National guardsman arrested for alleged links to ISIS, plans for U.S. attack

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Two Chicago area men were arrested on Wednesday night by the FBI for "conspiring to provide material support to ISIS," according to a statement from the Department of Justice.

Army National Guard Specialist Hasan Edmonds, 22, was arrested at Chicago Midway Airport as he attempted to travel to Cairo, while his cousin Jonas Edmonds, 29, was arrested at his home in Aurora, Illinois.

The pair had allegedly intended to carry out an attack on an Illinois military facility and one of the men told an undercover FBI agent that they planned to use Hasan Edmonds’ uniforms and insider information to target the facility Read more...

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