NEW YORK — Federal authorities have arrested a New York college student who plotted to detonate a pressure cooker bomb on behalf of the Islamic State terror group, according to published reports.
Munther Omar Saleh, 20, a student at the Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, told a government informant that he was going to "try to do an op" in New York, the Daily News reports court papers saying. Vaughn is a private college specializing in aviation and engineering near LaGuardia Airport in Queens.
Via Twitter, Saleh openly supported Islamic State activities, including the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris in January and the beheading of Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, CBS New York reports court papers saying.
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