MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

It’s okay for the government to double its aid to the Syrian rebels, but if you try to help some of them yourself you’ll get charged with terrorism-related charges …

Fox News – “A suburban Chicago teenager has been arrested on terrorism-related charges and accused of seeking to join an Al Qaeda-affiliated group in war-torn Syria, the FBI announced Saturday.

Abdella Ahmad Tounisi was arrested Friday night as he attempted to board a flight from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport to Turkey, which borders Syria, the FBI said. He hoped to join Jabhat al-Nusrah, a group fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime in a bloody civil war.

There are no links between Tounisi and the Boston Marathon bombings earlier in the week, the head of the FBI office in Chicago, Cory B. Nelson, said in a statement announcing the arrest.

Tounisi, a U.S. citizen, was snared in an Internet sting after contacting a sham website set up by the FBI that purported to hook up would-be fighters with terrorists, the federal complaint says.

The 18-year-old Aurora man was surprisingly frank about his lack of fighting experience.

‘Concerning my fighting skills, to be honest, I do not have any,’ he allegedly wrote in one email written this year, according to the complaint. ‘I’m very small … physically but I pray to Allah that he makes me successful.’

At the top of the website were the words, ‘A Call for Jihad in Syria,’ and the site invited interested parties to ‘come and join your lion brothers … who are fighting under the true banner of Islam.’ Elsewhere, the site advised users on how to conceal their Internet tracks, the complaint says.” Read more.

US Pledges To Double Syrian aid to $250M, Rebels Want More – “The United States said Sunday that it will double its non-lethal assistance to Syria’s opposition as the rebels’ top supporters vowed to enhance and expand their backing of the two-year battle to oust President Bashar Assad’s regime. Yet the pledge fell far short of what the opposition had made clear it wanted: weapons and direct military intervention …” Read more.