June 20 (UPI) -- An Alabama man was sentenced to 15 years in prison and a lifetime of parole for attempting to offer material support to the Islamic State, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday.
The sentence comes after Aziz Ihab Sayyed, 23, pleaded guilty in March to buying bomb-building ingredients in 2017 with "aspirations to conduct Islamic State-inspired attacks on police stations and Redstone Arsenal, a U.S. Army Base in Madison County, Ala.