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Jihadi Wannabe In Illinois Released To Home Confinement - Wanted To Join Al Qaeda Group
May 2, 2013
"CHICAGO – A federal judge has agreed to release an Illinois teenager charged with trying to support a foreign terrorist organization.
U.S. Magistrate Daniel Martin ruled Thursday that 18-year-old Abdella Ahmad Tounisi could be released under home confinement. The Aurora man was friends with a man charged last year with trying to bomb a Chicago bar.
The FBI says Tounisi was trying to join a terrorist group in war-torn Syria when he was arrested at an airport..."
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