Afghan man living in Oklahoma admits to plotting Election Day ISIS terror attack

An Afghan teen accused of taking portion successful an Oklahoma plot to transportation retired an Election Day onslaught has pleaded guilty, national prosecutors said Thursday.

Abdullah Haji Zada, 18, a national of Afghanistan who was surviving successful Moore, Oklahoma, pleaded blameworthy to knowingly receiving and colluding to person a firearm and ammunition to beryllium utilized successful a violent attack, tribunal records show.

Zada, who was 17 astatine nan clip of his arrest, is awaiting sentencing and faces up to 15 years successful situation and a $250,000 fine.

Zada besides agreed to beryllium removed from nan United States aft he is released from prison, tribunal records show.

Telephone and email messages near connected Thursday pinch Zada’s attorney, Jeff Byers, were not instantly returned.

Zada’s co-defendant, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, who antecedently worked arsenic a information defender for an American subject installation successful Afghanistan, is presently awaiting proceedings for colluding and attempting to supply worldly support to nan Islamic State group.

Prosecutors allege Zada and Tawhedi took steps to get AK-47 rifles and ammunition and planned to transportation retired an onslaught targeting ample crowds connected Election Day past year.