Posted on 06/17/2023 7:03:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
There wasn’t any reason to think Cole James Bridges was anything more than an average young American. After he graduated from high school, he worked at a Papa John’s pizza shop in Stow, Ohio, for a while, and then, in Sept. 2019, joined the U.S. Army. He got sent to Fort Stewart in Georgia, where he became a cavalry scout. Thousands of young Americans have followed paths similar to the one Bridges embarked upon, but then he took a sharp turn no one expected: on Wednesday, Cole James Bridges pleaded guilty to trying to aid ISIS’ efforts to kill American soldiers.
It’s not clear exactly when Bridges, who also sometimes went by his mother’s maiden name and called himself Cole Gonzales, converted to Islam. He may have done so before he entered the army, or by Christmas Day 2019, when he searched the Internet for “us soldier shooting,” “ak 47 downsight,” and “badass jihadi.” Less than a year after that, in Oct. 2020, Bridges began communicating with an FBI agent whom he thought was an Islamic State (ISIS) operative.
The Justice Department reported Wednesday that Bridges is now looking at spending the next forty years in prison for “attempting to provide material support to designated foreign terrorist organization and attempting to murder U.S. military service members.”
There is abundant reason to give him maximum sentence: in his conversations with the deceptive fed, Bridges “expressed his frustration with the U.S. military and his desire to aid ISIS.” He also “provided training and guidance to purported ISIS fighters who were planning attacks, including advice about potential targets in New York City.” He even gave the person he thought was his ISIS contact “portions of U.S. Army training manual and guidance about military combat tactics, for use by ISIS.”
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Traitor.
Shocked. Totally taken by surprise.
/sarc
Impossible! George W Bush says Islam is a religion of peace!
…and Barack Hussein Obama says we’re a Muslim country.
I’m going to guess he went on a crazed jihad
just one of 57!!
“...Bridges began communicating with an FBI agent whom he thought was an Islamic State (ISIS) operative.”
This sounds like another Whitmere Kidnapping setup.
I would automatically assume the FBI is the bigger threat to America.
Looks like a tire ran over his forehead.
I think a bigger story is when and why he converted. The armed forces screen new recruits for any neuroses and weed out the ones they think won’t make a good fit. (At least they try to.)
What made him think that converting to Islam would be a good idea? Is there anything about life in today’s armed forces that would encourage him to think that? We may never learn that.
Let him spend his next 40 years in a muslim country. Taxpayers shouldn’t have to feed him.
Hang him high! Sooner the better.
You are correct about the shirt. The forehead is a mess.
It’s a tee shirt.
The soldier got mixed up. The stupid FBI guy should have told him straight up that he was a law officer, that jihad is a straight trip to hell, and then meet with his parents. Sadly, the stupid FBI trapped him and made things worse. Sure he is a traitor but a young one who could easily be shown the errors of his ways.
“He got sent to Fort Stewart in Georgia, where he became a cavalry scout.”
These journalists are freaking morons.
Ft Stewart isn’t a TRADOC base, and you don’t become a cavalry scout there.
From the Army Times:
“Bridges, 20, of Stowe, Ohio, joined the Army in September 2019 as a cavalry scout and was assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Georgia. By December,he had begun searching the internet for terms including “us soldier shooting,” “badass jihadi,” and “ak 47 downsight,” according to court documents.”
If he joined in September, he’d still be in training by December because OSUT (One Station Unit Training) for 19D is 16 weeks.
So say he enlisted on 1 Sept, it would be almost a week if not more before he got to his training unit IF he shipped out on his day of enlistment.
Impossible! George W Bush says Islam is a religion of peace!
I bet you a Dollar, if you would ask that closet Marxist (m)uslim who recently pretended to be our fearless leader he would tell you the same thing.
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