Three US Citizens Charged With Sending Over $2000 to ISIS for Drones and RPGs

Three U.S. citizens face charges in Kansas federal court for conspiring to provide material support to ISIS, including more than $2,000 sent to an ISIS member specifically earmarked for drones and rocket-propelled grenades targeting U.S. servicemembers.

Bisaam Ghafor, 21, of Leawood, Kansas; Elias Shamsaldeen, 21, of Porterville, California; and Bereen Dzayee, 25, of Lakeside, California, were arrested and charged with the conspiracy, according to the Department of Justice announcement dated June 5, 2026.

The three pledged allegiance to ISIS and discussed carrying out violent attacks inside the United States, including stabbing servicemembers. One defendant stated he wished he could kill 300,000,000 Americans, the charging documents show.

The scope of the plot centers on direct financial and ideological support to an active ISIS operative. The $2,000-plus transfer was intended to purchase weapons for attacks on U.S. troops. All three defendants are U.S. citizens. The investigation was conducted by the FBI and the Justice Department’s National Security Division.

The arrests change the operational status of the plot from active to disrupted. Prior to the charges the three had already moved funds overseas and sworn bayat to ISIS; the new state is federal custody and prosecution in U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.

The case now moves into pretrial proceedings with no future operational window left for the defendants to complete the planned support.

Downstream the charges require the Justice Department to present evidence in Kansas federal court and trigger standard counterterrorism asset-forfeiture reviews of any linked accounts or devices. The FBI must continue to trace any additional unrecovered funds or contacts between the defendants and ISIS networks.

Other domestic agencies monitoring financial flows to designated terrorist groups will incorporate the transaction details into their pattern analysis for similar small-dollar transfers.

This prosecution is the latest federal case brought under the material-support statute against individuals inside the United States who attempt to fund ISIS operations abroad while expressing intent to conduct domestic attacks. The Department of Justice has used the same conspiracy charge in multiple prior disruptions involving small-dollar transfers and pledges of allegiance to the group.