20-yr-old arrested in US over plot to attack 911 memorial
Olivia Blair
THE INDEPENDENT
Aman has been charged over a plot to attack a 911 memorial in the US state of Missouri.
Joshua Ryne Goldberg, 20, from Florida was arrested on charges of distributing information relating to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction. He faces up to 20 years in a federal prison, if convicted. Goldberg was charged after communicating online with an FBI informant in July , when he allegedly shared information on building a bomb with a pressure cooker, nails and rat poison. He reportedly then told he informant to plant the bomb at the upcoming memorial event scheduled to mark he 14th anniversary of the at acks in Kansas City , thought o be planned for this Sunday .
According to Reuters, Goldberg presented himself as a Muslim, living in Austra ia, who supported IS. A criminal complaint said the conversations were between the in ormant and an account with names like `AusWitness' and AusSecret'.
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