The Justice Department shared news Thursday that an Islamic State operative residing in Boston had planned to kill Pamela Geller, the woman who organized a Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas last year.
Junaid Hussain of England, 21, had been in talks with 26-year-old Usaamah Abdullah Rahim, as well as two others, according to court documents released Thursday.
Federal prosecutors said Hussain and Rahim had discussed killing Geller around July 4 in New York, where she resides.
But the group’s plan to behead Geller never came to fruition because Rahim chose to instead target a law enforcement official in June 2015. He was shot and killed in Roslindale, Mass. following an attack on a federal surveillance team.
Hussain was killed two months later in a drone strike of Raqqa, Syria.
Prosecutors have charged the other two accomplices — Nicholas Alexander Rovinski, 25, of Warwick, R.I., and David Wright, 26, or Everett, Mass. — with plotting a terror operation across national boundaries.
