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发帖数: 6571 | 1 For the first time, the FBI has charged a law enforcement officer in the
United States with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic
State.
The accused, a 36-year-old transit police officer in Washington, D.C. named
Nicholas Young, was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday at the Metropolitan
Police Headquarters, according to the Washington Post.
Young was caught in an FBI sting operation, in which an undercover operative
for the Joint Terrorism Task Force convinced him to provide “codes for
mobile messaging cards that Young believed would be used by Islamic State
fighters overseas to communicate,” as the Washington Post reports.
NBC News more specifically details that Young attempted to buy 22 mobile
messaging gift cards for ISIS. He had a total of 20 meetings with an FBI
informant who was posing as an Islamic State fighter.
ABC News reports that Metro police “initiated” the probe into Young, who
has been under investigation by the FBI for “several years,” as outlined
by Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority CEO Paul Wiedefeld in a
memo to his colleagues on Wednesday morning.
Wiedefeld also notified his colleagues that Young was fired, “effective
immediately.”
“Since I received my first briefing on this matter, [Metro Transit Police]
Chief [Ronald] Pavlik and I have worked hand-in-glove with the FBI in the
interest of public safety and to ensure that this individual would be
brought to justice,” Wiedefeld said in a statement quoted by Fox News.
Young has been working for the D.C. Metro police since 2003 despite being
monitored by the FBI since 2010, and traveling to Libya twice in 2011 to
fight alongside rebel forces against the regime of Moammar Qaddafi. NBC
quotes prosecutors describing him as “a longtime supporter of Islamic
extremism” who also has “Nazi sympathies.”
It seems incredibly risky to have left him in his position for so long, but
officials assured the media he “did not pose any threat to the Metro system
,” as the Associated Press puts it.
Young is scheduled to make his first court appearance today, and could face
up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/08/03/d-c-area-transit-cop-busted-supporting-islamic-state/ | u***n
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: For the first time, the FBI has charged a law enforcement officer in the
: United States with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic
: State.
: The accused, a 36-year-old transit police officer in Washington, D.C. named
: Nicholas Young, was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday at the Metropolitan
: Police Headquarters, according to the Washington Post.
: Young was caught in an FBI sting operation, in which an undercover operative
: for the Joint Terrorism Task Force convinced him to provide “codes for
: mobile messaging cards that Young believed would be used by Islamic State
: fighters overseas to communicate,” as the Washington Post reports.
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