A 27-year-old Mississauga man serving a prison sentence for his role in a thwarted New York City terror attack in 2016 that was inspired by ISIS has pleaded guilty to stabbing two correctional officers with a weapon made from a steel desk in his cell.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday via a news release Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy’s guilty plea tied to the incident on Dec. 7, 2020.

Officials said El Bahnasawy was an inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary Allenwood in Pennsylvania at the time of the attack. He was found guilty in 2018 of plotting “the next 9/11” at Times Square and other busy areas in New York City.

Authorities said El Bahnasawy stabbed one officer in the head and face and another in the hand as she stepped in to assist. The first officer lost his right eye as a r

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