WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement Friday after Iraqi citizen, Waad Ramadan Alwan, pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges in Kentucky:

“Today’s plea of guilt by Alwan, who boasted of killing US troops in a warzone overseas, and bragged that his ‘lunch and dinner would be an American’, confirms that he was a combatant who was associated with enemy forces overseas.  The military should have had custody of him to begin with for purposes of intelligence, detention and punishment.”