Published January 13, 2015
A federal judge has agreed to release an Illinois teenager charged with trying to support a foreign terrorist organization.
U.S. Magistrate Daniel Martin ruled Thursday that 18-year-old Abdella Ahmad Tounisi could be released under home confinement. The Aurora man was friends with a man charged last year with trying to bomb a Chicago bar.
The FBI says Tounisi was trying to join a terrorist group in war-torn Syria when he was arrested at an airport. He was nabbed after contacting a sham website that the FBI set up purporting to hook up would-be fighters with terrorists.
The judge warned Tounisi at a hearing to take the allegations seriously.
Tounisi allegedly hoped to join an al-Qaida-affiliated group fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime in a bloody civil war.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/judge-oks-release-of-illinois-man-accused-of-trying-to-join-al-qaida-linked-militants-in-syria