Ridiculous.

Via Chicago Tribune:

A federal judge today ordered that an Aurora teen be released to home confinement while he awaits trial on charges he sought to join a terror group linked to al-Qaida in Syria.

However, the suspect remained in custody after federal prosecutors quickly announced they would appeal the rare decision to release a terror suspect.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel Martin ordered Abdella Ahmad Tounisi released to home confinement on electronic monitors but then stayed the order for 24 hours to give prosecutors time to decide if they wanted to appeal his decision to a higher-level judge.

But prosecutors moved swiftly to appeal the decision and announced that U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang would take up the bond issue at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow.

Tounisi, 18, was arrested at O’Hare International Airport last month on charges he agreed to travel to war-torn Syria to fight with the Jabhat al-Nusrah terror group in communications on a phony website that was secretly set up by the FBI.

Prosecutors allege Tounisi has links to a second terrorism Chicago-area suspect, Adel Daoud, who was arrested last September after he tried to set off what he thought was a bomb outside a downtown bar. Tounisi was a close friend of Daoud’s and plotted with him in the bomb attack, prosecutors allege, but backed out when he suspected law enforcement was onto them.

About 30 supporters, members of Tounisi’s family and mosque, showed up in federal court today pledging their help.

In addition to ordering home confinement, Martin named Tounisi’s father to act as custodian to ensure his son followed the court’s orders. But that has all been put on hold as prosecutors ask another judge to review the issue.