,  her lawyer, Mia Eisner-Grynberg of the Federal Defenders, said to cap off a two-hour-long closing argument where she tried to dismantle each piece of the government's case.

The government did not bring to you a single witness that attended a training in 2018…. Not a single shred of evidence that there was a training, that Halima went to one,  Eisner-Grynberg said.  It scares me to death that Halima can be convicted of a terrorist offense when there was no evidence of an offense. 

Salman took the stand in her own defense, telling the jury how her father tricked her and her family, getting them into the van he said would take them to visit relatives. She told the jury that she fell asleep during the ride, and awoke in Syria, surrounded by masked men armed with long gins telling her to  Hurry!  into a madafa, a crowded guest house where women and children were held against their will.

She stayed there for three months before her father returned to get her family, and not long after, her father arranged for her to be married off to an ISIS guard named Abu Ali. She described the relationship as  horrible  - she couldn't leave the house without her husband present, she was made to serve him and his mother-in-law, both of whom belittled and body-shamed her, while bombs exploded in the ISIS-controlled territory where they lived.

 If I had a bad day, I'd try to please him so I could give myself a decent day,  she said of the selfies she sent, using a phone that had no cellular or internet connection and could only communicate through a Bluetooth app.

Salman testified she never got any sort of training, and never even saw the document purporting she had.