Prosecutor tells jury of 9/11-style plot thwarted in the Philippines

FILE - Armed Al-Shabab fighters patrol in Mogadishu, Somalia, June 29, 2009. A prosecutor told a federal jury in Manhattan that Cholo Abdi Abdullah plotted an attack for four years that he hoped to carry out on behalf of the terrorist organization al-Shabab.

A Kenyan man who plotted a 9/11-style attack on a U.S. building was training as a commercial pilot in the Philippines when his plans were interrupted, a federal prosecutor told a New York jury Tuesday.