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Former National Guard member gets 30 years for plot to attack Illinois base
Source: Reuters
U.S. | Tue Sep 20, 2016 | 7:20pm EDT
Former National Guard member gets 30 years for plot to attack Illinois base
By Timothy Mclaughlin | CHICAGO
A former member of the Illinois National Guard was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday for planning with his cousin to attack a military installation outside Chicago as part of a conspiracy to support the Islamic State militant group.
Hasan Edmonds, 24, and his cousin, Jonas Edmonds, 31, pleaded guilty last year to planning to carry out an armed attack on the military facility where Hasan Edmonds had been training in Joliet, 34 miles (55km) southwest of downtown Chicago.
Jonas Edmonds was sentenced to 21 years in prison earlier on Tuesday.
"They were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for planning to wage violence on behalf of ISIL in the Middle East and to conduct an attack on our soil," U.S. Assistant Attorney General John Carlin said in a statement on Tuesday, referring to Islamic State by an acronym.
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Former National Guard member gets 30 years for plot to attack Illinois base
By Timothy Mclaughlin | CHICAGO
A former member of the Illinois National Guard was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday for planning with his cousin to attack a military installation outside Chicago as part of a conspiracy to support the Islamic State militant group.
Hasan Edmonds, 24, and his cousin, Jonas Edmonds, 31, pleaded guilty last year to planning to carry out an armed attack on the military facility where Hasan Edmonds had been training in Joliet, 34 miles (55km) southwest of downtown Chicago.
Jonas Edmonds was sentenced to 21 years in prison earlier on Tuesday.
"They were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for planning to wage violence on behalf of ISIL in the Middle East and to conduct an attack on our soil," U.S. Assistant Attorney General John Carlin said in a statement on Tuesday, referring to Islamic State by an acronym.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-justice-islamicstate-idUSKCN11Q2ZH
