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A jury has found a man guilty of conspiring to steal a passenger jet and commit a 9/11-inspired attack under the direction of Somalian terrorist organization “al Shabaab.” Cholo Abdi Abdullah, 34, was found guilty Monday on six counts including conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and conspiring to murder U.S. nationals. He faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.
He also sent encrypted messages to his al Shabaab handler which included details on post-9/11 hijackings. Al Shabaab, which has sworn allegiance to al Qaeda, in 2019 embarked on a “string of terrorist attacks” in response to the U.S.’ decision to move its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, prosecutors said. These attacks included a Jan. 15, 2019 attack at a hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, which killed 21 people — including a U.S. national who had survived the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
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