National Guard Admits Guilt for Trying to Join ISIS and Attack US

Liputan6.com, Jakarta The United States is faced with a wave of terror threats following numerous successful conduction of bloody operations in many parts of the world orchestrated by the notoriously known extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or Islamic State.

It has also been faced with a shocking revelation made by a member of the US National Guard who pleaded guilty on Monday 14 December 2015 for plotting to attack US soil and its military installation.

He claimed to have been planning to conspire against the U.S in order to show his commitment and support for the Islamic State and its deadly ventures all across the globe.

The man who came clean, Hasan Edmonds was cooperating with his cousin Jonas Edmonds to carry out an attack in the American soil.

“Hasan and Jonas Edmonds conspired to provide material support to ISIL,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, as cited in Business Insider.

“They admitted planning to wage violence on behalf of ISIL in the Middle East and to conduct an attack on our soil,” Carlin continued.

It has been learned that Hasan Edmonds was using the online social media platform Facebook to acquire membership into the terrorist network. The person he communicated with on Facebook who claimed to be an ISIS terrorists in Libya however, is actually an undercover FBI agent.

According to Daily Mail, Hasan Edmonds has been a member of the Illinois National Guard since 2011 and he reportedly willing to lend his cousin the National Guard uniform so that he can carry out massive-scale attacks at the base.

"With the U.S., no matter how many you kill they will keep coming unless the soldiers and the American public no longer have the will to fight," Edmonds wrote, according to the complaint as cited in Chicago Tribune.

"If we can break their spirits we will win. Honestly we would love to do something like the brother in Paris did," Hasan Edmonds continued in his piece in a reference to the January terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine's headquarters in France.