(CTV) A 27-year-old man from Mississauga, Ont., who’s serving a prison sentence in the U.S. for his role in a thwarted 2016 terrorist attack in the name of ISIS, has pleaded guilty to stabbing two correctional officers with a weapon he made from a steel desk in his cell.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy’s guilty plea in a news release issued Tuesday in connection with the incident that occurred on Dec. 7, 2020.
Officials say El Bahnasawy was an inmate at United [States] Penitentiary Allenwood in Pennsylvania at the time of the attack, after he was found guilty in 2018 of plotting “the next 9/11” in New York City.
They say El Bahnasawy stabbed one officer in the head and face and another in the hand as she responded to assist. The first officer lost his right eye as a result of the attack.
