17-year-old terror suspect considered attack on Pride parade, prosecutors claim

The District Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia has said a teenager who was arrested in connection with a federal terror probe, was learning how to make bombs and allegedly had his eyes set on the local LGBTQ+ community.

Muhyee Ud-Din Abdul-Rahman, who was just 17 when he was arrested in August 2023, has been charged with possessing weapons of mass destruction, arson, causing or risking catastrophe, criminal conspiracy, attempt to commit criminal mischief, possession of an instrument of crime and recklessly endangering another person. 

He will be tried as an adult and, if convicted, could face up for 48 years in prison.

He first came under surveillance in March 2023 when the FBI allegedly became of aware of communications between Abdul-Rahman and Katibat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (KTJ), a designated terrorist organisation based

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