WASHINGTON A 17-year-old from Virginia pleaded guilty in court on Thursday to charges of conspiring to help Islamic State militants, the first time the United States has prosecuted a minor as an adult in such a case.Ali Amin, of Manassas, Virginia, used Twitter and his blog to provide instructions on how to use the virtual currency Bitcoin to send funds to the militants, according to court documents.Prosecutors said Amin also helped another Virginia resident, Reza Niknejad, to travel to Syria to join the group that has taken control of areas of Iraq and Syria over the past year in a campaign marked by mass killings and beheadings.The SITE monitoring service, which follows social media postings by Jihadist militants, said Amin had some 4,000 Twitter followers and was in communication with well-known Islamic State fighters and recruiters.SITE said on his site he displayed a picture of the White House topped with an Islamic State black flag and included a note that the site was "dedicated to raising awareness about the upcoming conquest of the Americas."

Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Dana Boente told a press conference that the magnitude of the charges led to prosecution of Amin as an adult."It's something we take very, very seriously, the age of someone...but at the end of the day, it's a matter of public safety," Boente said.Amin faces up to 15 years in prison when he is sentenced on Aug.Amin's lawyer Joseph Flood described him as a "good guy" who was sympathetic to the opposition against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Syria's civil war and got wrapped up in the wrong thing online.bitcoin plus service unavailableWearing a prison uniform on his thin frame, Amin appeared calm and polite as he pleaded guilty to the charges.bitcoin book epubHis mother, also in the courtroom, stayed silent and showed little emotion."Thisbitcoin adoption in japan

case serves as a wake-up call that ISIL's propaganda and recruitment materials are in your communities and being viewed by your youth," Assistant Attorney General John Carlin said in a statement, using an acronym for Islamic State.Northern Virginia has a large Muslim community.Anwar al Awlaki, an American linked to Yemen's al Qaeda branch, preached at a mosque there before leaving the United States shortly after the Sept.valor bitcoin dollarHe died in a drone attack, becoming the first U.S.bitcoin nedir nas?l kullan?l?rcitizen the White House authorized U.S.bitcoin wechselnagencies to kill overseas.Andrew McCabe, assistant director of the FBI's Washington field office, said Amin was a "promising young man" who was active in his local mosque and helpful to his family.litecoin speed

He said the FBI became aware of Amin in November 2014.Amin made travel arrangements for Niknejad and drove him to Dulles International Airport in January, prosecutors said.Niknejad is still at large and prosecutors filed terrorism-related charges against him on Wednesday.(Additional reporting by Emily Stephenson and Doina Chiacu; Editing by David Storey and Cynthia Osterman)Those who complain that the news is depressing have a valid point.bitcoin buy krakenBut it could get exponentially worse.ethereum 200 dollarsChina, Russia, Egypt and Turkey are becoming even more authoritarian.The European Union is “on the verge of collapse,” according to George Soros, one of its strongest supporters.Global warming is worsening.The BRICS countries, which were to be engines of global growth, are all struggling with economic decline and political cul-de-sacs — with the slightly shaky exception of India.

In every case, except those of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s Xi Jinping (though not his extended family), the leader has been accused of corruption.In the United States, both the number of jobs and the GDP are rising, but the bitterness of the political divide and the willingness of parts of the electorate to endorse prejudice as a political principle is itself a crisis, and will be for the next president.The determination of the rich to stay rich and get richer is vividly displayed in the leaks from Panama.But the news can get more depressing.We might get blown up.Earlier this month, President Barack Obama invoked the need for world leaders to cope with “the danger of a terrorist group obtaining and using a nuclear weapon.” In his speech at the Nuclear Security Summit, he had much success to report: earlier commitments to secure or eliminate nuclear material had been followed by most of the world’s states.A “but” was coming, and it was large: both al Qaeda and Islamic State actively seek nuclear weaponry, Obama said, and “there is no doubt that if these madmen ever got their hands on a nuclear bomb or nuclear material they most certainly would use it to kill as many innocent people as possible.” That seems likely to be true: both groups have said so, and a member of Islamic State — which has already used chemical weapons — obtained surveillance footage of a manager at a nuclear facility in Belgium, with a view, officials say, of possibly developing a “dirty” bomb (a conventional explosive device packed with radioactive material).

The head of U.S.National Intelligence, James Clapper, told a Senate committee last month that “the threat of WMD is real.Biological and chemical materials and technologies, almost always dual use, move easily in the globalized economy, as do personnel with the scientific expertise to design and use them.” The veteran commentator on terrorism, Bruce Hoffman, wrote in March that Islamic State is moving towards the “final Definitive Victory State… when the caliphate ultimately triumphs over the rest of the world.” For that, it will need nuclear weapons.Hoffman also believes that the two groups most hungry for global domination — Islamic State and al Qaeda — may merge, in spite of their leaders’ mutual hostility.This possibility, he said, quoting an unnamed senior U.S.official, “would be an absolute and unprecedented disaster for (the United States) and our allies.” More cheer?Russia didn’t attend the nuclear summit.Moscow had said last November that it thought the United States was trying to “take the role of the main and ‘privileged’ player in this sphere” — so it didn’t show.

Russia, Obama said to reporters, had made little, if any, progress on the Security Summit’s goals — because Putin has been pursuing a vision of of “emphasizing military might.” The United States and Russia are estimated to have between them 95 percent of the world’s 15,000 nuclear warheads: the United States 6,970, Russia, 7300.The United States has been slightly reducing its stock; Russia has not.Obama, in a speech in Prague near the beginning of his first presidency seven years ago, called for a nuclear-free world — as Ronald Reagan had done before him.By contrast, Putin has threatened to use nuclear weapons on Islamic State, on Turkey and as a response to Western protests when Russian forces seized Crimea.In the summer of 2014, in a more veiled threat, he told a youth group that “Let me remind you that Russia is one of the world’s biggest nuclear powers.These are not just words — this is the reality.What’s more, we are strengthening our nuclear deterrent capability and developing our armed forces.” The United States, like Russia, modernizes and upgrades its nuclear forces continually, and is likely to sell Patriot interceptor missiles to Poland — much to Russia’s fury.