Lawyer: Man to plead guilty in Seattle terror plot

Seattle - One of two men accused of planning to attack a military recruiting station in Seattle last summer, has agreed to guilty, his lawyer said Wednesday.

Michele Shaw, Walli Mujahidh lawyer, confirmed by the Associated Press that he is guilty to several charges before a federal court on Thursday after the change-of-plea hearing was posted on the Court's calendar. He declined to comment further.

32-year-old from Los Angeles was arrested in June together with Khalid Abdul-Latif Seattle, an FBI sting. Federal prosecutors said the men were arrested when they arrived at the warehouse garage to pick up machine guns used in the attack.

The researchers said they learned the plot, when someone that Abdul-Latif employed to obtain arms turned to the Seattle police, and then was paid confidential informant.

The alleged target of the military Entrance Processing Station in East Marginal Way in Seattle, is a recruiting station in all military branches.

Abdul-Latif, who is also known as Joseph Anthony Davis, and Walli Mujahidh, also known as Frederick Domingue, Jr., who faced up to life imprisonment. Partly inspired by the massacre in Fort Hood, Texas, and the recent indictments in Washington State-based soldiers, three Afghan civilians deaths, they planned the attack for weeks, and fantasized about the media attention they get, the federal complaint.

Abdul-Latif was scheduled to face trial next May.

Prosecutors did not reveal how the suspects got to know, even if Mujahidh previously lived in Seattle. He was sentenced in the District Court of violating domestic violence protection order arising from the 2007 event.

Mujahidh voluntarily spoke to investigators after the arrests, and confessed, according to a federal complaint against them. A couple originally planned a joint attack on Base Lewis-McChord, but later moved to what they regarded as easier to target, the complaint said.

Abdul-Latif, 33, a criminal record and the family's troubled past, but claims that he draws a terrorist attack surprised those who knew him. He appears to several videos posted on YouTube to express sympathy for al-Qaeda leader in Yemen, and the excitement about a radical interpretation of Islam.

"We must create a 'jihad', Abdul-Latif said the video posted in May. "I do not care what anyone says that: You can take me in to the FBI or whatever. We must create a jihad in the language of the heart and hand."

The Associated Press could not independently confirm the YouTube account is Abdul-Latif's, but the name and age of the account sent to a match for him, and the video seemed to describe him.

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