Incarcerated at United States Penitentiary, Big Sandy
Allegiance
al-Qaeda
Motive
Terrorism
Conviction(s)
pled guilty
Criminal charge
1) attempt to murder, with malice aforethought, at least one US federal officer and employee; 2) attempt to use a weapon of mass destruction against property owned by the US.
Penalty
28 years incarceration
Michael C. Finton, also known as Talib Islam (Arabic: طالب إسلام – Ṭạlib Islām meaning "student of Islam"; born 1980), is an American convert to Islam and a part-time cook who attempted to bomb the Paul Findley Federal Building and the adjacent offices of Congressman Aaron Schock in downtown Springfield, Illinois, on 24 September 2009. He pleaded guilty in federal court on 9 May 2011 and was sentenced to 28 years in prison.
A resident of Decatur, Illinois, Finton was arrested by an undercover agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Anti-Terrorism Task Force, who was posing as an Al-Qaeda operative. He was charged with attempted murder and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.
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