http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-car-bomb-charge-0918-20120918,0,4833522,full.story
“Car bomb suspect appears in court
Allegedly plotted to blow up Loop bar”
SNIPPET: “Online and in email exchanges with undercover FBI operatives, Daoud talked of wanting to engage in terrorism here and abroad. He allegedly drew up a list of 29 targets for an undercover agent, including bars, malls and military recruiting centers before settling on the downtown location.
“I wanted something that’s … massive; I want something that’s gonna make it in the news like tonight,” he was alleged to say in one recorded conversation.”
http://www.investigativeproject.org/3749/chicago-teen-vows-to-fight-bomb-plot-charges
For The Record - The IPT Blog
“Chicago Teen Vows to Fight Bomb Plot Charges”
by Abha Shankar • Sep 17, 2012 at 5:57 pm
SNIPPET: “He also registered with an online jihad-related Internet forum and e-mailed individuals a PowerPoint presentation titled “The Osama bin Laden I Know.”
“Osama wasn’t crazy for wanting to destroy America,” he wrote. “This superpower killed millions of people.”
Daoud also praised American-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, writing that “those people insulting awlaki can go kill themselves” and prayed that Awlaki, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen last year, would be accepted as a martyr.
Court records indicate Daoud’s desire to carry out a terrorist attack was spurred by instructions from al-Qaida’s Inspire magazine: “I live in the United States of America/hypocrisy. I want to in the future insha’Allah go for jihad in the Cause of Allah….i hate the oppression of the USA and i would love to do something that would hurt it from the inside.”
American civilians were “legal targets” for attack, he wrote, because Americans “pay their taxes which fund the government’s war against Islam” and they “VOTE for the leaders who kill us every day.””