wrote on X<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n\n Between May and July, several social media accounts traced back to Bowie \u201csent messages relaying support for terrorism,\u201d according to the criminal complaint. By mid-July, an undercover FBI informant posing as an ISIS facilitator was messaging with her.\n <\/p>\n
\n Bowie asked the informant for help \u201cmaking explosives to carry out an attack,\u201d according to the complaint, and then deleted the messages.\n <\/p>\n
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\n \u201cI would like to targey (sic) state capitol. But ideally in a way I could get a way with and hop on a plane after,\u201d Bowie wrote. \u201cBut idk if it\u2019s doable.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Over the next two weeks, Bowie continued to message the informant, sending photos of the Capitol and circling where she intended to target.\n <\/p>\n
\n Bowie told the informant she planned to put the bomb in a food delivery service bag so as to look like a delivery person, and then escape to Syria, according to the complaint.\n <\/p>\n
\n A week later, on August 5, Bowie met with two other informants inside a car \u2013 a meeting that was, unbeknownst to her, filmed and recorded.\n <\/p>\n
\n During that meeting, Bowie \u201creaffirmed her desire to bomb the New York State Capitol,\u201d the complaint states, and allegedly told the informants, \u201cwe definitely want to make sure the senators get killed for sure,\u201d later adding, \u201cI don\u2019t want to take this kind of risk and then have it kill what, two or three people what good is that?\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n That afternoon, the informants drove Bowie to a Home Depot and lent her $200. She purchased the supplies they had told her she would need, including \u201ca large plastic bin full of nails,\u201d officials said.\n <\/p>\n
\n Bowie later messaged an informant asking for someone who can sell her a \u201chand gun and bullets something powerful but easy enough to conceal so if the cops do get towards me during the operation I can shoot back.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n On Wednesday, Bowie met up with two informants in a car and paid $150 for a firearm (that was inert), ammunition and one magazine, the complaint alleges.\n <\/p>\n
\n An informant then showed Bowie an inert explosive device they claimed was built from the supplies she had bought at Home Depot. Bowie gave the informant $200 as a donation \u201cto the purported bombmaker,\u201d the complaint says.\n <\/p>\n
\n She said she learned the Capitol building housed as many as 200 people and \u201choped she could take out at least half of that,\u201d the complaint states.\n <\/p>\n
\n Bowie also allegedly told the informants \u201cshe went from a little girl waving an American flag after 9\/11 to now having stickers of the fallen towers,\u201d according to the complaint.\n <\/p>\n
\n When Bowie got out of the vehicle, with the inert gun and explosive, she was arrested by the FBI.\n <\/p>\n
\n Bowie had allegedly planned to \u201cflee the country\u201d and eventually return to \u201cdo more, such as New Year\u2019s Eve in Times Square,\u201d Tremaroli said. Bowie also allegedly stated that she \u201cwould come back to attack the White House and the president, but only after she bombed the state capitol.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cMiss Bowie\u2019s alleged plot was serious. It was dangerous, and thanks to the partnerships on the FBI\u2019s Joint Terrorism Task Force, it was foiled,\u201d Tremaroli said.\n <\/p>\n
\n Bowie currently only faces one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization \u2013 a charge that has come under legal scrutiny recently in federal courts.\n <\/p>\n
\n A panel of federal appellate judges in April issued a landmark ruling essentially finding that if someone is charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization, they must be in or seek direct contact with a terrorist organization with group members.\n <\/p>\n
\n In that case, the appeals court dismissed<\/a> that count against a man convicted for detonating a pipe bomb in a Manhattan subway corridor in 2017, ruling that he acted alone with no direct coordination with ISIS.\n <\/p>\n\n Federal prosecutors in that case are appealing the ruling, but in the meantime, the legal precedent stands.\n <\/p>\n
\n Like Bowie, Akayed Ullah openly declared allegiance to the terror group, but was inspired to action by ISIS propaganda materials.\n <\/p>\n
\n It is unclear if Bowie had direct contact with ISIS members.\n <\/p>\n
\n Law enforcement declined to speak beyond the criminal complaint during a news conference Thursday.\n <\/p>\n
\n Bowie was arrested on a criminal complaint so prosecutors can amend the charges against her in a later indictment. The legal precedent set by the Ullah case could come up in legal arguments ahead of any trial for Bowie.\n <\/p>\n
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