{"id":1224141,"date":"2022-01-19T09:55:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T14:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1224141"},"modified":"2022-01-19T09:55:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T14:55:53","slug":"tennessee-woman-pleads-guilty-to-attempting-to-aid-syrian-islamic-terrorist-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-woman-pleads-guilty-to-attempting-to-aid-syrian-islamic-terrorist-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Woman Pleads Guilty To Attempting To Aid Syrian Islamic Terrorist Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftennessee-woman-pleads-guilty-to-attempting-to-aid-syrian-islamic-terrorist-organization%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1224141&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Tennessee woman pleaded guilty on Tuesday to \u201cconcealing material support and resources\u201d&nbsp; which were supposed to aid a Syrian Islamic terrorist organization after an undercover investigation by the feds.<\/p>\n<p>Georgianna A.M. Giampietro, of Sparta, Tennessee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-mdtn\/pr\/sparta-woman-pleads-guilty-concealing-material-support-intended-foreign-terrorist\">admitted<\/a> her guilt at a U.S. District Court in Middle Tennessee and could face up to a $250,000 fine and 10 years in prison. The 36-year old was indicted for attempting to help a Foreign Terrorist Organization back in August 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI commend our law enforcement partners and our prosecutors who have worked diligently to investigate this case and bring this individual to justice,\u201d U.S. Attorney Mark Wildasin said in a statement. \u201cAll attempts to provide support to terrorist organizations will receive the full attention and resources of our office and law enforcement to ensure that those who engage in such activity are held accountable.&nbsp; The safety and security of the American public demands no less.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Back in September 2018, Giampietro attempted to aid an undercover agent who was trying to go overseas to become part of Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) in Syria. HTS, a militant Sunni Islamic group that has had ties to al-Qaeda, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/programs\/transnational-threats-project\/past-projects\/terrorism-backgrounders\/hayat-tahrir-al-sham\">designated<\/a> as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the State Department in May 2018. The group has been embroiled in the Syrian Civil War.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s actions notify the U.S. public and the international community that HTS is an alias of al-Nusrah Front,\u201d the State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/2017-2021.state.gov\/amendments-to-the-terrorist-designations-of-al-nusrah-front\/index.html\">said<\/a> at the time. \u201cTerrorism designations expose and isolate organizations and individuals, and deny them access to the U.S. financial system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, Giampietro provided the agent with the procedure about how to join HTS. It involved advising the agent (alongside the agent\u2019s \u201chusband\u201d who was going to fight for HTS) to cut ties with other people in the six to eight months before going to Syria, purchasing new phones, and evading law enforcement. Giampietro suggested making it to Syria via Turkey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Giampietro also communicated with contacts who she said could help the agent make it to Syria. She suggested that the agent and her husband travel to Afghanistan instead as she was reportedly told by a contact that there really wasn\u2019t any jihad going on in Syria.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The feds claim that Giampietro knew that HTS was a Foreign Terrorist Organization, and yet still intended to aid it. She gave information to the agent about how to get in touch with her contact who was supposed to aid the couple in their trip to Syria.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She used an encrypted messaging system, where the messages would sometimes delete so that they could not be read.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProtecting the United States from terrorist attacks is the FBI\u2019s number one priority,\u201d Special Agent Douglas M. Korneski stated. \u201cThis case once again demonstrates the FBI\u2019s dedication to vigorously pursue those who provide material support to terrorist organizations, and hold them accountable for their conspiratorial actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tennessee woman pleaded guilty on Tuesday to \u201cconcealing material support and resources\u201d\u00a0 which were supposed to aid a Syrian Islamic terrorist organization after an undercover investigation by the feds. Georgianna A.M. Giampietro, of Sparta, Tennessee, admitted her guilt at a U.S. District Court in Middle Tennessee and could face up to a $250,000 fine &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}