Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy of Ontario, Canada, pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a 2020 assault on correctional officers at the U.S. Penitentiary in Allenwood, Pa., according to a press release issued on Nov. 4 from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Bahnasawy was serving time for conspiring to “use a weapon of mass destruction against persons and property within the United States,” according to his 2016 indictment . Undercover FBI agents foiled his planned attack that year during Ramadan in New York City, which started in June and ended in early July.

On Dec. 7, 2020, he attacked two officers using a weapon fashioned from a steel desk. He “stabbed one officer in the head and face,” and when a second officer intervened, he “stabbed her in the hand.”

The first officer “eventually lo

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