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Title at link: HOUSTON TERROR SUSPECT REPORTEDLY WANTED TO BLOW UP GALLERIA, SHARPSTOWN MALL
ABC13 Eyewitness News/Houston ^ | January 13, 2016 | Staff

Posted on 01/14/2016 10:09:40 AM PST by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A terror suspect who was arrested in Houston last week went before a judge Wednesday afternoon, where his bond was denied. During testimony, we learned he allegedly discussed placing bombs at Houston's Galleria.

Eyewitness News also obtained photographic evidence used during the bond hearing -- photos of what was seized from his apartment and one of Al Hardan allegedly pledging his loyalty to the Islamic State.

A federal investigator testified that Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan, 24, wanted to blow up the Galleria and Sharpstown Mall with a remote bomb. According to testimony, Al Hardan would put the bomb in a trash can and detonate it using a cell phone.

They also say he received military training on how to use an AK-47 late last year at a farm just outside of Houston. Agents say the training was conducted with a confidential informant, and the entire event was recorded by federal investigators.

The federal agent also said that Al Hardan wanted to sneak into a military base in Grand Prairie, Texas, and blow up Humvees.

The government says it began investigating Al Hardan's alleged terrorism ties in 2014, when he began using Facebook Messenger to communicate with another terrorism suspect, Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab, in Sacramento, California.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc13.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: isis; terror
Don't worry, Obama says ISIS is contained and we don't face any existential threats.

Of course, the MSM and the White House are ignoring this.

1 posted on 01/14/2016 10:09:40 AM PST by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

He just wanted to add to the rich fabric of American society.

Funny thing going around facebook this morning. Pic of many M+Ms in a big bowl. Says this is like the refugee problem. There are 10,000 M+Ms in the bowl. Only 10 are poisoned and will kill you.

How many M+Ms would you eat?


2 posted on 01/14/2016 10:14:25 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Trump and/or Cruz, it's all good.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

I have looked and so NO reports on this from the American media. UK is reporting on it though.


3 posted on 01/14/2016 10:16:07 AM PST by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("There's always free cheese in a mousetrap." - Marine Col. Peter Martinow)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Sharpstown mall has been pretty blowed up already since the 80’s.


4 posted on 01/14/2016 10:20:05 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

We spent a few nights at the attached Westin last fall, so spent quite a bit of time cruising the huge Galleria....tons of Achmed wimmins with their headgear, so the bomber would have had lots of ‘collateral damage’....


5 posted on 01/14/2016 10:21:14 AM PST by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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To: Snickering Hound

“Omar”??? Typical moozlum following moozlum dictates. Read the koran.


6 posted on 01/14/2016 10:21:46 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Well no worries when he gets out Houston ISD will hire him to teach Arabic at the little red schoolhouse


7 posted on 01/14/2016 10:27:04 AM PST by magna carta
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To: Snickering Hound

“Sharpstown mall has been pretty blowed up already since the 80’s.”

By ISIS terrorists?


8 posted on 01/14/2016 10:27:43 AM PST by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("There's always free cheese in a mousetrap." - Marine Col. Peter Martinow)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
They also say he received military training on how to use an AK-47 late last year at a farm just outside of Houston. Agents say the training was conducted with a confidential informant, and the entire event was recorded by federal investigators.

The federal agent also said that Al Hardan wanted to sneak into a military base in Grand Prairie, Texas, and blow up Humvees.

Anyone care to wager this is also how the LEO, specificly the Federal Alphabet Soup gangs knew who the San Bernadino terrorist were so fast after the fact? Maybe a little instruction taking place ?

9 posted on 01/14/2016 10:30:00 AM PST by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRBA-LqhNQ8

Sharpstown would be the mall “white people used to go to” as Chris Rock would say.


10 posted on 01/14/2016 10:31:47 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
re: Your Tagline: "There's always free cheese in a mousetrap." - Marine Col. Peter Martinow
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11 posted on 01/14/2016 10:39:53 AM PST by Mycroft Holmes (The fool is always greater than the proof.)
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To: lonevoice

ping


12 posted on 01/14/2016 10:58:09 AM PST by Pride in the USA
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

“Sharpstown mall has been pretty blowed up already since the 80’s.”

“By ISIS terrorists?”

The last time I was there, it overun by Dindoo Nuffins with an attitude. I won’t go back.


13 posted on 01/14/2016 10:58:59 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Snickering Hound

Maybe they should reinvestigate to make sure he didn’t detonate an explosive there and people just didn’t notice.


14 posted on 01/14/2016 11:31:27 AM PST by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: USNBandit

By the amount of litter those people throw on the ground constantly, it does indeed look like an explosion occurred.

Mostly an explosion of fast food wrappers and dirty disposable diapers.

It’s cultural. They come from a society that has no regard for putting litter in it’s proper place.


15 posted on 01/14/2016 11:59:07 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Hey Man,
I’ve been ice skating at Houston’s Galleria.
Too kool.


16 posted on 01/14/2016 12:46:52 PM PST by Joe Boucher (Rubio is a liar, Jeb is worthless, Go Cruz ,Keep stirring the pot Donald.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

I doubt that they could tell a terrorist hit at Sharpstown apart from a typical shopping day there, but attacking The Galleria would be a BIG DEAL.


17 posted on 01/14/2016 4:03:36 PM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Oh, he really wasn’t serious! Just typical youthful braggadocio!!! /sarcasm


18 posted on 01/14/2016 7:28:47 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

“Obama says ISIS is contained and we don’t face any existential threats.”

Proof that you can be an idiot and still get a Harvard degree!!!


19 posted on 01/14/2016 7:30:38 PM PST by Frank_2001
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