Aurora man convicted of trying to join terrorist group pens letter asking for compassionate release

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Abdella Tounisi of Aurora has been in prison for nearly a decade after trying to join a terrorist group and plotting to blow up a Naperville nightclub

The front of the envelope features 20 American flag stamps, five displaying the US Purple Heart.

Tounisi was just 18 when he was arrested at O'Hare International Airport, bound for the Middle East. He was trying to get to a Syrian terrorist training camp, according to federal agents. The investigators who arrested him in 2013 said he also had another plan: as the I-Team first reported in 2014, Tounisi had told an FBI informant he wanted to blow up a nightclub on Route 59 in Naperville.

In the filed 133 page handwritten brief, the personal letter from a terrorist to the court includes pages of personal medical details, and a dissertation on what he claims not to have done. Tounisi's family, who attended court hearings where he pleaded guilty in 2015, contributed to the jailhouse letter, offering themselves and their Plainfield home if the convicted terror operative, now 28, is allowed an early and compassionate release.

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