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US Teen Allegedly Falls in Love Online, Tries to Join ISIS Fighters in Syria
ABC News ^ | July 2, 2014 | Clayton Sandell and Michael S. James

Posted on 07/02/2014 7:45:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

A 19-year-old suburban Denver woman met an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria fighter online, fell in love, vowed to go to Syria to fight and was arrested by the FBI for as she tried to go overseas, U.S. authorities said.

Shannon Maureen Conley, of Arvada, Colorado, was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, ISIS, after agents arrested her at Denver International Airport on April 8 as she tried to board a flight to Frankfurt, Germany, according to a U.S. criminal complaint and a supporting affidavit. She allegedly had booked connecting flights to Istanbul, Turkey, and then to Adana, Turkey, just a few hours' drive from the Syrian border.

Conley, licensed as a certified nurse's aide in Colorado, according to the affidavit, told investigators that she hoped to meet her online suitor in Syria and reside with him near the Turkish border as his wife and a camp nurse. Her parents told investigators her suitor was a 32-year-old Tunisian man, whose name is redacted in the documents.

"When Conley told the suitor she wants to provide his camp with medical services and training, he told her that was good because they needed more nurses," the affidavit read. "Conley stated that she was aware that her plans were potentially illegal and she could possibly get arrested, and therefore she has no intention to return to the U.S....

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Local News; Military/Veterans; Religion
KEYWORDS: isis; islam; syria; terrorism
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Someone posted a picture on another earlier post about the same woman.


21 posted on 07/02/2014 8:47:25 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The future must not belong to those who slander bacon.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3175330/posts


22 posted on 07/02/2014 8:50:14 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The future must not belong to those who slander bacon.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Off with her head.

That’s what she could expect in middle-east down-the-rabbit-hole countries.


23 posted on 07/02/2014 8:57:55 PM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let her go. One less 0-voter.


24 posted on 07/02/2014 9:16:07 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: traderrob6

No; not crazy, just F#CKEN STUPID.


25 posted on 07/02/2014 9:26:07 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: holyscroller

Feminism is failing American women. Now that they are deemed superior over men, they are complaining that there’s a lack of masculine men.


26 posted on 07/02/2014 9:30:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: smokingfrog

Amen.


27 posted on 07/02/2014 9:45:33 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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To: Trod Upon

She’s a CNA. not even a LPN. How much training can she give them? How to empty bed pans? Self deluded too.


28 posted on 07/02/2014 11:52:02 PM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Women fall in love with prison inmates too. Not smart.


29 posted on 07/03/2014 3:46:45 AM PDT by Mark17 (Rats and RINOs, who are destroying America, may you be screwed by the fickle finger of fate)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Put her in a Military cargo plane and fly her over Isis controlled areas and introduce her to a free HALO drop!


30 posted on 07/05/2014 10:50:45 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Herr Obozo, the Sunni Won-Doer, will not divert $'s from his war on Americans to help our Veterans!)
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To: bjorn14

Most likely she will boost morale by whoring for jihad.


31 posted on 07/05/2014 12:51:22 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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