a terrorist group is up to 15 years.

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