A 22-year-old former U.S. Army soldier is staring down decades in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to trying to help ISIS ambush and murder Americans in the Middle East and New York City.
, also known as Cole Gonzales, pleaded guilty in a New York federal court to charges of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and attempting to murder U.S. military service members.
Bridges was arrested in 2021 after the feds tricked him into chatting with an informant he thought was an ally of ISIS—the terrorist organization infamous for carrying out cold-blooded murders, ethnic cleansing, enslavement and rape throughout Syria and Iraq. Those posts prompted the feds to monitor Bridges, a cavalry scout stationed in Fort Stewart, Georgia. The FBI had an informant message Bridges to pose as someone with access to ISIS’ top leaders—fooling Bridges into sharing hoards of incriminating messages and videos that became his own demise.
Killing American soldiers abroad wasn’t Bridges’ only goal. The feds say he also gave the purported ISIS official a list of potential targets in New York City for a terrorist attack—reportedly calling the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan aThe feds became more certain the man messaging them was Bridges after he brazenly sent two videos of himself—one of him donning body armor in front of an ISIS flag, the other of him narrating a propaganda speech in support of an ambush by ISIS on U.S. troops.
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