Teenager charged in plan to kill Americans for ISIS

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A North Carolina man was arrested Friday after an undercover FBI agent said he planned to "kill a large number of U.S. citizens on behalf of [ISIS]," CBS News reports.

Justin Nolan Sullivan, 19, allegedly planned to get a rifle, make homemade silencers, and carry out "minor assassinations" before a bigger attack. He also claimed he would send ISIS a video, the filed complaint says.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.