Jordanian in Dallas area busted on terrorism charges

[Pliablemoose]

A 19-year-old Jordanian citizen is expected to make an appearance before a federal magistrate in Dallas this morning after authorities accused him of attempting to blow up a downtown Dallas skyscraper.

Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested Thursday after he parked a vehicle laden with government-supplied fake explosives in the underground parking garage of Fountain Place, a 60-story tower in the 1400 block of Ross Avenue at North Field Street, authorities said.

It's just a matter of time before one of these loons gets it right and actually pulls off a successful bombing..........

 

[Robor]

Fire up old sparky. :|

Kudos to those who prevented it. :beer:

 

[alchemize]

So, I wonder how this guy will be compared to say...the dudes down in Miami from a few years ago.

/fires up search

One thing about all these FBI setups and this stuff getting publicized, maybe it will help scare off the next homegrown idiot from trying something.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

If this doesn't step up the US in protecting it's borders better, hopefully it will get Texas law enforcement to more aggressively target illegals and monitor the Texas boarder with Mexico. Smadi was here illegally and from what I've heard on local radio shows he most likely came in from Mexico.

Hopefully this wakes up those in this country that think we should just let anyone flow over our borders. The entire Mexican border needs to be fenced, mined and patrolled.

 

[Modelworks]

They caught another guy doing something similar just days ago.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/...tml?section=cnn_latest

Authorities were waiting Wednesday for Michael Finton, also known as Talib Islam, who unwittingly had been dealing with undercover FBI agents continually monitoring his activities.

Justice Department officials said Finton, 29, of Decatur, Illinois, drove a vehicle he believed contained a ton of explosives to the Paul Findley Federal Building and Courthouse in Springfield. He got out of the truck, got into a waiting car with an undercover agent, and then, when he was a few blocks away, attempted to detonate the bomb with a remote-control device.

"When he pushed the button, nothing happened except he got handcuffs slapped on him," said one Justice Department official familiar with the case.

The truck contained inactive explosives.

Authorities said Finton idolized convicted terrorist John Walker Lindh -- an American who was captured fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan -- and said he wanted to go to a training camp abroad to become a jihadist fighter

Edit: My mistake it was the NY guy

Damn that is three of them.
http://www.latimes.com/news/na...09sep25,0,673953.story

Reporting from Washington and New York - A federal grand jury in New York indicted a Denver man on a terrorism charge Thursday after federal authorities alleged that he and possibly three others had gone on a buying spree of bomb-making chemicals and were preparing an attack on U.S. soil.

The one-count indictment alleges that Najibullah Zazi, 24, worked for more than a year on a plot to detonate a weapon of mass destruction.

Justice Department documents did not name the alleged co-conspirators, but said that three other Denver-area residents had bought unusual amounts of chemicals from beauty-supply stores, including hydrogen peroxide and acetone, which can be used to make explosives.

In all, authorities are searching for at least a dozen people for questioning in what they describe as the first Al Qaeda-linked plot on U.S. soil since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

"Zazi remained committed to detonating an explosive device up until the date of his arrest" last Saturday evening, nine days after he arrived in New York City, allegedly to meet with others involved in the plot, according to a Justice Department document.

The document was part of a motion also unsealed Thursday to keep Zazi detained in Colorado without bail. A federal judge agreed, setting the stage for Zazi's transfer to New York to face the terrorism charge.

The thing that concerns me about the Dallas guy is he bought thousands of dollars of bomb material and they have yet to find it. Hope he doesn't have friends. I wonder if it will make peroxide harder to get now. Peroxide based bombs are so easy to make and the stuff is everywhere. He bought his from hair salons.

 

[ElFenix]

these guys sound like low hanging fruit. or maybe fruit that's fallen off a tree. sure, they had the actual desire to blow things up, but these guys aren't real sleeper cells.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
these guys sound like low hanging fruit. or maybe fruit that's fallen off a tree. sure, they had the actual desire to blow things up, but these guys aren't real sleeper cells.

I agree, the Feds pretended they were a sleeper cell. I'm not real excited they were just this side of entrapped by the Feds, but if the loons are that stupid, their genetic material needs to be released on the inside of a prison cell :laugh: