{"id":37666,"date":"2013-09-21T05:46:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T09:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37666"},"modified":"2013-09-21T05:46:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T09:46:13","slug":"eric-harroun-pleads-out-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37666","title":{"rendered":"Eric Harroun pleads out, released"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might remember Eric Harroun, the Army veteran who was arrested last Spring<\/a> for supporting terrorists while he was fighting against the Assad government in Syria. Well, apparently, federal prosecutors reached a deal with him, but court documents are sealed, and he’s been sentenced to time served, according to the Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Court records document Thursday’s guilty plea and Harroun’s sentence of time served. But the plea agreement itself is sealed. The statement of facts, a detailed description of the illegal conduct supporting the guilty plea, is also under seal. The initial charges in March against Harroun and his subsequent indictment were both trumpeted in Justice Department press releases. No press release was issued about Harroun’s guilty plea.<\/p>\n

The few documents that are not sealed indicated that federal sentencing guidelines call for a term of three to four years for Harroun, even under the reduced charge to which he pleaded. But prosecutors asked the judge to impose a lighter sentence for reasons that were not explained publicly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Harroun said he indeed started out fighting with the Free Syrian Army, but that in a hasty retreat from one battle he ended up in a truck with Jabhat al-Nusra. Harroun told authorities that al-Nusra initially treated him warily, but that he eventually gained their trust and joined them in several more battles, even using a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.<\/p>\n

But Kamens argued that Harroun, who spoke limited Arabic and was discharged from the Army after suffering a serious head injury, was simply confused about the rebel groups and mistakenly assumed he had joined up with al-Nusra when really he hadn’t. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I just hope he gets some help, because it doesn’t seem that he’s wired too tightly. Maybe that should have been part of the plea deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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