Colorado Woman, 19, 'Helped Islamic State'

A 19-year-old woman from Denver, Colorado, is expected to plead guilty to helping the militant group Islamic State (IS).

Shannon Conley has been charged with trying to assist a terrorist organisation and could face up to five years in jail and a $250,000 fine.

She was arrested as she attempted to board a flight at Denver International Airport, from where she hoped to get to Syria, authorities said.

According to court documents, the trained nurse told FBI agents if she could not fight she aimed to use her skills to help the militant extremists, who are currently waging war in Syria and Iraq.

Details of the agreement she has struck with prosecutors have not been made public.

Before her arrest, court documents reveal the FBI spent eight months repeatedly trying to dissuade Conley from developing links with militants by suggesting she carry out humanitarian work instead.

American Islamic State fighter Douglas McAuthur McCain died in Syria

The documents said agents became aware of her growing interest in extremism in November 2013.

She had alarmed workers at a suburban Denver church by wandering around and taking notes on the layout. 

After they began interviewing her, the Muslim convert told the agents she planned to marry a Tunisian suitor she had met online, who she believed was fighting with IS.

Her parents were asked to intervene and convince her to follow more moderate beliefs.

Her father apparently told her he would not allow her to marry her suitor.

But he then discovered a one-way airline ticket to Turkey with her name on it, which led to her arrest.

The authorities say they have not been able to identify how Conley became interested in jihad, or holy war. 

Islamic State are thought to have recuited hundreds of foreign fighters

After her arrest, CDs containing recordings of the US-born radical cleric Anwar al Awlaki were found among her belongings.

Al Qaeda local leader Awlaki was educated in Colorado and lived in San Diego before being killed in a drone strike in Yemen in September 2011.

The Little Rock recruitment office and Fort Hood shootings in 2009, and the 2010 Times Square attempted bombing are among several terrorist acts linked to Awlaki.

During a visit to the FBI's field office in Denver in August, the organisation's Director James Comey said targeting people who become radicalised via the Internet is a top priority for the agency.

The number of people across the US who have been targeted by Islamic extremists is not known.

Conley's hearing comes just weeks after a Minnesota man recruited to fight for the Islamic State group was killed in Syria.

Five years before, the man's high school friend had died fighting for terror group al-Shabab in Somalia.

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