Morocco’s General Directorare of Territorial Surveillance (DGS) has made a valuable contribution to the American security agencies to arrest a radicalized US soldier who was planning to carry out a bloody terror attack, Moroccan News Agency MAP qouted from US press.
Thanks to this cooperation, U.S. Army private Cole Bridges was arrested last week while he was planning an attack on the National September 11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan. “Bridges provided detailed diagrams and even training manuals to help ISIS fighters better kill American forces,” according to US daily newspaper Newstalk Florida.
Bridges joined the U.S. Army in 2019 the same year that prosecutors say he began immersed in the propaganda of terrorist groups and a pledged supporter of jihadi terrorists. The young cavalry scout with the 3rd Infantry Division based at Fort Stewart, Georgia soon sought went public with his radical views. He began promoting these views online through social media and interacting on extremist forums, according to the same source.
DGST, headed by Abdellatif Hammouchi, “has worked closely with the United States on counter-terrorism efforts in the past and made the United States government aware of Bridges online activities,” the source said, adding that from September until November 2020, Bridges was located at a U.S. military base in Germany. Thanks to information provided by the DGST, Bridges began speaking online to someone he thought was in direct contact with ISIS fighters but, was, in fact, an online covert employee of the FBI.
