ISIS-Inspired John Thomas Booker Jr. Charged in Kansas Military Bomb Plot

By: American Decency Staff

A 20-year-old Kansas man was arrested Friday morning after federal authorities say he plotted to detonate a car bomb at the Fort Riley military base in the name of ISIS.

But John T. Booker Jr., also known as Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, was using bomb material which he thought was explosive but was in fact inert, and provided by what turned out to be undercover FBI operatives, according to federal prosecutors.

Booker was charged with one count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction (explosives), one count of attempting to damage property by means of an explosive and one count of attempting to provide material support to ISIS, the Justice Department said in a news release.

Booker, of Topeka, was arrested at 9 a.m. local time without incident near Manhattan, Kansas, just east of Fort Riley. Prosecutors claim he was making final preparations for setting off a bomb as part of a suicide mission against U.S. military personnel, according to a criminal complaint.

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