(Courthouse News) A U.S. soldier was sentenced to 14 years in Manhattan federal court on Friday for trying to help the Islamic State group plan to attack the 9/11 Memorial in New York City and target his fellow servicemen in the Middle East.
Cole James Bridges, a private in the U.S. Army, pleaded guilty last June to foreign terrorism charges, namely attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and attempting to murder U.S. military service members.
Bridges provided sensitive military information to people he believed were IS jihadists and “proudly displayed a troubling and worsening affinity for terrorist organizations including ISIS,” the government said in its sentencing memo.
“Cole Bridges is a traitor. He attempted to murder American soldiers,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Samuel S. Adelsberg said Friday.
