Former Navy sailor admits plotting terror attack against Naval Station Great Lakes
A U.S. sailor plotted to attack Naval Station Great Lakes with bombs and guns and also targeted tourist locations in Chicago including the Magnificent Mile and the famous Bean statue in Millennium Park.
A U.S. sailor plotted to attack Naval Station Great Lakes with bombs and guns and also targeted tourist locations in Chicago including the Magnificent Mile and the famous Bean statue in Millennium Park.
Xuanyu Harry Pang, who has since left the Navy, admitted to his involvement in the terror attack scheme and pleaded guilty to federal charges in Chicago on Thursday.
Pang, a Chinese native who became an American citizen in 1998, was charged two and a half years ago but the case was just unsealed on Thursday in Chicago. .
The attack plot targeting Great Lakes, the Navy’s main boot camp training facility, was from the inside. The schemed aimed at avenging the killing of a top Iranian military figure-taken out during President Donald Trump’s first term.
Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian general who was killed during an American drone strike in 2020, had inspired radical Islamists worldwide.
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