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A Kenyan associated with a terrorist organization trained as a pilot and licensed to carry out a terrorist attack by crashing a plane into a skyscraper in the United States.
The United States government has accused Kenyan citizen Cholo Abdi Abdullah of planning an attack on a high-rise building in the country that would have resembled the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 in which two suicide planes crashed into the towers the World Trade Center, said the US Department of Justice.
The defendant, Abdullah, 30, was arrested in the Philippines in July 2019. He was handed over to the US authorities on December 15.
The man was charged with six counts of terrorism-related crimes “based on his activities as a fighter for the foreign terrorist organization Al-Shabab, including conspiring to hijack a plane to carry out a 9/11-style attack. in United States”.
The investigation claims that Cholo Abdi Abdullah completed a course at a flight school in the Philippines in 2016 and passed the necessary exams to obtain a pilot license.
“Trained as a pilot in the Philippines as part of an upcoming attempt to hijack a commercial aircraft and crash into a building in the United States,” the Justice Department said in a statement. about. United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss.
On September 11, 2001, terrorists sent four hijacked planes to the World Trade Center towers in New York and the Pentagon building. A ship crashed near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, missing its target. Another passenger plane crashed into the west wing of the Department of Defense building in Washington. According to official figures, 2,749 people died in New York, 189 people died in Washington, and 44 people died in Pennsylvania.
As a reminder, the SBU prevented a terrorist attack by the RPD’s Ministry of State Security. In the Donetsk region, a man was arrested who, according to the counterintelligence of the SBU, was planning to carry out a terrorist act at an electrical substation.
The day before we wrote that the Lieutenant Governor of Kabul was killed by a “sticky bomb” explosion in a car.
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