A former US Navy sailor, Xuanyu Harry Pang, has pleaded guilty to a federal charge related to a 2022 plot to attack Naval Station Great Lakes in northern Illinois. The plea agreement, unsealed on Thursday, revealed that Pang, 38, devised a plan involving Iranian actors to carry out an attack as retaliation for the death of Qasem Soleimani, a general of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who was killed in a US airstrike in 2020.
In November, Pang pleaded guilty in a Chicago federal court to conspiring to and attempting to willfully injure and destroy national defense material, premises, and utilities, specifically targeting Naval Station Great Lakes, with the intent to interfere with the national defense of the US.
