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2020 Trial Set For U.S. Woman Accused Of Aiding Islamic State

Last updated on Wednesday, September 5, 2018

(HAMMOND) - A federal judge has set a January 2020 trial for an Indiana woman accused of providing material support to the Islamic State group.

Samantha Elhassani was charged last month with conspiracy to provide material support to IS, and aiding and abetting individuals in providing material support to the group.

The Post-Tribune reports the 32-year-old former Elkhart, Indiana, woman pleaded not guilty during a hearing Tuesday in Hammond. The judge set her trial for Jan. 6, 2020.

Elhassani told the BBC and PBS in April that during a 2015 vacation in Turkey, her Moroccan husband tricked her into traveling with their children to Syria, where he became an IS militant and died fighting for the group.

She and the children ended up in a Kurdish detention camp.

Information from: Post-Tribune, http://posttrib.chicagotribune.com/

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