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NEW YORK, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Federal law enforcement officials Friday unsealed terrorism charges against a New York man arrested Tuesday at John F. Kennedy Airport.
Prosecutors said Agron Hasbajrami, a legal U.S. resident living in New York, was attempting to travel to tribal areas in Pakistan to join a terrorist group.
Hasbajrami, 27, is an Albanian citizen.
"In pursuing this goal, Hasbajrami exchanged e-mail messages with a contact in Pakistan who advised Hasbajrami that the contact's fighting group was engaged in violent military operations and had killed American troops," a U.S. Department of Justice release said. "Hasbajrami told his contact that he wished to travel abroad to "'marry with the girls in paradise,' using jihadist rhetoric to describe his desire to die as a martyr."
Federal prosecutors said he also sent more than $1,000 to Pakistan "to support his contact's terrorist efforts."
Hasbajrami was arrested at the airport Tuesday before he could board a flight to Turkey and was carrying a tent, boots and cold-weather gear.
He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
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