Tennessee Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Running ISIS ‘Propaganda Machine’

Published on July 18, 2024

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has sentenced a Tennessee man to 20 years in prison for providing translation services to the ISIS terrorist group. Benjamin Carpenter, a 34-year-old Knoxville, Tennessee, resident who also goes by the alias of Abu Hamza, was the leader of an international organization of ISIS supporters called Ahlut-Tawhid Publications (ATP). ATP produces, translates, and distributes ISIS propaganda such as its weekly newsletter, “From Dabiq to Rome,” which praises the deaths of American soldiers while celebrating suicide bombers. The ATP called for war against the United States. According to court documents, Mr. Carpenter and ATP members regularly communicated through Telegram....

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