On November 7, 2018, Senior U.S. District Judge Roslyn O. Silver sentenced Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah, aka Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Ahmad, of Syria, to life in prison plus 30 years for crimes related to bomb construction in Iraq. The Department of Justice (DOJ) press release states that he “was found guilty by a federal jury on March 16, 2018 of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, conspiring to maliciously damage or destroy United States property by means of an explosive, aiding and abetting other persons to possess a destructive device in furtherance of a crime of violence, and conspiracy to possess a destructive device in furtherance of a crime of violence.” Alahmedalabdaloklah designed, made, and supplied parts for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) for an Iraqi insurgent group that opposed the U.S. military in Iraq between 2005 and 2010, and then subsequently moved to China where he continued to provide parts for IEDs for the group. He was detained in 2011 in Turkey before being extradited to the U.S. in 2014.