US EditionFormer Navy sailor pleads guilty in plot to attack Naval Station Great Lakes
- A former US Navy sailor, Xuanyu Harry Pang, pleaded guilty to a charge related to a 2022 plot to attack Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois, according to a plea agreement unsealed Thursday.
- Pang's plan allegedly involved Iranian actors, intending to avenge the death of Qasem Soleimani, who was killed by a US airstrike in 2020.
- The Department of Justice stated that Pang faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for conspiring to injure national defense material.
- Pang communicated with an individual in Colombia about helping with the plot and exchanged messages regarding a $1 million payment for their assistance.
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‘You guys are looking for max damage, right?’: Ex-sailor pleads in terrorist plot to attack Naval Station Great Lakes
A former sailor at the Naval Station Great Lakes has pleaded guilty to a 2022 terrorist plot to attack the base in Chicago's northern suburbs on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
‘You guys are looking for max damage, right?’: Ex-sailor pleads guilty to terrorist plot to attack Naval Station Great Lakes
A then-U.S. Navy sailor living at Naval Station Great Lakes in Chicago’s north suburbs met in October 2022 with someone he thought was an Iranian terrorist to discuss locations for an attack that would cause the maximum amount of carnage, federal investigators say. During their conversation at the Lake Bluff train station, the sailor, Xuanyu Harry Pang, allegedly referenced surveillance photos he’d taken of Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago on…
Former US Navy Member Pleads Guilty to Plotting Iranian Terror Attack Against America
A former Navy sailor has pleaded guilty to charges he sought to attack Great Lakes Naval Station in North Chicago, Illinois, as part of an Iranian terror attack. Xuanyu Harry […] The post Former US Navy Member Pleads Guilty to Plotting Iranian Terror Attack Against America appeared first on The Western Journal.
Ex-US Navy sailor pleads guilty to plotting attack for Iran
A former US Navy sailor has pleaded guilty to plotting an attack on a naval base on behalf of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Justice Department said. Xuanyu Harry Pang, 38, entered the guilty plea in early November and it was unsealed in a federal district court in Chicago on Thursday, the department said in a statement. According to court documents, Pang communicated with an individual in Colombia in 2021 about assisting with an attack "…
Former Navy sailor pleads guilty in plot to attack Illinois naval station, allegedly on behalf of Iranian group
CHICAGO (WGN) — A former U.S. Navy sailor faces two decades in prison after pleading guilty to plotting to attack Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago, allegedly on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in order to avenge the death of one of its leaders. The Justice Department says 38-year-old Xuanyu Harry Pang of North Chicago pleaded guilty in federal court in Chicago "to conspiring to and attempting to willfully injure and …
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