From
Reuters:
A man accused of assisting in a foiled bomb plot at a Kansas military base as part of what prosecutors said was an attempt to demonstrate support of the Islamic State militant group pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiracy.
Alexander Blair, 30, of Topeka, Kansas, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy for helping his friend, John Booker Jr., store equipment to make a bomb to kill American service members, prosecutors said in a statement.
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Booker, 21, made statements on Facebook and to FBI agents that he wanted to join Islamic State and kill people and was willing to die in the process, the documents said. He was arrested on April 10 in a sting operation in which he went to Fort Riley with two undercover FBI agents to detonate what he did not know was an inert bomb, prosecutors have said.
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According to court documents, Blair and Booker shared extremist views in support of Islamic State and against the U.S. military.
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I have known many, many Muslims throughout my life. Most are decent folks. But one thing I have noted, in the main, is that the more "religious" they are, the more unstable and prone to unacceptable conduct they are. Not a universal trait, but far too common to be coincidental.
