He could face up to 20 years in prison on each of the two charges at a Nov. 2 sentencing.
NEW YORK — A U.S. Army soldier duped into thinking he was communicating online with a terrorist when it was really an FBI employee pleaded guilty Wednesday to seeking to tell terrorists how to ambush U.S. soldiers in the Middle East.
According to court documents, Bridges was 19 when he began researching and consuming online propaganda promoting jihadists in 2019. “The support I provided included tactical advice, hand-drawn diagrams of potential troop maneuvers, pages from the Army Field Manual regarding troop movements and combat tactics, and a propaganda video,” he told Judge Lewis J. Liman.
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