Patsy Arrested With FBI-supplied Explosives in Dallas Bomb Plot

JASON TRAHAN, TODD J. GILLMAN and SCOTT GOLDSTEIN
The Dallas Morning News
September 25, 2009

Editor’s note: Another Muslim patsy arrested in government manufactured terror plot.

[efoods]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.

The arrest was part of an FBI sting operation that began after an agent monitoring an online extremist Web site discovered Smadi espousing jihad against the U.S. more than six months ago.

As more undercover Arabic-speaking agents engaged him, Smadi, living illegally in the U.S. in the small town of Italy, about 45 miles south of Dallas, pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden and expressed a desire to kill Americans, authorities said.

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This article was posted: Friday, September 25, 2009 at 10:15 am

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