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    US jury convicts terrorist of plotting 9/11-style attack

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    A jury on Monday convicted Cholo Abdi Abdullah, 34, after he allegedly attempted to carry out a terrorist attack inspired by the 2001 bombing. September 11 attacks committed by Al Qaeda, the Department of Justice confirmed. He planned the attack on behalf of and under the direction of the Somalia-based terrorist group Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mijahideen, more often known as ‘Al Shabaab’.

    Abdullah was found guilty of six counts, namely conspiracy to provide and provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and conspiracy to murder U.S. citizens, commit aircraft piracy, destroy aircraft, and commit acts of transnational terrorism.

    The recently convicted Abdullah, according to the indictment, had spent months in Somalia training with AK-47 assault rifles and explosives. The organization had planned to hijack a commercial flight and crash it into a building in the United States.

    In preparation for the attack, Abdullah obtained a pilot’s license from a flight school in the Philippines and investigated potential targets, searching the tallest buildings in American cities and researching how to open a cockpit door from the outside. He also conducted important research and exchanged encrypted messages about the 9/11 attacks.

    People visit the 9/11 Memorial, in New York City, U.S., March 21, 2023. (Credit: REUTERS/AMANDA PEROBELLI)

    Abdullah will appear in court for sentencing on March 10, 2025.

    “The jury concluded that Cholo Abdi Abdullah, an agent of the terrorist organization al Shabaab, conspired to murder Americans in a terrorist attack reminiscent of the 9/11 attack on our country,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “Today’s sentencing ensures that Abdullah will spend decades in prison for his crimes. The Department of Justice will never stop working to identify, investigate and prosecute those who would use egregious acts of violence to harm the American people. It doesn’t matter where the terrorists hide. “They will not evade the long arm of the law.”

    “Today, the jury returned a unanimous verdict holding Cholo Abdi Abdullah responsible for attempting to replicate one of the most heinous acts of terrorism in history,” said U.S. Attorney Damian Williams for the Southern District of New York. “Abdullah trained with Al Shabaab for months in Somalia to become a deadly terrorist and then spent months in flight school preparing to hijack a commercial airliner and crash it into a building in the United States. “Abdullah relentlessly pursued his objectives and nearly earned a commercial pilot’s license while conducting extensive attack planning, such as how to smash an airplane cockpit door,” Garland added.

    “I commend the tireless work of our federal law enforcement partners and this office’s career national security prosecutors. This effort has been carried forward by generations of agents and prosecutors who never relented in their efforts to bring Abdullah to justice. to justice and keep this nation safe. Thanks to his work and today’s verdict, Abdullah will now serve a long sentence in federal prison.”

    Why has Al Shabaab set its sights on the United States?

    In 2019, following President Donald Trump’s decision to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Al-Qaeda renewed attacks against the United States, its citizens and its global interests within the framework of “Operation Jerusalem Will Never Be Judaized.” . Al Shabaab has pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda, absorbing the terrorist group’s mission objectives.

    Osama Bin Laden, founder of Al-Qaeda and mastermind of the original attacks, had also set the terrorist group’s siege in the United States for reasons related to Israel. according to a letter published by Bin Laden a year after the attacks in the guardian. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks and thousands were injured.

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    Al-Qaeda has become more active in recent years, establishing new training bases and Islamic schools in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.



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