Sabtu, 18 Februari 2012

Capitol bomb plot arrest capped yearlong probe

Within the aftermost week, authorities say, Amine El Khalifi's plan to wreak calamity was proceeding as hoped: An al-Qaida accessory handed him an automated weapon to annihilate aegis admiral central the U.S. Capitol. A bomb-laden belong would bang the building. He would die as a martyr. But there was a problem: The explosives were inert, the gun busted and the declared al-Qaida affiliate was absolutely an clandestine officer, according to cloister documents.El Khalifi was arrested Friday in a parking barn on his way to backpack out an advance the FBI says he kicked about beyond assorted states for months, alike atomic a convenance bomb in a quarry and again allurement for a bigger blast, all with assorted targets in mind.An FBI affirmation traces the change of the artifice from a ambiguous plan to adapt for the "war on Muslims" to added acutely articulate visions of advancing a restaurant and abbey to, finally, a ambition of obliterating the bench of American government.The certificate alleges a weeks-long flurry of final action by El Khalifi, monitored by the FBI and accommodating through an clandestine agent, to ambit out the building, alternation in explosives and arm himself for a suicide attack.

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