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More on the busted Columbus plot
Nuradin Abdi is back in court, accused of plotting to blowup a Columbus shopping mall.Investigators say he made statements that connected him to the alleged terrorist plot. His lawyer is trying to get those statements thrown out before his trial in September. Thursday, 10TV learned more about this alleged attempt to blowup a Columbus shopping mall and about the suspect who the government claims admitted to trying to carry out the terrorist attack. Thursday morning, Abdi was escorted under heavy guard to the federal courthouse. He's accused of supplying material to a known terrorist group, specifically al-Qaeda, and associating with convicted terrorist Iyman Faris. His attorney says the government didn't have probable cause to arrest Abdi and charged the government with misconduct in an attempt to get him to confess. Thursday morning an FBI agent testified Abdi told Faris, "We need to get an AK-47 and shoot up a mall." The government has not released which mall that was but they believed the alleged plot was supposed to take place the day after Thanksgiving, the busiest shopping day of the year. Abdi's attorney says his client only confessed to the crime after the government broke him down and, "turned him into a madman." Posted by: Dan Darling 2005-08-25 |
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