{"id":327109,"date":"2026-08-22T01:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T01:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327109\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T01:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T01:02:19","slug":"what-we-know-about-suspected-capital-bomber-jessica-bowie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327109\/","title":{"rendered":"What we know about suspected Capital bomber, Jessica Bowie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) \u2014 The federal government said she\u2019s a radicalized, would-be terrorist who was intent on blowing up the state Capitol of New York. But questions still remain about who <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/search?find=Jessica+Bowie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jessica Bowie<\/a> is and how she became radicalized.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old woman was charged by federal prosecutors on Thursday after she was arrested on Wednesday. This follows an investigation in which Bowie was plotting an attack on the state Capitol with someone she believed had connections with ISIS, court documents show.<\/p>\n<p>According to those documents, Bowie converted to Islam in 2021 and adopted the name \u201cAisha Saif.\u201d Prosecutors revealed she lived in Albany on Sherman St., just a block away from Central Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>CBS6 went to Sherman St. and knocked on the door of the home and heard activity inside, but no one answered the door. One neighbor, who didn\u2019t want to give his name, said he didn\u2019t feel safe knowing that a neighbor had been plotting a violent attack. He also said he\u2019d seen the woman, though he had never seen her face since she wore Muslim garb covering her face. The man said he and other neighbors had been questioned by the FBI about the woman.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents quote Bowie as saying she had been \u201ca little girl waving an American flag after 9\/11.\u201d But how she got from that to \u201cAisha Saif,\u201d and now behind bars, is still a mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) \u2014 The federal government said she\u2019s a radicalized, would-be terrorist who was intent on blowing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-327109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}