US soldier pleads guilty in botched plot to help ISIS attack 9/11 memorial

[Kamaji]

US soldier pleads guilty in botched plot to help ISIS attack 9/11 memorial

By Priscilla DeGregory
June 14, 2023

A US soldier pleaded guilty Wednesday in an attempted plot to try and help ISIS launch terror attacks on a 9/11 memorial in Manhattan and on American fighters abroad, prosecutors announced.

Army Pfc. Cole Bridges began communicating with people he believed were various members of the terrorist organization ISIS in October 2019 and told them that the Ground Zero memorial was “a key target,” for a “sniper kill,” according to prosecutors.

Bridges, a 22-year-old calvary scout from Ohio who had joined the army just months earlier, soon learned that a single undercover FBI agent was posing as phony ISIS fighters, prosecutors said.

The turncoat — who also went by the alias “Cole Gonzalez — tried to help the phony plotters kill his fellow soldiers in the Middle East by giving them parts of an Army training manual and a combat training video, officials claimed.

Bridges — who was based out of the Third Infantry Division in Fort Stewart in Georgia — pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court Wednesday to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and attempted to murder US military service members. He faces up to 20 years behind bars at his Nov. 2 sentencing.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/06/14/us-soldier-pleads-guilty-to-terrorism-charge-in-isis-plot-case/

[PeteS in CA]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gscut1p4kY

[rangerrebew]

Soldier pleads guilty to planning ISIS attacks on US troops
By Jaime Moore-Carrillo
 Jun 14, 05:45 PM
 
An Army private first class has pleaded guilty to plotting the murder of U.S. service members on behalf of the Islamic State, government prosecutors announced Wednesday.

The soldier, Cole Bridges, also pleaded guilty to trying to provide material assistance to ISIS. A months-long FBI investigation into Bridges’ social media posts culminated in the 22-year-old Ohio native’s arrest in January 2021.


Bridges joined the Army in September 2019, according to court documents. He served as a cavalry scout in the 3rd Infantry Division based at Fort Stewart, Georgia.

In August 2020, in the weeks leading up to a three-month rotation to Germany, Bridges began posting jihadist propaganda on his social media accounts under the moniker “Cole Gonzales,” prosecutors claim. Screenshots of Bridges’ Facebook page feature quotes from Salafist preachers exalting “war between Islam and Kufr [infidels]” and photos of his M4 rifle captioned with verses and emojis popular with the Islamic State group.

https://www.armytimes.com/flashpoints/extremism-disinformation/2023/06/14/soldier-pleads-guilty-to-planning-isis-attacks-on-us-troops/

[rangerrebew]

Milley will probably insure he gets a medal and promotion.