By Keith Coffman
DENVER (Reuters) - A 19-year-old Colorado woman pleaded accusable in federal cloister on Wednesday to conspiring to accommodate actual abutment to Islamic State militants who accept bedeviled ample genitalia of Syria and Iraq.
Shannon Maureen Conley has been in aegis back her arrest in April for allegedly planning to biking across and accompany the Sunni Muslim active group.
Federal prosecutors answerable the burghal Denver boyhood with one calculation of cabal to accommodate actual abutment to Islamic State, a appointed adopted agitator organization.
The group, additionally accepted as ISIS and ISIL, is an al Qaeda adjunct that seeks to actualize a caliphate and has claimed albatross for the beheadings of U.S. journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley.
According to an arrest accreditation affirmation filed in abutment of the bent complaint, Conley, a catechumen to Islam, corresponded online with a declared Islamist fighter from Tunisia.
She told lath that she advised to ally the man and accompany him and added Islamist fighters "to actual the wrongs adjoin the Muslim world."
Conley, who is a certified nurse's aide, abounding a affected run by the U.S. Army Explorers, a adolescence career analysis program, in Texas aftermost year and planned to use that training to action across and additionally to advise the Islamist rebels U.S. aggressive tactics, the affirmation said.
Agents with a federal agitation assignment force interviewed Conley several times to try to dissuade her, but she insisted that she capital to biking across and allowance war adjoin infidels, the arrest affirmation said.
"When asked if she still capital to backpack out the plans, alive they are illegal, Conley said that she does," it said.
She was arrested at Denver International Airport as she able to lath a flight to Germany.
The allegation of conspiring to accommodate actual abutment to a appointed adopted agitator accumulation carries a best amends of bristles years in bastille and a $250,000 fine.
(Reporting by Keith Coffman; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Mohammad Zargham)