An ISIS terrorist in the Northwest targeted 13 Christian churches.
The terrorist’s plan of attack was “truly horrific” and “a violent plot” to kill Christians in Idaho on behalf of ISIS.
The FBI arrested the 18-year-old Idaho resident Alexander Mercurio–thankfully, they arrested him before he could carry out his plan.
According to an FBI statement, Mercurio “rejected the faith of his Christian parents and adopted the Muslim faith, planning to use explosives, knives, and firearms in his attack on local churches on the Sunday before the end of Ramadan.”
The FBI complaint continued, saying, “He [Mercurio] devised a plan to incapacitate his father, restrain him using handcuffs, and steal his firearms to use for maximum casualties in an attack he had been planning to carry out in the northern Idaho resort city Coeur d’Alene.”
“The defendant allegedly pledged loyalty to ISIS and sought to attack people attending churches in Idaho, a truly horrific plan which was detected and thwarted by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement.
“Mercurio spread ISIS propaganda online and solicited ISIS’s involvement in and approval of his propaganda efforts, discussed traveling from the United States to join ISIS, [and] considered and planned ways to support ISIS financially,” an FBI investigator wrote in the complaint.
“His attack plan involved using flame-covered weapons, explosives, knives, a machete, a pipe, and ultimately firearms,” the investigator added. “His plan grew more precise as he eventually identified the specific church and date on which he planned to attack. Mercurio made a ba’yah statement, pledging his allegiance to ISIS and stating his intention to die while killing others on behalf of ISIS.”
The FBI claims that Mercurio is an example of “how people can be self-radicalized.”
Mercurio faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted.
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