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The wannabe upstate jihadi Jane charged with plotting to bomb the New York State Capitol joined ISIS through social media after a recruiter urged her to take an oath to \u201cobey\u201d the terrorist group\u2019s leader, chilling messages reveal.<\/p>\n

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Jessica Bowie, 35 \u2014 who planned to attack the building with a bomb hidden in a DoorDash food delivery bag \u2014 appeared clueless after the unidentified militant sent her a message on a \u201cwell-known\u201d social media site on May 28, according to a federal criminal complaint.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe pledge our allegiance to the Commander of the Faithful and the Caliph of the Muslims, the Mujahid Sheikh Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, to listen and obey,\u201d\u00a0the user instructed her in Arabic to say, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n

Bowie then asked in a bumbling reply, \u201cSo, I\u2019m just saying this?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil you join the [Islamic State],\u201d the user responded.<\/p>\n

\u201cSaying this means joining the [Islamic State]?\u201d she asked again,\u00a0before the user wrote back, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bowie immediately sent the user an audio file of herself saying the oath, which vowed loyalty to the current leader of ISIS, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n

The exchange was part of\u00a0Bowie\u2019s \u201cbayah\u201d \u2014 a formal oath of allegiance in the Islamic tradition \u2014 and hints at how she became \u201cradicalized online,\u201d according to authorities.<\/p>\n

She allegedly then sent a second audio file vowing official allegiance to ISIS to another \u201cjihadist\u201d through a different social media site on May 30.<\/p>\n

Bowie, who joined Islam five years ago, also sent messages revealing that she planned to move from Albany to ISIS-run territory in the Middle East, according to the feds.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWhen I can migrate, I will poison these infidels,\u201d she wrote in another message on social media, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s unclear which social media sites Bowie used, but she was sometimes kicked off for expressing radical Islamic views, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n

\u201cPraise be to Allah for September 11th,\u201d she allegedly wrote on one account in May.<\/p>\n

Bowie allegedly bought\u00a0bomb materials from a Home Depot on Aug. 5, while wearing a burqa, and planned to blow up the Capitol building with help from accomplices, who turned out to be FBI informants,\u00a0 according to federal authorities.<\/p>\n

She told an informant that she went from a little girl \u201cwaving the American flag\u201d after 9\/11 to now having stickers of the fallen towers, according to the feds.<\/p>\n

First Assistant US Attorney John A. Sarcone III said at a press conference that Bowie was on the feds\u2019 radar for weeks leading up to her arrest and was believed to have been \u201cradicalized online.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The ISIS-inspired militant planned to escape to Syria after the attack, according to the feds.<\/p>\n

Bowie was arrested Wednesday.<\/p>\n

After her bust, she allegedly told FBI agents, \u201cThere\u2019s no helping me, you guys know enough, there\u2019s no helping me, I\u2019m \u2026 going to prison for the rest of my life,\u201d according to the complaint.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaterial support is up to 20 years in prison, I already Googled it before, I know I\u2019m going to jail,\u201d she allegedly said.<\/p>\n

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