A US soldier who pleaded guilty to trying to provide information to the Islamic State group to help it attack American troops in the Middle East was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Friday.
Cole Bridges, 24, pleaded guilty in June of last year to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and attempting to murder US military service members.
Bridges, a private first class from Ohio, was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Friday and 10 years of supervised release, the Justice Department said in a statement.
According to court documents, Bridges, who joined the army in 2019, went from consuming online jihadist propaganda to trying to provide information to aid IS, which once held swathes of Iraq and Syria.
In October 2020, Bridges began communicating with an FBI employee who was posing as an IS supporter, the Justice Department said.
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