A 35-year-old woman has been charged in connection with a plot to use an explosive device to attack the New York State Capitol, officials said Thursday. Jessica Bowie was arrested Wednesday and has been charged with one count of attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, ISIS, said John Sarcone, the First Assistant US Attorney for the Northern District of New York. Watch 24/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https://bit.ly/4eIvlTr #terrorism #Newyork #News
Hadi Matar, the man who attacked author Salman Rushdie in 2022, has been found guilty of attempting to carry out a fatwa and providing material support to Hezbollah.
Hadi Matar, the radical Islamic terrorist charged with stabbing Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie multiple times, has been found guilty of attempting to carry out a fatwa and providing support to terrorists in federal court . PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: - DETAIL: Back in August 2022, then-24-year-old Hadi Matar, a U.S.-born Muslim of Lebanese descent, stabbed Salman Rushdie multiple times while he was giving a public lecture in Chautauqua, western New York. The attack left Rushdie blind in one eye. On Wednesday, the now-28-year-old Matar was found guilty in federal court of attempting to carry out a fatwa (an Islamic legal ruling) issued by the Iranian government. He was found guilty of three charges: attempting to provide material…Open
Pete Musico and Paul Bellar were previously convicted of providing material support for an act of terrorism in the plot, alongside Joseph Morrison, whose conviction was overturned by a different appeals panel last month.
The department claimed the 12 individuals have been accused of serious offenses, including providing material support to a terrorist group, committing war crimes and sexually abusing a minor, which are grounds for denaturalization.
Jurors convict the man on a charge of conspiring to provide material support to an ISIS group, but it’s a rare setback in a high-profile terrorism case.
The defendant was charged with a single count of providing and conspiring to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization — ISIS-K — which resulted in death.
