By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News
(CHICAGO) An Aurora man facing prison time or plotting to join al-Qaida wants to fire his legal team and represent himself in his upcoming sentencing hearing.
In a one-page letter, Abdella Ahmad Tounisi tells a U.S. district judge that there was a “breakdown of trust, conflict of interest and breakdown of communication” with is lawyers. Tounisi has been in federal custody since he was arrested in April 2013 and is scheduled to be sentenced next month.
He pleaded guilty more than a year and a half ago to one count of attempting to provide material support to Jabhat al-Nusra, a designated terrorist group. He had just turned 18 when he was arrested at O’Hare trying to board a flight to Turkey.
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