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motivated www . AmericanSecurityToday to single-issue . com and

thirteen years

September her senior 2022 - . Edition He pur- 63

hate-based precepts to an- ti-government perspectives .
portedly promised to marry her and help her engage in jihad in

Syria .

However , the focus

of this arti- cle is females contributing to

Shannon joined the US

Army Explorers

, a career program pro- violent jihadist causes . vided under the umbrella of the

Women and Jihadist Ter- rorism

Boy Scouts of America . The program provides training

in armed combat ,

military tac-

Those seeking a relationship tics , and firearms .

and ultimately marriage can

be

enticed by a terrorist suit- or . This happened with

Shan- non Conley

, a Colorado teen-

Shannon planned to exploit these techniques and

wage ji- had abroad

. In case she could

ager who was radicalized by not fight , she promised to help

jihadist

propaganda

and the jihadi fighters

while serv-

longed to travel to join the

Is-

ing as a nurse .

lamic State .

Concurrently ,

while

In 2014 , Shannon was caught online , boarding a flight from Denver

Shannon interacted with a Syr-

to Turkey , with eventual plans

ia-based

Tunisian

operative to join the group in Syria

. The

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