Conversation with undercover FBI agent:

“If we can break their spirits we will win. Whenever we attack them instead of killing them all try to take a few as prisioners for either ransom or to show the world the hours the kufar army will suffer at the hands of the lions of Allah. [sic]”“United States of America v. Hasan Edmonds and Jonas M. Edmonds,” U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division, March 25, 2015, http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/26/edmonds_complaint_0.pdf.