Posted on 10/08/2009 5:58:26 AM PDT by SoonerStorm09
DALLAS – A 19-year-old Italy resident was arrested by federal authorities after he attempted to blow up a prominent downtown Dallas skyscraper last Thursday. Italy, a town of 2,000 located south of Waxahachie, was home to the Jordanian born Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, who worked at a Shell gas station on Interstate Highway 35 and lived in a Monolithic dome house in town.
Smadi was arrested in a sting operation when the phony bombs the Federal Bureau of Investigations provided to him to detonate failed to go off.
FBI agents, in widely reported news accounts, monitored Smadi for several months after he was seen in online Web sites favoring Islamic holy war against America.
The downtown Dallas building Smadi was alleged to have plotted to blow up was the 60-story blue-glass covered Fountain Place skyscraper, which played prominently in the 1980s TV show Dallas.
Officials said he was planning a Jihad against the United States and Jews by blowing-up the I.M. Pei-designed skyscraper, located on Ross Avenue. "The highest priority of the FBI and the Department of Justice remains the prevention of another terrorist attack within the United States," said U.S. Attorney Jacks in a news release.
"In that effort, it is the job of the FBI to locate and identify individuals intent upon carrying out any type of attack upon this country and its citizens/residents," said Jacks.
"Whether as part of a group or acting alone, persons contemplating such acts need to know that all components of the government are working together to ferret out their activities and to insure that such individuals face the full measure of the law.
"The identification and apprehension of this defendant, who was acting alone, is a sobering reminder that there are people among us who want to do us grave harm."
(Excerpt) Read more at elliscountypress.com ...
I would laugh at giving them all bomb making kits but the number of people in this area( N. Texas) who are angry that the poor peaceful kid was set up by the FBI.
I can only hope when another peaceful muslim does blow something up it is housed with the people angry at the FBI ( not to kill them btw, just shut them up with reality)
Good grief. So, now he's another victim of the system, huh? Poor widdle thing who was always such a good kid and never hurt a flea was set up by da man? You'd think Texans would have more sense.
It's a county newspaper. Almost everyone in Ellis County knows there is a town called Italy (it's pronounced IT-lee), on Interstate 35.
I think this is the same incident. The date on the article is Oct. 1, 2009
That being said, I’d have pointed out the nationality in the headline were I the editor.
DALLAS NEWS.com: "FBI, HOMELAND SECURITY DIRECTORS SAY ANTI-TERRORISM MEASURES WORKING" by Marjorie Korn (SNIPPET: "Hosam Smadi’s arrest was among a slew of apprehensions by the FBI in the past few weeks. Director Robert Mueller did not disclose much about the investigation, but he told the Senate homeland security committee that "the Internet played somewhat of a role" in radicalizing the 19-year-old living in Italy, Texas.") (October 1, 2009, 12:00 am CDT)
ILLEGAL ALIEN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTING TO USE WMD IN DALLAS WAS IMPRISONED IN JORDAN FIVE YEARS AGO, SAYS JORDANIAN GOVERNMENT" by Terrence P. Jeffrey (SNIPPET: "Hosam Maher Husein Smadi...") (September 25, 2009)
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