A 27-year-old man from Ontario has pleaded guilty to stabbing two correctional officers at a U.S. prison in 2020 while serving a sentence for plotting a terrorist attack in New York City.

The U.S. Department of Justice says Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy was an inmate at the United States Penitentiary Allenwood in Pennsylvania when he attacked two corrections officers using a weapon made from a part of a steel desk in his cell on Dec. 7, 2020.

It says he stabbed one officer in the head and face and when a second officer responded to assist, he stabbed her in the hand.

Officials say the first officer eventually lost his right eye as a result of the attack.

They say a note was found in El Bahnasawy’s sock that read, “This is a terrorist attack for the Islamic State,” and a pledge of allegiance

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