Joshua Ray Van Haften, Text Message, September 15, 2014

Date
Sep. 15, 2014
Name of Author
Joshua Ray Van Haften
Body

“it’s all good Craig…I figured I would meet people b/c of my sheer knowledge about things & it’d be all good, brothers would help me, give me money, facilitate in getting me to Iraq to help take over Baghdad.” (Text message)“UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JOSHUA VAN HAFTEN,” United States District Court District for the Western District of Wisconsin, October 28, 2014, http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/04/09/van_haften_complaint_signed.pdf.

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