U.S. man arrested in car bombing plot of Kansas army base

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By Lindsay Dunsmuir and Kevin Murphy WASHINGTON/KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - A U.S. man was arrested on Friday for an alleged plot to explode a car bomb at the Fort Riley army base in Kansas as part of a suicide mission in support of the Islamic State militant group, the Justice Department said. John T. Booker, Jr., 20, of Topeka, Kansas, was taken into custody this morning as part of a sting operation after he and two undercover FBI agents arrived at the military base to detonate what he did not realize was an inert bomb, prosecutors said.

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