Queens Woman Gets 15 Years For Plotting Terror Attack

JAMAICA, QUEENS — A judge sentenced a Queens woman to 15 years in prison for her role in planning to build a bomb for a terrorist attack, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.

Jamaica resident Asia Siddiqui and a co-conspirator, fellow Jamaica resident Noelle Velentzas, had discussed the "need to prepare for jihad" with an undercover agent for months before their arrests in 2015, according to the New York Post.

They initially pleaded not guilty, then entered guilty pleas in August.

From 2013 to 2015, prosecutors say the duo researched how to make explosives like the ones used in the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 1993 World Trade Center attack.

Siddiqui had discussed her interest in committing a terrorist attack in written submissions to a jihadist magazine edited by a now-deceased member of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, according to prosecutors.

The women planned to target law enforcement and military-related groups, prosecutors said.

Law enforcement officers seized propane gas tanks, soldering tools, car bomb instructions, jihadist literature, machetes and several knives from the women's homes during their arrests.