Ali Shukri Amin, 17, of Manasas, Va., was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison and having his internet activity monitored for the rest of his life for conspiring with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Amin pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization by suggesting ways Isis could use Bitcoin to dodge detection of its ventures and posting thousands of pro-terrorist tweets on Twitter.

The Washington Post reported that Amin admitted to helping an 18-year-old friend travel to fight with the terrorist group and boasted of it on his Twitter handle. By the time Amin's Twitter account was shut down, he had tweeted more than 7,000 times and attracted more than 4,000 followers.

At his sentencing, Amin said: "I made my decisions, and I am prepared to bear their fullest consequences. I became lost and caught up in something that takes the greatest and most profound teachings of Islam and turns them into justifications for violence and death."

Source: SCMagazine