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Houston terror suspect reportedly wanted to blow up Galleria, Sharpstown Mall
KTRK Houston ^ | 1-13-2016

Posted on 01/13/2016 4:41:23 PM PST by Snickering Hound

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 disturbing allegations against him.

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 agent says Al Hardan and Al-Jayab messaged about traveling to Syria, and joining ISIS fighters. In an apparently recorded conversation, he allegedly told his young wife that he was going to "make her a widow" after he gets his U.S. passport. Authorities say Al Hardan told his 18-year-old wife and elderly mother that he wanted to fight with ISIS, and blow himself up.

Al Hardan was arrested on January 6 at the Department of Homeland Security.

Prosecutors allege the Houston terror suspect has been assisting ISIS with material support and resources since at least May 2014, and also made false statements to investigators.

Al Hardan appeared before a federal judge for the first time on Friday, answering some questions in English, others through a translator.

The Houston terror suspect is a Palestinian born in Iraq, but has lived among us since November 2, 2009, when he entered the United States as a refugee.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria; US: New York; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016election; alhardan; daesh; dreamer; election2016; hijrah; houston; houstoncell; iran; iraq; isil; isis; jihad; newyork; omaralhardan; palestinian; palestinians; philistine; polecatinians; refugee; refugees; rop; texas; trump
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1 posted on 01/13/2016 4:41:23 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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told his 18-year-old wife and elderly mother that he wanted to fight with ISIS, and blow himself up.

They should put an old humvee in a field, point and say, "go for it"

2 posted on 01/13/2016 4:44:17 PM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Snickering Hound

Another budding Islamic terrorist.

Apparently he couldn’t get enough jihad.


3 posted on 01/13/2016 4:44:25 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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A “refugee”. Let me conclude that we had better get control of these Wahhabi sunnis real fast. What are we doing to ourselves? Children are going to die. GET THEM OUT OF HERE!!


4 posted on 01/13/2016 4:47:28 PM PST by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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Did the wife and mother report him? Deport their sorry asses too...


5 posted on 01/13/2016 4:50:00 PM PST by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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To: Snickering Hound

If he had targeted Greenspoint mall (aka Gunspoint) I might understand.


6 posted on 01/13/2016 4:51:53 PM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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“Sharpstown Mall”?

Now known as ‘PlazAmericas’ (as in C & S Americas), a rundown, mostly Hispanic, mercado now.

Lost all its anchor stores years ago.


7 posted on 01/13/2016 4:55:55 PM PST by Ready4Freddy
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...wanted to blow up the Galleria

The Galleria in Houston is a huge, beautiful shopping mall with an ice skating rink. One would think that all democrats would worry that they and /or their kids might be at these malls when if an islamic bast*rd sets off some kind of bom* You'd think democrats in Houston and all across the country would swamp their democrat representatives and have them tell mullah obama Not to let in any islamic rapefugees!

8 posted on 01/13/2016 4:58:19 PM PST by Mr Apple ( TRUMP 2016 - - BUILD THE WALL - - NO TO ALL ISLAMIC MUSLIM RAPEFUGEES)
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Yet a hijab’d babe supposedly is “uncomfortable” at a Trump Rally

So what was worse, dear? One of your “Brothers” wants to blow up malls, or some people “stared” at you?


9 posted on 01/13/2016 5:21:24 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (If you're "offended" by "Merry Christmas" then you have much bigger issues)
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They try to convince themselves it ain’t gonna happen

They won’t WTFU until it actually does happen . .which it will and the rest of us all know it


10 posted on 01/13/2016 5:25:19 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (If you're "offended" by "Merry Christmas" then you have much bigger issues)
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terror suspect has been assisting ISIS with material support and resources since at least May 2014

Two years is one of the better responses from the feds.

11 posted on 01/13/2016 5:25:52 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Snickering Hound

That Muslim training camp outside Houston has been a point of controversy for years. Good to know we have an informant in there, but he probably can’t know everything that goes on.


12 posted on 01/13/2016 5:26:22 PM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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I reckon it’ll take two malls and one school before the people get what’s happening and eliminate the threat from the headchoppers.


13 posted on 01/13/2016 5:31:05 PM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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Sharpstown Mall? Last time I was in that part of town, the place was a dump and the surrounding area no better.

Houstonians - has it been gentrified? Per wikipedia, it appears they are trying to replace the black gangs with Mexican gangs.


14 posted on 01/13/2016 5:39:59 PM PST by PAR35
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Loved the comment about Greenspoint Mall. Somebody needs to take down Sharpstown Mall so I would be okay with that. Will not even go there when we are carrying. Years ago it used to be an okay place to shop but most of Southwest Houston totally in the dumper.


15 posted on 01/13/2016 5:51:58 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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[[Yet a hijab’d babe supposedly is “uncomfortable” at a Trump Rally

So what was worse, dear? One of your “Brothers” wants to blow up malls, or some people “stared” at you?]]

Turns out the “islamaphobia” victim is a Jew hating terrorist supporter.

Islamic Protester Booted from Trump Rally Is Anti-Israel Activist, Promotes Radical Imams
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/09/islamic-protester-booted-from-trump-rally-is-anti-israel-radical/


16 posted on 01/13/2016 5:58:21 PM PST by Lera
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To: Snickering Hound

Like a broken record...
And about as predictable as the sun rising...


17 posted on 01/13/2016 6:00:10 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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Note 1.
Public gathering places again, not necessarily the government and financial centers most often considered targets. (Once again, Clancy was prophetic)

Note 2.
Coward wasn’t ready to meet Allah, thank goodness. His desire for remote detonation versus suicide jihad was a difference. That won’t always be so, refer to Garland and SB for deltas.

Note 3.
There is no such thing as a Palestinian born in Iraq. He’s an Iraqi. The MSM marriage to PC is enabling a narrative of oppression response versus the reality of rabid wolves seeking carnage.


18 posted on 01/13/2016 6:23:38 PM PST by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: Lera

This is a second “victim” who cited the first “victim” in her article. It is posted here, it is a Guardian article as I recall.

But some people “Stared” at her. Oh the horror. And it wasn’t like she asked for it, going to a Trump Rally in a freakin Muslim headscarf.

PROVIDED “She” actually went at all, of which I have serious doubt.


19 posted on 01/13/2016 6:35:48 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (If you're "offended" by "Merry Christmas" then you have much bigger issues)
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I was surprised to learn that his name sounds so Amish!


20 posted on 01/13/2016 7:01:41 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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