{"id":45704,"date":"2021-03-29T10:20:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T13:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=45704"},"modified":"2021-03-31T10:18:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T13:18:42","slug":"pfc-cole-bridges-pleads-not-guilty-to-terrorism-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/29\/pfc-cole-bridges-pleads-not-guilty-to-terrorism-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"PFC Cole Bridges Pleads Not Guilty to Terrorism Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-45764 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cole-1-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cole-1-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cole-1.jpg 552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>US Army Private First Class Cole Bridges <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/us-soldier-pleads-not-guilty-to-plotting-attacks-on-nyc-landmarks-1.665876\">pled not guilty<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/pr\/us-army-soldier-arrested-attempting-assist-isis-conduct-deadly-ambush-us-troops\">planning to blow up landmarks<\/a> in New York city as part of an Islamic State terror attack:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cole Bridges faces a maximum of 40 years in prison for attempting to provide material support to Islamic State and attempted murder of U.S. military service members&#8230;The radicalized soldier eventually began advising the fake Islamic State sympathizer on how to thwart U.S. military attacks in the Middle East and \u201cprovided advice\u201d on potential targets in New York City, including the 9\/11 Memorial, according to a complaint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nearly <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2018\/09\/04\/islamic-us-soldier-kang-jailed-for-supporting-isis\/\">two dozen attacks<\/a> have been <!--more-->plotted against US troops \u2013 many by US troops \u2013 all of which were motivated by the attackers\u2019 Islamic faith.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, some people like Mikey Weinstein think <em>Christians<\/em> in the US military are the \u201cnational security threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; US Army Private First Class Cole Bridges pled not guilty to planning to blow up landmarks in New York city as part of an Islamic State terror attack: Cole Bridges faces a maximum of 40 years in prison for attempting to provide material support to Islamic State and attempted murder of U.S. military service members&#8230;The radicalized soldier eventually began [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6879,44,85,2,5218,7,10,3648],"class_list":["post-45704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-cole-bridges","tag-islam","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religion","tag-terrorist-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45704"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45766,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45704\/revisions\/45766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}