An 18-year-old from suburban Denver who allegedly planned to go to Iraq to fight for the Islamic State group was arrested last week as he tried to board a flight to Turkey.
An 18-year-old from suburban Denver who allegedly planned to go to Iraq to fight for the Islamic State group was arrested last week as he tried to board a flight to Turkey.
Oh; so he was not only disabled but…
They entrapped him.
Asking in case I’m wrong: isn’t it only entrapment if the defendant wouldn’t have pursued the illegal action without the law enforcement playing a part? We can’t be sure from the details given, but by my understanding this would not qualify for entrapment if the accused sought out a contact with the Islamic State, but was funneled to the FBI agent instead, and they already expressed intent to join.
Correct, dude fell for a honeypot, he wasn’t coerced into it. No different than a police sting pretending to be a hooker and arresting a John
Where does it say he is disabled? I have adhd and bipolar, I’m not disabled, and it never occurred to me to join ISIS. My husband is autistic, and he never wanted to join a terrorist organization.
Edit: He said he’d build a fertilizer bomb in the US if he couldn’t go to the Middle East. Not defensible, IMO.