Jaelyn Young

Jaelyn Delshaun Young is an American woman, who with fellow Mississippi State University student and her fiancé, an American man named Muhammad Oda "Mo" Dakhlalla, attempted to join ISIS in 2015. The two were students at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi when they met, and later decided to travel to Syria to join the known terrorist organization, ISIS. Young was apprehended by the FBI and ultimately pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges. U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock sentenced Young to 12 years in federal prison on August 11, 2016.

Early life and education Young is from Vicksburg, Mississippi, where she attended Warren Central High School. She graduated with honors in 2013 from Warren Central High School, and was studying chemistry at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi at the time of her arrest. He also has two older brothers. which included a hijab headscarf and a niqab face veil (often described in the media as a "burqa"). Young and Dakhlalla made statements on social media supportive of ISIS. An undercover FBI agent posed as a member of the group and Young told her that while their families did not support ISIS, she and Dakhlalla did and could lend support. Prosecutors said Young was the leader of the plot;

Both were arrested on August 8 at Golden Triangle Regional Airport near Columbus, Mississippi; they had an itinerary on Delta Air Lines to fly to Istanbul, Turkey via Atlanta and Amsterdam. They were supposed to meet their would-be recruiter at the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque) in Istanbul. He fully cooperated with investigators and gave them a series of letters that Young sent to Dakhlalla while they were imprisoned; she did not realize that he was going to cooperate with the federal government. Dakhlalla is in Federal Correctional Institution Jesup near Jesup, Georgia. doing so in Aberdeen, Mississippi federal court. She was sentenced by Aycock to 12 years in federal prison on August 11, 2016. After the prison sentence, Young would have 15 years of probation. Aycock ordered that, during the probation period, law enforcement may search Young's electronic devices to check whether she is engaging in terrorist-related activity on the internet.