An American woman who admitted to participating in the online recruitment of Islamic State fighters is seeking leniency in her terrorism case over the objections of prosecutors who say she double-crossed them
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Caesar, 24,"was a committed recruiter and self-described 'assistant' to the terrorist group, connecting ISIS supporters in the United States to ISIS facilitators and operatives abroad," the government wrote in court papers. "Yes, she messed up," Von Dornum said about her client's violation of her cooperation agreement."We just need to give her a lot more help this time."
Story continuesShe soon began advocating violent jihad Facebook posts, prosecutors said, including one written in Arabic from February 2016 that read,"Let's go . . . let's go like the soldiers."
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