Washington, United States:
A US soldier who pleaded responsible to making an attempt to offer info to the Islamic State group to assist it assault American troops within the Center East was sentenced to 14 years in jail on Friday.
Cole Bridges, 24, pleaded responsible in June of final 12 months to making an attempt to offer materials help to a chosen international terrorist group and making an attempt to homicide US navy service members.
Bridges, a non-public top quality from Ohio, was sentenced to 14 years in jail on Friday and 10 years of supervised launch, the Justice Division stated in a press release.
At present, Pfc. Cole Bridges was sentenced to 14 years in jail for making an attempt to offer materials help to a chosen international terrorist group, and making an attempt to homicide U.S. navy service members, primarily based on his efforts to help ISIS to assault and kill U.S. troopers. pic.twitter.com/2yQXQt8REv
— Military Counterintelligence Command (ACIC) (@Real_ArmyCI) October 11, 2024
In response to courtroom paperwork, Bridges, who joined the military in 2019, went from consuming on-line jihadist propaganda to making an attempt to offer info to assist IS, which as soon as held swathes of Iraq and Syria.
In October 2020, Bridges started speaking with an FBI worker who was posing as an IS supporter, the Justice Division stated.
“Throughout these communications, Bridges expressed his frustration with the US navy and his want to assist IS,” the division stated.
Bridges supplied “coaching and steering” to purported IS fighters, together with recommendation about potential targets in New York Metropolis, it stated, and knowledge on “how one can assault US forces within the Center East.”
In January 2021, Bridges, who was primarily based at Fort Stewart in Georgia, despatched a video to the covert FBI worker of himself in physique armour standing in entrance of a flag utilized by IS fighters.
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