A Washington state man has been arrested for alleged efforts to join the Islamic State group, federal prosecutors say.
the Islamic State groupElvin Hunter Bgorn Williams, 20, of Seattle, was taken into custody at the departure gate of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport last Friday as he attempted to board a flight to Cairo, federal prosecutors said.
Williams, whom federal prosecutors described as"self-radicalized," first came to the FBI's attention when he was 16. Administrators at his high school contacted the FBI in 2017 to report that Williams was telling others he wanted to join ISIS and that the deadly terrorist attack on an Ariana Grande concern in England was justified because the singer dressed provocatively, according to the complaint.
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