Kenyan charged with planning 9/11 style attacks in the US

Kenyan national Cholo Abdi Abdullah will appear in a New York City federal court Wednesday on terror-related charges. [Photo: Courtesy]

When prisoner number 76478-054 walked into New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Centre, the other 587 inmates held behind the dull brown walls of the building had no idea that if all had gone according to plan, the prisoner would have gone down in history as yet another infamous terrorist, out to cause as much pain as possible.