(Reuters) Jonathan Stempel - Munir Abdulkader, 22, from the Cincinnati suburb of West Chester, was sentenced on Nov. 23 to 20 years in prison for plotting to murder a U.S. military base employee at home and videotape the killing so it could be used in Islamic State propaganda. He also planned to attack a police station in the Cincinnati area with an AK-47 assault rifle he acquired and Molotov cocktails. Abdulkader, who became a U.S. citizen in 2006, expressed support for the Islamic State on Twitter, including a desire for martyrdom. He also communicated with Junaid Hussain, an Islamic State member who encouraged him to conduct a violent attack in the U.S. Hussain was killed in an August 2015 U.S. drone strike.
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