A US soldier who pleaded responsible to attempting to supply data 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 yr to trying to supply materials assist to a delegated international terrorist group and trying to homicide US army service members.
Bridges, a personal top quality from Ohio, was sentenced to 14 years in jail on Friday and 10 years of supervised launch, the Justice Division mentioned in an announcement.
In keeping with courtroom paperwork, Bridges, who joined the military in 2019, went from consuming on-line jihadist propaganda to attempting to supply data to help 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 mentioned.
“Throughout these communications, Bridges expressed his frustration with the US army and his want to help IS,” the division mentioned.
Bridges offered “coaching and steering” to purported IS fighters, together with recommendation about potential targets in New York Metropolis, it mentioned, and data on “the way to assault US forces within the Center East.”
In January 2021, Bridges, who was based mostly at Fort Stewart in Georgia, despatched a video to the covert FBI worker of himself in physique armor standing in entrance of a flag utilized by IS fighters.
