Virginia 17-year-old pleads guilty to helping to Islamic State

[Yahoo! News]

A Virginia 17-year-old pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to charges of conspiring to help Islamic State militants, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Ali Amin, of Manassas, Virginia, used social media to provide instructions on how to use the virtual currency Bitcoin to send funds to militants, and he helped another Virginia resident travel to Syria to join the group, the department said. "Around the nation, we are seeing ISIL use social media to reach out from the other side of the world," Assistant Attorney General John Carlin said in a statement, using an acronym for Islamic State.

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