Kansas man faces sentencing for role in foiled bomb plot

Alexander Blair has admitted his role in a foiled terrorist attack: aiding a wannabe Islamic State jihadist’s plan to detonate what they thought was a bomb at a Kansas military post to kill or maim as many U.S. service members as possible.

U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree will weigh that and other factors when he hears testimony and arguments as he calculates how much prison time, if any, the 29-year-old Topeka man should serve.

Prosecutors are seeking the maximum sentence for Blair, arguing that the government already considered his learning disability, known as Williams syndrome, and his limited role in the plot when it charged him with a lesser crime than Booker.