Newly unsealed court documents outline two teenagers’ plan to blow up a Chicago area mosque.
Prosecutors say Xavier Pelkey, of Waterville, Maine, recruited two teens — one is from Chicago. Their plan was to attack a Shia mosque, and possibly a synagogue in the name of ISIS.
This comes a month after the trio was arrested when FBI investigators found handmade explosives at Pelkey's apartment.The two unidentified teens and Pelkey communicated through Instagram and other chat platforms with plans to meet in Chicago during spring break. The teen from Chicago told the FBI the plan was to enter a Shia mosque and separate the adults from the children, and then murder the adults.
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