Mohamed Mahmood Alessa and Carlos Eduardo Almonte entered into a packaged plea deal in a Newark federal courtroom Thursday.

The men conspired to travel outside the U.S. “to murder individuals whose beliefs and practices did not accord with their extremist ideology, whom they referred to as, among other things, kuffar, kafir and apostates (‘non-Muslims’),” according to the charge they admitted.

The 21-year-old Alessa, of North Bergen, was born in the United States and is the son of Palestinian immigrants. Almonte, 24, of Elmwood Park, is a naturalized citizen who was born in the Dominican Republic. Both are Muslim....


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