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US Court Documents: Maine Man Died Fighting for IS

by Associated Press

   FREEPORT, MAINE --

   Investigators say an Iranian Muslim man who came to Maine as a refugee
   in 2009 was fighting for the Islamic State group when he was killed
   last year in Lebanon.
   The Portland Press Herald reports that details about 38-year-old Adnan
   Fazeli were in newly unsealed court documents filed in federal court in
   Portland.
   The newspaper reports Fazeli, who was most recently a Freeport
   resident, became radicalized while living in Maine.
   Fazeli came under FBI investigation for his connection to Islamic State
   shortly after leaving his job at a Portland auto dealer and flying to
   Turkey in August 2013. He never came back.
   Fazeli died in battle in January 2015 as a member of an Islamic State
   force of about 150. The group was turned away by the Lebanese army.