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| Man accused of trying to bomb Dallas building |
| 2009-09-25 |
| A 19-year-old Jordanian man living in Texas was arrested Thursday on charges he intended to bomb a downtown Dallas skyscraper, federal officials said. Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested after placing what he believed to be a car bomb outside the 60-story Fountain Place office tower Thursday, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office in Dallas. The decoy device was given to him by an undercover FBI agent, the statement said. Smadi was charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. Federal officials said the case has no connection with the major terrorism investigation under way in Colorado and New York or the arrest Thursday of a man facing charges in a similar plot in Springfield, Ill. Another Muslim mass murderer are popping out of the woodwork? Common as cockroaches they are. Smadi drove to Dallas on Thursday, met one of the undercover agents and then drove to the targeted building, the FBI agent wrote. Smadi then allegedly drove a vehicle with the device into the parking garage beneath the building, parked it and attempted to detonate the bomb by setting the device's timer and flipping its power switch. Smadi met again with the undercover agent, who drove several blocks away and Smadi dialed a cell phone he was led to believe would detonate the car bomb, according to the affidavit. The case is unrelated to that against Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old shuttle driver at the Denver airport also indicted in New York on charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. It was also unrelated to the case against Michael C. Finton, who was accused of planning to bomb the federal courthouse in Springfield, Ill, White said. Another one? What is the score? Three horrific islamic mass murder plots stopped this week. In the Illinois case, a 29-year-old man who idolized American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh was arrested after attempting to detonate what he thought was a bomb inside a van outside a federal courthouse, officials said. Unpaid parking ticket? Michael C. Finton, also known as Talib Islam, was arrested and charged in a criminal complaint with one count of attempting to murder federal officers or employees and trying to detonate a weapon of mass destruction. But the Media told us if we elected Hussien Obama and kowtowed to the Saudis and Iranians, the muslims would love us. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #6 "But the Media told us if we elected Hussien Obama and kowtowed to the Saudis and Iranians, the muslims would love us." The right wingers told us if Obama was elected FBI and other agencies would no longer be able to protect us. Evidently not the case. And of course Bush always distinguished between the mass of the muslim world and the minority of terrorists and their supporters. BHO's initiatives are aimed at winning over the fence sitters, not at the hardcore jihadis. Whether he is succeeding at winning over the fence sitters is a legitimate debate (I think he is succeeding far less than many of his stary eyed advocates promised) but it doesnt really have anything to do with terror cells like this. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2009-09-25 11:22 |
| #5 Well, which is it? Both. Power on the detonator w/ a cell phone trigger and set a time delay. Multiple triggers in case one fails. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-09-25 09:46 |
| #4 Are there no competent editors in the US these days? No, Para, there are not, at least in any of the legacy media. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2009-09-25 09:27 |
| #3 ...attempted to detonate the bomb by setting the device's timer and flipping its power switch. Smadi met again with the undercover agent, who drove several blocks away and Smadi dialed a cell phone he was led to believe would detonate the car bomb... Well, which is it? Are there no competent editors in the US these days? |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2009-09-25 09:06 |
| #2 CNN reports the moose-limb in Dallas is an illegal alien... oops should have said aspiring immigrant. |
| Posted by: Bangkok Billy 2009-09-25 06:06 |
| #1 i thought WMD was reserved for the old 'NBC' stuff (nuclear, bio, chem) and not just explosives. did the def change, or is this 'journalism' at work? |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2009-09-25 01:01 |