One of three Brooklyn men charged Wednesday planning to fight for Islamic State in Syria also allegedly offered to kill President Obama and plant a bomb on Coney Island if the terror group ordered him to do so, the Justice Department said.

Police arrested Akhror Saidakhmetov, 19, a citizen of Kazakhstan and resident of Brooklyn, on Wednesday at John F. Kennedy Airport as he attempted to board a flight to Istanbul. Prosecutors say he was en route to Syria where he plan to fight for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known as ISIS or ISIL, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn.

The complaint also charges Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, 24, and Abror Habibov, 30, both citizens of Uzbekistan living in Brooklyn. Juraboev and Saidakhmetov will appear in court later today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom in Brooklyn. Habibov will be arraigned in a court in Jacksonville, Fla.

Juraboev allegedly posted on an Uzbek-language, ISIS-affiliated website in August 2014 that he would kill President Obama if ordered to do so by ISIS, the complaint said. Saidakhmetov allegedly expressed his intent to buy a machine gun and shoot police officers and FBI agents if stopped from joining Islamic State in Syria, the complaint said.

Federal investigators have watched Juraboev and Saidakhmetov since the summer of 2014 after they posted online that they supported the establishment by force of an Islamic caliphate, or dynasty, in Iraq and Syria, the complaint said. Investigators say they devised a plan to travel to Turkey and Syria to fight on behalf of ISIS. Juraboev purchased a plane ticket for travel from New York to Istanbul for March 29, the complaint said.

Habibov helped gather supporters in the U.S. to pay for Saidakhmetov's travel to join Islamic State, the complaint said.

"The flow of foreign fighters to Syria represents an evolving threat to our country and to our allies," U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said in a statement. "We will vigorously prosecutoe those who attempt to travel to Syria to wage violent jihad on behalf of ISIL and those who support them."

If convicted, the men could be sentences to 15 years in prison. (Source: USA Today)

Story Date: February 25, 2015