Background image of Facebook page of "Eric Omar Harroun," posted March 2, 2013 [1]
On March 11, 2013, Foxnews.com revealed that the American fighter who appeared in YouTube videos alongside Syrian rebels is Eric Harroun, a former U.S. soldier.
On March 29, 2013, CNN reported that the FBI had arrested Eric Harroun in Virginia, at a hotel near Dulles International Airport. Harroun was charged with illegally using a weapon on behalf of Jabhat Al-Nusra (JN), a U.S. designated terrorist group in Syria; according to the U.S. designation, JN is an alias of the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) group.
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