WILLIAMSPORT — “It closes a chapter in the book,” was the comment of a federal corrections officer after the inmate who stabbed him in the eye five years ago pleaded guilty.

Dale Franquet Jr., his family and more than a dozen federal prison guards watched Tuesday in U.S. Middle District Court as Abdulrahman el Bahnasawy, an admitted ISIS sympathizer, entered the plea by video.

He did so in a steel cage in the administrative security U.S. penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, with his attorney Andrew J. Frisch sitting outside.

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