FBI agent testifies about undercover role in terror probe
A Los Angeles undercover FBI agent posing as an Islamic State sympathizer testified Wednesday at a terrorism trial that a U.S. Air Force veteran revealed that he expected to be arrested when he returned to the U.S. from a trip to the Middle East.
The agent, identified only by the alias Talib Nassib, testified at the Brooklyn Federal Court trial of Tairod Pugh. It is one of the first of dozens of cases brought against suspected U.S.-based Islamic State sympathizers to reach trial.
Pugh, 48, has pleaded not guilty to charges that he went to Turkey last year, hoping to make his way to Syria to join the Islamic State.