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U.S. Airport Worker Arrested for Car Bomb Plot
[An Nahar] U.S. authorities tossed in the calabooseYou have the right to remain silent... an aviation worker Friday in an apparent sting operation after he tried to explode what he thought was a boom-mobile at an airport in the state of Kansas. Terry Lee Loewen, 58, was apprehended as part of an undercover investigation when he arrived at Wichita airport. The avionics technician had been under investigation for several months by a terrorism task force in Wichita. "Those explosives were inert and it was not a bomb that would ever explode," U.S. attorney for Kansas Barry Grissom told news hounds. Grissom did not reveal where Loewen had obtained the inert bomb. In previous similar cases undercover officers have supplied suspects with bomb-making materials. He was charged with trying to use a weapon of mass destruction, trying to damage property with explosives and trying to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. "At no time was the airport perimeter breached, and ... at no time was any citizen or a member of the traveling public in any type of danger," Grissom said. Posted by: Fred 2013-12-14 |
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