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Two former Western Kentucky University students became ISIS terrorist recruits and trained in Syria while attending the Bowling Green school, according to court records.
One of the then-students issued a warning in an email to WKU in June 2015 after he left the U.S. saying, in part: "In sha Allah [God willing] when we conquer the U.S. I will look for you." This was disclosed in the federal court case of the students' associate, Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic, filed in the Western District of Kentucky. The Courier Journal reported Ramic's arrest and sentencing last month and has learned new details of the case through a review of court filings.
The university shared the emails with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Louisville field office.
The other student apparently died in 2015 during a conflict in Iraq and was referred to as a martyr by the other two, according to a criminal complaint filed by an FBI agent against Ramic, who lived in Bowling Green. Ramic did not attend WKU but was in regular communication with the two students.
Five messages left with WKU's Communications and Marketing Department and spokesman Jace Lux seeking comment from July 9-16 were not returned. Court documents don't reveal when the students first came to Kentucky.
Two former Western Kentucky University students became ISIS terrorist recruits and trained in Syria while attending the Bowling Green school, according to court records.
One of the then-students issued a warning in an email to WKU in June 2015 after he left the U.S. saying, in part: "In sha Allah [God willing] when we conquer the U.S. I will look for you." This was disclosed in the federal court case of the students' associate, Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic, filed in the Western District of Kentucky. The Courier Journal reported Ramic's arrest and sentencing last month and has learned new details of the case through a review of court filings.
The university shared the emails with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Louisville field office.
The other student apparently died in 2015 during a conflict in Iraq and was referred to as a martyr by the other two, according to a criminal complaint filed by an FBI agent against Ramic, who lived in Bowling Green. Ramic did not attend WKU but was in regular communication with the two students.
Five messages left with WKU's Communications and Marketing Department and spokesman Jace Lux seeking comment from July 9-16 were not returned. Court documents don't reveal when the students first came to Kentucky.
