Who was arrested for placing what he believed to be a car bomb in the Dallas bomb threat?”
Reported from the office of U.S attorney in Dallas, on Thursday FBI had arrested a person who was alleged for placing car bomb outside the 60 storey fountain place office tower. The man was charged of attempting the use of mass destruction weapon. Special Agent Mark White, spokesman for the Dallas FBI office, said that he was in the federal custody of Dallas. Smadi is likely to appear before court on Friday. FBI supervisory special agent Thomas Petrowski wrote in the affidavit. It is also doubted that he planned to attack on 11th September but waited to do so after the month of Ramadan. White also said that the case is not related to the cases of Najibullah Zazi and shuttle driver at the New York airport that were charged of conspiracy to use weapon of mass destruction and of Michael Finton who was accused of planning to blow the federal courthouse in Springfield. 3 undercover agents posing as members of al-Qaida sleeper cell met Smadi many times. They said that his plan was to target
Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested after allegedly placing what he believed to be a car bomb outside the 60-story Fountain Place office tower on Thursday, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Dallas. The decoy device was given to him by an undercover FBI agent, the statement said. Smadi is 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 Thursday arrest of a man facing the same charge in Springfield, Ill.
