US Jails Bosnian Immigrant for Financing ISIS

A court in Saint Louis in the US on Tuesday jailed a 43-year old Bosnian immigrant, Jasminka Ramic, for three years for financially supporting ISIS terrorists.

Ramic on September 28, 2015, admitted handing $700 to a fellow Bosnian immigrant who then gave the money to an intermediary in Istanbul.

"I recognize I made a mistake and did something I was not supposed to," Ramic told Judge Catherine Perry, reports said.

Ramic was a resident of Rockford, Illinois, who obtained US citizenship in 2006.

According to US media reports, Ramic and her husband were experiencing financial hardship and her sole source of income was a monthly social security check of $579. In 2012, they declared bankruptcy.

She was arrested on February 11 in Germany, where she had flown in order to escape arrest in the US.

Ramic is one of a group of six US citizens originally from Bosnia who were arrested in February 2015 and accused of conspiring to provide terrorists with "material support and resources, including money and property (including US military uniforms, combat boots, military surplus good, tactical gear and clothing, firearms accessories, optical equipment, rifle scopes)", the indictment reads. She was the only one to plead guilty.

According to the indictment, she and the other members of this group - Ramiz Hodzic, Sedina Hodzic, Nihad Rosic, Mediha Salkicevic and Armin Harcevic - used Facebook, PayPal, Western Union and the US Postal Service to coordinate shipments of a total sum of around $8,500 and material supplies through an overseas intermediary.

The recipient of the aid was Abullah Ramo Pazara, another US citizen of Bosnian origin,  who left the US in 2013 and joined the war in Syria, where he...