Men who surrendered in an Islamic State (IS)-occupied area near Baguz, Syria in March 2019, are being monitored by the Siri Amin State Army (SDF). Baguz (Syria) = Reuters Yonhap News
An active duty US soldier was captured by investigating authorities who handed over military information to FBI agents disguised to help the Islamic State (IS), an extremist Sunni armed terrorist group, attack New York, USA.
US investigative authorities, including the Ministry of Justice, New York Southern Federal District Prosecutors’ Office, and the FBI, announced on the 19th (local time) that they arrested Private Cole James Bridges, 20, on charges of assisting IS in attacking US troops in the Middle East. . Private Bridges, also known as Cole Gonzalez, is a cavalry reconnaissance member of the 3rd Infantry Division in Port Stewart, Georgia.
Bridgings, who enlisted in September 2019, according to the authorities, has been engrossed in online propaganda defending jihadists (Islamic templeists) and their radical ideas from about that year. Bridges, who even expressed his support for IS through social network service (SNS), said, “I want to help IS,” when an FBI secret agent disguised as “an IS sympathizer in contact with IS fighters in the Middle East” approached online last October. ”
Bridges, who believed the secret agent to be a true IS sympathizer, advised the agent on potential targets of attack in New York, including the 9/11 memorial facility, and handed the US Army training manuals and military tactical guides. It turned out that in December of last year, IS combatants attacked and killed US troops stationed in the Middle East and advised on how to avoid attacks by US special forces. This month, he sent a picture of himself posing in front of a flag used by IS fighters to the agent.
“Bridges is accused of providing advice and guidance on how to kill his fellow soldiers to someone he believed to be a member of the IS,” said John Demus, Assistant Secretary for National Security at the Department of Justice. It’s a terrible thing to do.”
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