article_snippet: Jones, said that Bilardi "blew away the profile of what most people think of when most people think of people who are going to support the Islamic State.
article_snippet: Jones said Bilardi's case was also notable in that Jones did not appear to have been "groomed" by terror recruiters -- indeed, Jones wrote of initially struggling to make contacts among Islamic extremists -- and had radicalized Jones through Jones own readings.
article_snippet: But Jones said Jones Bilardi's ultimate fate in a suicide mission was typical for foreign fighters in Jones position.
article_snippet: Jones believed that in knowingly signing up for his Bilardi's ultimate fate in a suicide mission, on two separate occasions, his Bilardi had been seeking the kind of recognition and achievement that, as a vulnerable teen, Jones had been denied at home. "
article_snippet: Jones wanted that 'religious prize'," Jones said.