A former Army soldier who joined rebels fighting the Syrian government and boasted to the media of his exploits as a Muslim mercenary this month was arrested Wednesday in Virginia and could face life in prison. Eric Harroun, 30, who left the Army in 2003 on full disability pay after a truck accident, was charged with conspiring to use a rocket-propelled grenade while fighting with the al-Nusrah Front, an organization also known as Al Qaeda in Iraq. In an interview earlier with Fox News, Harroun was asked about fighting alongside the terrorist group against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. "The U.S. plays both sides, too," he said.
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