Uncharged High Treason: U.S. Soldier Worked With Islamic State to Kill Fellow Soldiers

U.S. Army Private First-Class Cole James Bridges stealthily joined the U.S. military  already fully dedicated to the cause of establishing a global Islamic caliphate under draconian Sharia Law. Among his crimes, he worked with ISIS on a plan to kill Special Forces personnel by luring them into a bomb-laced house inside a compound. He came up with the idea.not only planning the attack but advising on weapons placement and drawing out positions using a satellite image of the compound. Then he planned to exploit the dead Americans for propaganda by using himself in his U.S. Army combat kit.

But Jan 6th protestors are charged with treason.

Muslim privilege or …. we’ll cut your head off, islamophobes.

U.S. Soldier Pleads Guilty To Terrorism, But The Full Story Is Far More Treasonous

By: Todd Bensman, The Federalist, July 11, 2023

In this story of uncharged high treason, a U.S. Army soldier worked with ISIS jihadists to kill fellow soldiers.

On June 14, U.S. Army Private First-Class Cole James Bridges of Ohio pleaded guilty to terrorism and attempted murder charges of helping the terrorist group ISIS kill his comrades on the battlefields in Iraq and Syria during 2020 and 2021.

This plea triggered the usual perfunctory dance between uninspired government press release writers and disinterested journalists keener on a white supremacy terrorism case. But before yet another Islamic terrorism prosecution passes with no public contemplation, the story of Bridges as detailed in the court files demands a pause for telling because the death penalty-deserving high treason for which this turncoat was not charged blew far past tolerance norms.

May this treasonous behavior in the service of the global jihad and against his country and brothers-in-arms at least be considered at his sentencing hearing scheduled for Nov. 2.
High Treason Not Charged

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Plenty of civilian Americans have embraced the most violent of Islamic ideologies over the past two decades, physically joining ISIS or al-Qaeda on distant battlefields to kill American soldiers. Many were prosecuted for providing material support to designated terrorist groups.

But few American jihadists stealthily joined the U.S. military like Bridges did in 2019 as already fully dedicated to the cause of establishing a global Islamic caliphate under draconian Sharia Law — the prime goal of all groups like ISIS. What puts this case over the top is what Bridges did with his fresh training and access after becoming a cavalry scout for the 3rd Infantry Division while stationed in Fort Stewart, Georgia, and briefly in Germany, an ISIS flag always secreted away in his duffel.

The investigating FBI agent’s complaint affidavit summarizes much of this, based on FBI-monitored ISIS chatroom conversations from August 2020 through January 2021 between Bridges and terrorists in Syria, some of whom, thankfully, turned out to be undercover FBI agents and informants.

“Bridges has, while deployed with his U.S. Army unit overseas [Germany] and continuing after returning with his unit to the United States, expressed his allegiance to ISIS and its radical jihadist ideology; provided advice regarding choosing targets in New York City for a potential ISIS attack; stated that if his Army unit was involved in combat with ISIS fighters, he would betray his unit and join the ISIS fighters; and provided support, tactical training materials, and advice for use by ISIS against American forces.”

He also drew battle diagrams and sent U.S. training video clips to show ISIS how to tactically blunt U.S. attacks and use them against American forces.

Bridges lamented that he could only help from afar but hoped to one day “physically teach brothers of the ummah [the Muslim world] that want to fight.” That day might come, he posited, if U.S. law enforcement tried to arrest him. He’d flee the country to a battleground. But if he could not escape, he’d happily martyr himself in an attack on arresting officers.

These offenses to uniform, oath, and country went on to a climactic and treacherous plot. Bridges drew diagrams for his ISIS fighter friends to rig a real Syrian compound with explosives so that they could lure U.S. Special Forces soldiers in to fight and then blow them all up. Bridges was so excited about the plan he was orchestrating that he appeared in full battle rattle, wearing a tactical mask in front of his secret ISIS flag to narrate with voice-changing software a post-attack propaganda video he’d make of the dead Special Forces soldiers.

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