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Kansas man pleads guilty to aiding foiled ISIS bomb plot

2016-05-24

[Ynet] A man accused of aiding a foiled plot to bomb a Kansas military post on behalf of ISIS pleaded guilty to conspiracy on Monday, admitting that he loaned a friend money to store the explosives that he intended to use in the attack.

Alexander E. Blair, 29, could get up to five years in prison when he's sentenced Aug. 22. He will remain free until then.

According to prosecutors, Blair lent John T. Booker

...aka Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, who got mad when the Army would not accept him on the grounds that he was entirely too interested in jihad...

$100 to pay for storage of a bomb that Booker planned to detonate in April 2015 outside of the Fort Riley military post, which is about 60 miles west of Topeka. Booker planned the ISIS-inspired attack with two contacts who were actually confidential FBI informants, and when he tried arming the bomb, which was fake, FBI agents incarcerated
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him.