Joshua Ryne Goldberg, who was arrested in Florida, has admitted to providing instructions on how to make a pressure cooker bomb with the intent "to kill and injure persons," according to court doucments.
The 20-year-old's directives included instructions on how to fill the bomb "with nails, metal and other items dipped in rat poison," to be placed at a September 11 memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, the US Department of Justice said.
He could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted, the department said.
Australian Federal Police confirmed they had helped the Federal Bureau of Investigation track down the 20-year-old man.
They alleged that Goldberg, who posed online as "Australi Witness," had "provided information over the Internet in an attempt to facilitate and encourage terrorist acts in Australia" as well.
Goldberg's arrest, which was authorized Wednesday by a US judge, came as Americans prepared for the 14th anniversary of the September 11 attacks that brought down the World Trade Center in New York and destroyed part of the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 people.
Australian authorities, who raised the nation's terror alert to high a year ago, said US investigators took over when the Australians determined the person responsible for the threats was likely in the United States.
Australian Federal Police's acting deputy commissioner for national security Neil Gaughan said the alleged assailant had presumed he was safe.
"This man thought that he could willingly and maliciously distribute disturbing information via the Internet and never have his identity discovered," Gaughan said.
"This operation again highlights how law enforcement can investigate people in the online space and use our long-established partnerships to work with overseas agencies to bring people to account for their actions."
Australia, which is part of the US-led coalition against Islamic State in the Middle East, has been increasingly concerned about the radicalization of its youth.
Some 120 Australians are still fighting with IS in Iraq and Syria, while at least 30 have been killed. Another 160 sympathizers are believed to be supporting jihadists from home.
To combat the problem, Canberra has raised its terror threat alert level to high, introduced new national security laws and conducted several counter-terrorism raids.
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We're still waiting for the anti-Islam comments....keep them coming. We Muslims have forged ahead of all the islamaphobia attacks. Our qiblah is kitab wa Sunnah. May Allah make us pious and righteous Muslims and grant us paradise.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 1030, you have nothing to say about condemning the terrorist? You Muslims are complicit in acts of terrorism if you will not vigorously condemn acts of terrorism. The religion has a long way to go if you wish to dissociate your religion from such acts. It's not just enough to declare that "Islam is a religion of peace" you have to show and act it. Your "body language" is not convincing.
DeleteSharrap. Don't u think its weird that you have to worship God in another man's language. I pray you find Jesus so that you will be truly free and worship God in spirit and truth with any language because it is not only arabic that God understands.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 3:48, in what language is Christians worship God? Is English or Latin ur mother tongue? We may have our differences but we worship the God.
ReplyDeleteOh you don't know!!! Christians worship God in all languages even in tongues. There is no sacred language one must speak or learn to speak to worship God. Dont get it twisted we don't worship the same God. One God wont tell Mr A to kill and Mr B to forgive.
DeleteGet your facts right, we don't worship the same God. You worship a 'son' of god who cried out to his father without help! You also failed to understand the content of the news. Your christian brother assumed the identity of a supposed Muslim with the intention to carry out a terrorist act and you turn around to abuse us and if he had succeeded, Muslims all over the world would have been abused for a terrorist act planned and carried out by your christian-terrorist brother! Shame on you and your likes!!!
DeleteSo what is the religion of this bastard? Why is no one seeing that this people are out to extinguish the light of Islam? Keep going. You will never succeed!
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