A Kenyan man has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for conspiring to attack Atlanta’s Bank of America building.
Cholo Abdi Abdullah, 34, was sentenced on Monday to two consecutive life sentences after being convicted of several crimes in Nov. 2024.
Federal prosecutors say Abdullah is a member of al-Shabaab, a Somalian terrorist organization affiliated with Al Qaeda.
They say Abdullah joined the organization in 2015 and spent the next year receiving military training.
That’s when he was recruited for a “greater plan,” which involved him training to become an airline pilot so he could hijack a commercial plane and crash it into a U.S. building.
From 2017 to 2019, Abdullah trained at a flight school in the Philippines. When he was arrested in July 2019, he was had completed all but one of the requirements to receive his commercial pilot license.
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