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| Arizona: Woman plotted with Muslim convert husband to blow up state prison |
| 2016-10-15 |
| Investigators believe the Florence woman arrested on charges of terrorism and conspiracy to commit terrorism was helping her husband, a radicalized member of the Islamic faith who is serving a life prison for first-degree murder, with a plot to murder a warden. FBI agents arrested Michelle Bastian, 49, Wednesday morning at her workplace, a bakery in Chandler called Urban Oven where she was a bookkeeper. They also served search warrants at her Florence home. According to court paperwork released Thursday, this investigation goes back to May when "a known source" reported to the Arizona Department of Corrections that Thomas Bastian, Michelle's husband, was a believer in Islam and had become radicalized. In September, the same source told the FBI that Thomas "was planning to create an explosive device in order to kill people, to include the prison warden." According to court paperwork, the source's information was corroborated by evidence discovered during a search of Thomas' cell In his cell?! Is there no longer incarceration censorship? including a publication called Inspire, which is put out by al-Qaida, and another called Dabiq, which is distributed by ISIS. "The objective of these publications is to provide detailed instruction on how to commit acts of terrorism and to praise those that have successfully carried out attacks," the arrested officer wrote. "Located within a stack of detailed handwritten notes on how to construct an explosive device were several pages from an issue of Inspire that contained information on how to construct a bomb out of materials found in "your mothers kitchen." The mail made it past prison security because it was labeled as "legal mail.'" |
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