An Ontario man serving time in the U.S. for plotting a mass-casualty terrorist attack in New York City pleaded guilty this week to stabbing two prison officers in 2020.

Federal law enforcement officials said Tuesday that 27-year-old Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy , a Kuwait-born Canadian citizen from Ontario, attacked the two officers on Dec. 7, 2020, at United State Penitentiary Allenwood.

According to officials, he used a weapon he made from part of a steel desk in his cell.

“Bahnasawy stabbed one officer in the head and face, and, when a second responded to assist, Bahnasawy stabbed her in the hand,” a release from the U.S. Department of Justice read.

The officer stabbed in the face eventually lost his right eye from the attack, officials said.

When Bahnasawy was restrained, the rele

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