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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And Gen. Silly Milley keeps saying that “white extremists are the major threat to the US”!
What is wrong with this picture?
not only lily white but a pepperoni pizza farhead. Bet he dont stand out in a mosque
How shocking, only the cia is allowed to support isis.
I would think being in the current woke military, it might drive one to this....or the forced vaccine did it.
Look closely at the yearbook picture. You can see that it has been altered.
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