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Man Charged with Marking Targets in D.C. for Islamic State


(AP) Matthew Barakat - Haris Qamar, 25, from a northern Virginia suburb of Washington, was charged last week with attempting to assist the Islamic State by photographing targets in the Washington, D.C., area for a video encouraging lone-wolf terrorist attacks in the nation's capital. After Qamar came to authorities' attention through Twitter posts supporting terrorist attacks, the FBI set up a sting operation. Qamar tried to join the Islamic State in 2014 but was thwarted because his father had possession of Qamar's passport and threatened to turn his son in to authorities if he persisted.
2016-07-11 00:00:00
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