Uzbek imprisoned in terror plot guilty of stabbing warden

Published March 13, 2018

An Uzbek refugee imprisoned for plotting to kill U.S. military personnel or civilians has pleaded guilty to trying to kill a California federal prison warden.

Fazliddin Kurbanov pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to attempted murder of a federal officer.

Federal prosecutors say the 34-year-old Kurbanov admitted fashioning a knife and trying to slit the throat of Calvin Johnson at the Federal Correctional Institute at Victorville in 2016.

Kurbanov faces at least 15 years added to the 25-year term he is serving for providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

Prosecutors say the Russian-speaking truck driver had downloaded jihadist and martyrdom videos from a terrorist website and communicated with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, a terrorist organization.

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