FBI: Man plotted suicide bomb attack at Kansas military base

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AP:

NICHOLAS CLAYTON and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH

Apr. 10 2015

 

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A 20-year-old man was arrested Friday while trying to arm what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb near a Kansas military base as part of a plot to support the Islamic State group, federal prosecutors said.

 

John T. Booker Jr. is accused of planning a suicide attack at Fort Riley, about 70 miles west of Topeka. Prosecutors allege he told an FBI informant he wanted to kill Americans and engage in violent jihad on behalf of the terrorist group, and said he believed such an attack was justified because the Quran "says to kill your enemies wherever they are," according to a criminal complaint.

 

"It was alleged that he planned to pull the trigger of the explosives himself so that he would die in the explosion," U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Friday morning. "He told an individual that detonating a suicide bomb was his No. 1 aspiration because he couldn't be captured and all the evidence would be destroyed and he would be guaranteed to hit his target."

 

Grissom said Booker, of Topeka, was arrested without incident near Manhattan, a city bordering Fort Riley. The FBI said there was no breach at the base.

 

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