Aziz Sayyed, a former Huntsville college student, pleaded guilty today in federal court to a charge related to obtaining bomb making materials to blow up a police building on behalf of ISIS.

Federal prosecutors said the former Calhoun Community College student met with an agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation who he thought was a member of ISIS last year and expressed his desire to assist the terrorist organization.

Terrorism case in north Alabama: The FBI, Huntsville police and prosecutors are giving an update after Aziz Sayyed’s guilty plea in federal court today Posted by The Huntsville Times on Thursday, March 8, 2018

As part of a plea agreement, Sayyed, 23, pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

Under the terms of the deal, federal prosecutors recommended Sayyed be sentenced to 15 years in prison and be placed on supervised probation for the rest of his life.

Sayyed's attorney Bruce Gardner said the state agreed to drop its charges as a part of the deal.

Those charges, however, haven't been officially dropped yet.

U.S. District Judge Abdul K. Kallon set Sayyed's sentencing hearing for 3 p.m. on June 20 in Huntsville. The judge isn't bound by the plea agreement and can sentence Sayyed to up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Sayyed is accused of obtaining materials to make a triacetone triperoxide (TATP) bomb for use in a terror attack. He was arrested in June 2017, two days after he met with the FBI agent.

According to the facts presented in the plea deal, Sayyed obtained and viewed propaganda videos from terrorist organizations. These videos showed ISIS forces committing bombings, executions and beheadings.

Sayyed showed his support for the terrorist organization by singing ISIS chants, possessing an ISIS flag and saying the group was on the "right path," according to the 13-page plea deal.

When asked if he would ever participate in beheadings, Sayyed allegedly responded "is there any higher honor?"

In the deal, Sayyed admitted to discussing his aspirations to carry out an attack on Redstone Arsenal or on police stations with two different people. He went to a shooting range in northern Alabama to learn how to operate certain firearms and practice shooting them.

Speaking to reporters following today's hearing, Gardner called Sayyed "very intelligent. He is also very immature. He is young and impressionable. I would call him a, sort of, social misfit."

"In my heart of hearts, I don't think he ever would have ever really done it," the attorney said. "What he did far exceeded breaking the law, don't get me wrong."

Sayyed is an American citizen and was born in Raleigh, N.C. He was living in Huntsville to attend Calhoun Community College. Sayyed's parents live in Kuwait, Gardner said, adding that the young man's uncle lives in Huntsville and works for NASA.

Gardner said Sayyed's family in Kuwait is saddened that the young man went down this path.

Sayyed is being housed in the Cullman County Jail until his sentencing hearing. He is held on $250,000 cash bond.

Gardner said he will recommend Sayyed serve his sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega.