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To: Les H who wrote (44360)11/30/2024 9:44:05 AM
From: Les H  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 51199
 
Soldier who attempted to assist ISIS in killing US troops sentenced to 14 years
He was caught communicating by a covert operative posing as an ISIS supporter.

ByJon Haworth
October 12, 2024

“Before he joined the Army, beginning in at least 2019, Bridges began researching and consuming online propaganda promoting jihadists and their violent ideology, and began to express his support for ISIS and jihad on social media,” the DOJ said. “In or about October 2020, approximately one year after joining the Army, Bridges began communicating with an FBI online covert employee (the OCE), who was posing as an ISIS supporter in contact with ISIS fighters in the Middle East.”

abcnews.go.com

army.mil

The investigators apparently had no expectation that he would network and lead them to real terrorists.