Abdella Ahmad Tounisi of Chicago has been arrested by the FBI after being accused of planning to join an Al Qaeda -linked group fighting in Syria.
According to the Huffington Post, the 18-year-old teen was taken into custody on Friday before trying to board a plane to Turkey at Chicago’s O’Hare airport.
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The site reports:
It added that Tounisi was a friend of Adel Daoud, an American accused of trying to stage a bombing outside a downtown Chicago bar last year. The agency said Tounisi had not been involved in that plot.
Tounisiappeared before a U.S. magistrate on Saturday on one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. He was ordered held until his next court appearance on Tuesday, the FBI said.
A criminal complaint accused Tounisi of making online contact in March with a person he thought was a recruiter for Jabhat al-Nusrah, the militant Islamist Syrian group that the U.S. government calls a foreign terrorist organization operating as a wing of al Qaeda in Iraq.
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Apparently the recruiter was an undercover agent working for the FBI, which is how they got their lead on Tounisi.
He also sent emails stating how he planned to get to Syria, and was willing to die in the Syrian struggle.
We’re glad this man has been caught and we hope justice is served.
