article_snippet: Zachary Chesser, of Virginia, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for attempting to support terrorist groups after A Muslim terror convert who tried to take his new-born baby to Somalia name appeared on the no-fly list at an airport in 2010.
article_snippet: Zachary Chesser (pictured), of Virginia, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for attempting to support terrorist groups after his name appeared on the no-fly list at an airport in 2010 .
article_snippet: Chesser wife, a Ugandan diplomat's daughter named Proscovia Nzabanita, had to leave the United States in early 2011 after pleading guilty to lying about Chesser plans the year before.
article_snippet: Chesser and his wife planned to travel together to Somalia where Chesser would join al-Shabab extremists (file picture of al-Shabab fighters)
article_snippet: Chesser and his wife planned to travel together to Somalia where he would join al-Shabab, but Nzabanita's mother hid Nzabanita's mother passport.
article_snippet: Chesser was facing a lengthy prison sentence, and Nzabanita struck a plea deal requiring Chesser to leave the country, likely for good.
article_snippet: According to Chesser's complaint, agents monitoring his prison conversations in January 2011 tipped off Chesser that the young couple was making plans for a friend to take the boy to Jordan and join Nzabanita there.
article_snippet: Chesser's name resurfaced earlier this year when the FBI named a 'close associate' of Chesser's name in northern Virginia, Liban Mohamed, to the FBI list of most-wanted terrorists.
highlights_snippet: Zachary Chesser was jailed for 25 years for attempting to support terrorists .
  
highlights_snippet: Arrested after taking Zachary Chesser child to an airport in 2010 in a bid to reach Somalia .
  
highlights_snippet: Zachary Chesser wife, a Ugandan diplomat's daughter, was told to leave the US in 2011 .
  