Wednesday, September 10, 2014

The US tries to corner the IS militants – gets a teen girl to turn approver


19-year-old Shannon Maureen Conley was arrested at Denver airport on April 8 as she prepared to board a flight for Istanbul, via Frankfurt nzherald.co.nz. She was preparing to fly to Turkey to join a jihadist whom she had agreed to marry, and who was fighting in Syria.
Conley was initially charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. If convicted, she had faced up to five years in jail or a $250,000 fine, or both. But, she has now turned approver and pleaded guilty to trying to help IS, in a deal with prosecutors requiring her to tell all she knows about the jihadist network in Syria and Iraq.
The prosecutors announced a plea deal in which she admitted conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and, in exchange, the prosecutors agreed not to charge her with any other criminal activity.
She has also agreed to "cooperate and debrief (investigators) completely and truthfully... concerning her knowledge of other individuals involved in providing or attempting to provide material support... to any terrorist organization." She was planning to join the Islamic State fighter, a 32-year-old Tunisian identified only as "Y.M." according to court documents. A certified nurse aide, she had allegedly agreed to get engaged to him and join him in Syria, where she offered to provide any help she could either as a nurse or in any other capacity.
In preparation for her mission, Shannon Conley had joined up with the US Army Explorers (USAE) last September to be trained in.
Hopefully, she would be able to provide the investigators with useful information that could put a stop to the murderous designs of the Islamic State militants.
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