http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5209103/
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"U.S. says mall bombing plot foiled
June 15: A Columbus, Ohio, man has been charged with participating in an al-Qaida plot to blow up a shopping mall in Ohio. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports."
Updated: 8:19 a.m. ET June 15, 2004
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "WASHINGTON - A Columbus, Ohio, man has been charged with participating in an al-Qaida plot to blow up a shopping mall in Ohio, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Monday.
“The American heartland was targeted for death and destruction by an al-Qaida cell,” Ashcroft said at a news conference announcing the four-count indictment against the man, Nuradin Abdi, 32, a cellular telephone business owner in Columbus who is originally from Somalia.
The indictment, which was handed up by a criminal grand jury in Columbus on Thursday and was unsealed Monday, charges that Abdi conspired with admitted al-Qaida member Iyman Faris and others to detonate a bomb at a shopping mall in the Columbus area after he obtained military-style training in Ethiopia."
Why is MSNBC putting out a story that's over a year old?
>> U.S. says mall bombing plot foiled <<
WOW!!! Thanks for finding this Cindy. You're awesome!
Folks, this proves what we've all known for sometime. Kudos to all on these TM threads. We've all known (thanks to TM) that malls would be targeted.
Thank God this plot was foiled. Who knows how many lives have been saved. Unfortunately, we've got a long, long way to go.
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=Iyman%20Faris%20
This may have been posted, if so ignore. please.
Iyman Faris was the truck driver who is in prison.
Have they waited all this time to close in on his cell?
I have family in Columbus. I hope they bury this guy under the prison if found guilty.
I've always thought and said they'd go after small town America if they really wanted to frighten people. Most of America is small town, and we who live there or in the country tend to feel safer because we're not in a "target" area.
I was at the pharmacy the other day and asked about purchasing decontamination powder. The pharmacist was a 20-something I'll never die type person. He was nice, and helpful but stated that we would never be hit or experience bio/chem or any other "big stuff". I just smiled and asked if talc would do to have in my supply. He said yes and I left. You know, though, where I live is in a moderate city, surrounded by army bases and symbolic targets. I really, truly think he was being a bit on the naive side. But then, when I was 20-something...........
(sigh)
