Saturday, December 28, 2013

California man pleads guilty to volunteering for Al Qaeda on Facebook


If you run into an Al Qaeda recruiter on Facebook, there's a good chance they're actually working for the FBI. It's a lesson 24-year-old Sinh Vinh Ngo Nguyen of Garden Grove, California learned the hard way. Between August and October, Nguyen met several times with a man he'd met on Facebook who he believed to be a recruiter for a Syrian Al Qaeda campaign — but on October 11th, the recruiter revealed himself to be a federal counterterrorism officer.


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