Kenyan man is convicted of plotting a 9/11-style attack on the US

A Kenyan man has been convicted of plotting a 9/11-style attack on a U.S. building on behalf of the terrorist organization al-Shabab

A federal jury in Manhattan found Cholo Abdi Abdullah guilty on all six counts he faced for conspiring toHe’s due to be sentenced next March and faces a mandatory minimum of 20 years in prison.

In court papers filed ahead of the trial, prosecutors said Abdullah intended to "merely sit passively during the trial, not oppose the prosecution and whatever the outcome, he would accept the outcome because he does not believe that this is a legitimate system.” Federal prosecutors, who rested their case Thursday, said Abdullah plotted the attack for four years, undergoing extensive training in explosives and how to operate in secret and avoid detection.Abdullah was almost finished with his two-year pilot training when he was arrested in 2019 on local charges.

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