Nicholas Young tried to dissuade an FBI informant from joining ISIS, even as the informant spent years cultivating him and waiting for him to do something illegal.
Mahin Khan had serious mental health and developmental issues that the FBI was aware of, family members say. The case against him involves the use of a government informant.
It’s worth noting how the messages of the Islamic State and America’s populist right reinforce each other.
Syrian jihadists in <em>Dugma: The Button</em> transform the ultimate act of self-sacrifice — dying for a cause — into a profoundly selfish act.
Military officials are considering filing charges in connection with Chelsea Manning’s suicide attempt that could make the terms of her imprisonment much more punitive — possibly including indefinite solitary confinement.
The 28 pages detail circumstantial evidence of ties among Saudi government officials, intelligence agents, and several of the hijackers.
The worst thing that could be done would be to give ISIS what it says it wants: polarization and communal hatred.
The family of a former National Guardsman from Virginia says that he was manipulated by a government informant.
A new project that compiles testimony from former ISIS members who escaped and fled to Turkey could help stifle the appeal of the group’s propaganda.
Recent shootings and assaults have amplified an already widespread climate of fear among Muslims.
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