Federal prosecutors say Jessica Bowie surveilled the Capitol, bought bomb-making materials and sought help from an undercover FBI source.
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A woman from New York connived to bomb the state Capitol in Albany after swearing allegiance to ISIS and praising the 9/11 terror attacks, the FBI said Thursday.
The woman, Jessica Bowie, 35, from Albany, supposedly started plotting the attack in July — and intended to place the bomb in a DoorDash food delivery bag, taking clear pleasure in the carnage it would provoke, the feds wrote in a criminal complaint.
“Blowing kafirs [non-Muslims] brains out is beautiful,” she told someone who turned out to be an FBI informant, the complaint said, according to a story by the Epoch Times.
On Wednesday, undercover agents allegedly provided Bowie with an inert explosive device and a nonfunctional handgun, along with instructions for detonating the device according to documents reviewed by ABC News.
She was later arrested by federal agents. During an interview with federal agents, Bowie allegedly acknowledged that she was facing a lengthy prison sentence.
According to a federal criminal complaint, Bowie converted to Islam about five years ago and later formed several social media accounts using an Islamic honorific. Various of those accounts were supposedly suspended for violating platform rules, according to NBC News.
🚨 TERRIFYING: The would-be Muslim terrorist in New York was spotted shopping in a BURKA for BOMB-making materials
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 21, 2026
"She went from a little girl waving the American flag after 9/11 to having stickers of the fallen towers."
She tracked the NY Capitol building for weeks.
ISLAMISM… pic.twitter.com/MtoUfSsCc9
Bowie allegedly told the FBI source that she wished to carry out the attack against the New York State Capitol because she wanted to “harm the enemies of God.” The Capitol was less than two miles from where Bowie lived, according to prosecutors.
Investigators spied Bowie for five weeks before her arrest and believed she was “radicalized online,” First Assistant US Attorney John A. Sarcone III said at a press conference Thursday evening.
Bowie allegedly sent one of the informants images of Downtown Albany with the Capitol circled, saying it was the building she wanted to target, confiding in them she would do it on a “day when we know Senators will be meeting,” according to the FBI.
In a message, she said she wanted to “Target my State Capitol… ideally in a way I could get away with and hop on a plane after,” the complaint said.
Bowie planned to escape to Syria after the attack, according to the feds.
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