Michael Todd Wolfe, Tweet, May 23, 2014

Date
May 23, 2014
Name of Author
Michael Todd Wolfe
Body

In reference to deciding to travel to Syria:

“It’s not that I don’t want to go, I just need to figure out the best situation.I would rather leave than sit…I’m getting too comfortable sitting here.”U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, “United States of America v. Michael Todd Wolfe, aka ‘Faruq,’” Los Angeles Times, June 27, 2014, http://documents.latimes.com/michael-wolfe-complaint/.

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