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Another one who confesses all to his BFF, the undercover FBI agent. Photo of the idiot at the link. [FoxNews] A North Carolina man is charged with providing material support to ISIS after he allegedly made plans to travel to Morocco in December 2024 to join the foreign terrorist organization (FTO), according to federal court documents.
Alexander Justin White, 29, of Durham, allegedly used social media — primarily Facebook and encrypted messaging apps (EMAs) — to "make posts about supporting ISIS and jihad" and communicate with other ISIS supporters about wanting to join the FTO.
In those communications, White, using the pseudonym "Sulaiman al-Amriki," unknowingly had online conversations with an undercover FBI agent, authorities said.
"WHITE openly discussed his desire and intention to travel overseas to join ISIS with various individuals on Facebook and over EMAs," a federal complaint states.
The suspect's "many online conversations with various persons, as well as his communications with the [FBI confidential human source] and the [FBI Online Covert Employee] display a longstanding intent and desire to join ISIS which he prepared for and attempted on December 4, 2024," the complaint says. "He expressly acknowledged awareness of ISIS as a designated FTO and repeatedly expressed concern over being caught by law enforcement and the efforts he was taking to avoid capture."
In September 2024, the undercover agent asked White if he was "ok with killing members of the U.S. Military or other U.S. citizens," to which White allegedly replied, "...If it was a family member I would still fight back with them ... There is no us troops [sic] love for homeland or any of this thing [sic]," according to the complaint.
The suspect allegedly said he had multiple firearms and knew how to use them. A photo included in the report shows White firing a gun at a range in July 2024.
The suspect communicated with the undercover agent online for months about making plans to travel to Morocco to provide support to ISIS. He followed through on those plans late last year, when he booked a flight from Raleigh to Rabat, Morocco, on Dec. 4, authorities said.
Federal agents arrested him that day after he checked into his flight, proceeded through a security checkpoint at Raleigh-Durham International Airport and attempted "to make his way to board the plane," court documents state.
Authorities said they seized nearly $7,000 from White on the day of his arrest and confiscated multiple firearms from his apartment in Durham.
White's arrest comes after exiting FBI Director Christopher Wray told "60 Minutes" in a Sunday interview that ISIS supporters inspired "from afar" are "the most challenging type of terrorist threat we face" when asked about the Jan. 1 terrorist attack in New Orleans that left 15 people dead, including the Texas-born terrorist attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar.
"You're talking about guys like this, who radicalize not in years but in weeks, and whose method of attack is still very deadly but fairly crude," Wray said. "And if you think about that old saying about connecting the dots, there are not a lot of dots out there to connect. And there's very little time in which to connect them."
White, who went by Sulaiman Al-Amriki — which means Sulaiman the American — on social media for part of last year, posted pro-IS content several times on Facebook between June and October 2024, prosecutors said. Some of the content included IS and other Islamic extremist propaganda videos.
During this period, federal prosecutors said White spoke to several social media users who claimed to be from the Middle East and North Africa about his support for IS. He told several users that he wished to travel to Africa to join IS as well, according to court documents. White also lamented missed opportunities to join the militant group in previous trips — such as in a 2018 visit to Egypt — in conversations online, authorities said.
White also conversed frequently with a covert FBI agent over several months, which included several mentions of wanting to join IS and a staged video call that White believed was with an IS commander's spokesperson, prosecutors said.
In addition, the complaint alleges that White was engaged in financial transactions to refugee camps which are well known for acting as a front to funnel money to ISIS members and their supporters. White allegedly made online comments noting that he regretted not having traveled to join ISIS earlier, when it may have been easier through certain overseas routes which were now viewed suspiciously. Believing that his opportunity had come to fruition, White allegedly took steps to make his intended travel appear as nothing more than a vacation when he in fact claimed that he would rather die than return to the United States. After allegedly making various preparations, to include purchasing a personal combat medical kit, on December 4, White made efforts to board a flight bound for Morocco which he intended to use as a jumping point from which to join ISIS members in Africa. 
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