Posted on 12/12/2014 7:36:06 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Shannon Maureen Conley was just 19, barely out of high school and a convert to Islam, when she fell in love with a Tunisian man who said he was an Islamic State fighter in Syria. And, according to a criminal complaint, she wanted to leave her Denver suburb and join him.
Over the course of five months the FBI talked to Conley nine times, trying to persuade her not to go to Syria.
But it didn't work. According to a local news report, her father tipped off the FBI after he found her one-way ticket from Denver to Turkey.
Conley was arrested boarding that flight at Denver International Airport. She pleaded guilty to terrorism charges and now faces up to 15 years in prison.
Her case raises a new question for law enforcement about how to handle cases with Americans who seem more naive than an actual terrorist threat.
In another case, three Denver schoolgirls were recruited by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, on social media.
The girls are minors — 15, 16 and 17 — and the Justice Department says because of their age, it is unlikely they will face charges for leaving the U.S. to join a terrorist group. But if they had been adults, that might have been a harder call.
US officials say that many Americans are going to Syria for humanitarian reasons, or even for love.
And that makes the decision about charging people with terrorism offenses very murky.
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Here Comes Abu Boo Boo!
I say let the go swim in the Darwinian cesspool of Islam.
It all depends on if they have been recruited to join terrorist group(s). My next door neighbor when I was a child was of Syrian and Lebanese heritage. Her mother was part Syrian. If she had visited Syria, there would have been no threat. She was Catholic. And my Lebanese neighbors were and still are Catholic. But profiling would be wrong. Lol
I guessing they will be captured and held for ransom and Øbama will pay . . .
I say let the foolish bimbos go, but do not let them return. They will soon learn how charming it is to live under sharia law.
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