By Denise Lavoie
Associated Press
BOSTON — A criminal complaint says two men are charged with conspiring to help the Islamic State group by plotting with a Boston terror suspect to kill U.S. citizens to support the group’s objectives.
Nicholas Rovinski, of Warwick, Rhode Island, was arrested Thursday. David Wright, of Everett, Massachusetts, was arrested last week.
Both men are charged with conspiring with Usaama Rahim, who was killed last week by terror investigators who had him under surveillance. Authorities say Rahim lunged at police with a military-style knife.
Rovinski and Wright were charged Friday with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.
The criminal complaint says the men initially planned to behead a political activist whom law enforcement officials have identified as blogger Pamela Geller. But the complaint says Rahim later decided he would attack police.
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