Noelle Velentez, Asia Siddiqui Arrested on NYC Terror-Related Charges, Reports Say
Two Queens women — described by one of them as “citizens of the Islamic State” — were arrested Thursday and charged with conspiring to detonate a bomb in the United States, officials and court papers said.
Authorities said Asia Siddiqui, 31, and Noelle Velentzas, 28, were inspired by the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings that killed three and injured 260. Siddiqui had stockpiled several propane tanks — the same devices used in the Boston attack — and had kept instructions from an online al-Qaida magazine detailing how to turn them into explosives, according to federal prosecutors.
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