Feds: National Guard soldier, cousin plotted to attack Illinois military facility, fight for ISIS

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Source: Chicago Tribune

Two Aurora cousins -- one an Illinois National Guardsman -- plotted to have one carry out a terrorist attack at a northern Illinois military facility while the other planned to fly overseas to fight with Islamic State, federal authorities alleged Thursday.

Hasan Edmonds, 22, an Army National Guard specialist, was arrested Wednesday night at Midway Airport as he attempted to fly to Cairo to wage violence on behalf of Islamic State, according to authorities.

Edmonds’ cousin, Jonas Edmonds, 29, planned to carry out an act of terrorism on U.S. soil after his cousin departed the country, authorities said.

Both cousins met with an undercover FBI employee and presented a plan to carry out an armed attack against an undisclosed U.S. military facility in northern Illinois where Hasan Edmonds had been training, the criminal complaint alleged.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/news/ct-national-guard-terrorism-arrest-met-20150326-story.html

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1. What the hell is wrong with these people? Have fun in prison, assholes!!

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2. Such crimes should get the death penalty n/t

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3. ...

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-army-national-guard-soldier-and-his-cousin-arrested-conspiring-support-terrorism-isil