As part of the plan, Xavier Pelkey would rendezvous with underage accomplices from Chicago and Canada to stage an armed invasion of mosques.
A Maine teenager has signed a plea agreement admitting he had weapons and Isis inspired plans to attack Chicago area Shia mosques last March.
Pelkey now admits he had amassed and planned to use homemade explosives. Bombs and ISIS paraphernalia were part of a plot, according to Pelkey, targeting Shia Muslims in Chicago whom he and his unnamed terror accomplices considered non-believers in their more radical Sunni Islam world. Former Chicago federal prosecutor Gil Soffer is ABC7's legal analyst. He explained how ISIS is able to recruit teenagers from all corners of the US.
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