Ninth Circuit throws out terrorism enhancement, sentence for man who opened Twitter accounts for ISIS, talked about wanting to kill 10,000

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Ninth Circuit throws out terrorism enhancement, sentence for man who opened Twitter accounts for ISIS, talked about wanting to kill 10,000

SAN FRANCISCO — In a rebuke of a Bay Area federal judge’s decision, the Ninth Circuit has struck down a terrorism enhancement against a man who was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for opening six Twitter accounts for an undercover agent he believed was a member of ISIL.Amer Alhaggagi, whose last name is also spelled “Al-Haggagi” in court records, was caught on video voicing a desire to commit bombings and kill thousands of people in the …