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| More terror arrests to come in Ohio |
| 2004-06-16 |
| High-ranking officials said the arrest of a Columbus terror suspect won’t be the last in Ohio’s capital city, NewsChannel 4’s Elenora Andrews reported. The FBI and Ohio’s terrorism task force say they are still tracking terror in the city. A key federal official told NewsChannel 4, "There is more to come" in Columbus, Andrews reported. Ohio’s top law enforcement officials said the arrest of Nuradin Abdi (pictured, left), 32, who was accused of planning to blow up a Columbus-area shopping mall, should serve as a wake-up call. "Understand that we are at war with terrorism, we are at war with an enemy that has no flag, and we are at war with an enemy that has no uniform," said Ohio State Highway Patrol Col. Paul McClellan said. Federal officials said the public might not have noticed anything unusual about Abdi, and his family said people shouldn’t. But high-ranking FBI officials told NewsChannel 4 that surveillance and evidence seized from Abdi, including cell phones and computers, show otherwise. On Tuesday, the FBI told NewsChannel 4 that agents previously contacted some Columbus-area shopping malls. Key federal officials also said the government expects to make another arrest in connection to terrorism, Andrews reported. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |