The plot of one Kansas man to trigger a massive explosion at Fort Riley military base was foiled. The plot joins the increasing number of acts that American citizens planned to carry out for the ISIS terrorist group.

A 20-year old man from Kansas was planning on detonating a vehicle bomb at the Fort Riley military base, killing American soldiers in the process.

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Prosecutors announced last Friday that he had planned on doing this on behalf of ISIS.

The man is known as John T. Booker. He is also known as Mohammed Abdullah Hassan. 

Prosecutors also reported that Booker kept stating his desire to engage in violent jihad on behalf of ISIS.

He had joined the army as a recruit in order to gain access. As an insider, he would have all the opportunity to attack the base and kill American soldiers.

After a lengthy investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), he was arrested near the army base in Manhattan, Kansas, as he was finishing up preparations for his plot.

"As alleged in the complaint, John Booker attempted to attack U.S. military personnel on U.S. soil purportedly in the name of (ISIS)," said Assistant Attorney General John Carlin.

On Friday night, a second man was arrested. Alexander Blair of Topeka had been charged with one count of failing to report a felony.

Blair and Booker shared some extremist views. While Blair did not directly participate in the plot, he had loaned Booker some money to rent a storage unit where he kept the bomb components.

Booker's own terrorist act was just one of many such acts occurring in the United States.

Last March, an army national guard and his cousin were arrested in Chicago and Illinois, respectively, for conspiring to kill hundreds in a similar plot linked with the ISIS group.

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