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\"Dept<\/a>LOS ANGELES<\/strong> \u2013 An Orange County man who admitted that he intended to assist al-Qaida by traveling to Pakistan, where he would provide weapons training to members of the terrorist group, was sentenced Monday \u00a0to 13 years in federal prison, officials said.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Court \u00a0Judge\u00a0John F. Walter, who sentenced Sinh Vinh Ngo Nguyen,<\/strong> 25, of Garden Grove, California, called the crime \u201ca very serious offense that requires a correspondingly long sentence,\u201d authorities said.<\/p>\n

Nguyen plead guilty late last year to one count of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.<\/p>\n

The FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force conducted the investigation against Nguyen.<\/p>\n

Nguyen, who also used the name Hasan Abu Omar Ghannoum, admitted that in late 2012 he travelled to Syria where he joined opposition forces. Using a social network site during a four-month period he was in Syria, Nguyen told people that he was fighting against the Assad regime and that he had had a \u201cconfirmed kill.\u201d<\/p>\n

After he returned to the United States, Nguyen told associates that he had offered to train al-Qai’da forces in Syria, but his offer had been turned down.<\/p>\n

Between August 3 and October 11, 2013 Nguyen met with a man he thought was an al-Qai’da recruiter, but who in fact was working with the FBI. Within the first few minutes of their first meetings, Nguyen began questioning the man to determine if he was a fellow jihadist, according to a plea agreement filed in federal court.<\/p>\n

Nguyen told the man about his exploits in Syria and said he wanted to return to jihad because \u201cthis was what he was born to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

During their meetings, Nguyen and the man he thought was an al-Qai’da recruiter discussed how Nguyen could travel to Pakistan under a fraudulently obtained U.S. passport.<\/p>\n

After Nguyen gave the purported recruiter a photo of himself and a passport application with bogus information, Nguyen agreed to travel to Pakistan,where he would train 30 al-Qai’da fighters for 5 or 6 weeks to prepare them “for a guerilla warfare ambush attack on coalition forces” that would take place in late 2013, according to the plea agreement.<\/p>\n

With the intention to travel to Pakistan to train al-Qai’da forces for the ambush, \u00a0officials claim Nguyen on October 1 purchased a plane ticket to travel from Mexico to Peshawar, Pakistan.<\/p>\n

On October 11, 2013, \u00a0authorities said Nguyen went to a bus station in Santa Ana, California where he purchased a ticket to Mexico and was arrested by FBI agents. When he was taken into custody, Nguyen had in his possession the false passport and a computer hard drive that contained \u201cover 180 training videos on shooting firearms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nguyen has been in federal custody since his arrest.<\/p>\n

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