ANABELLE GARAY – original article posted September 24, 2009
DALLAS — A 19-year-old Jordanian man living in Texas was arrested Thursday on charges he intended to bomb a downtown Dallas skyscraper, federal officials said.
Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested after placing what he believed to be a car bomb outside the 60-story Fountain Place office tower Thursday, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney’s office in Dallas. The decoy device was given to him by an undercover FBI agent, the statement said.
Smadi is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. Federal officials say the case has no connection with the major terrorism investigation under way in Colorado and New York or the Thursday arrest of a man facing the same charge in Springfield, Illinois.
Court documents do not list an attorney for Smadi. He was in federal custody in Dallas without bond, said Special Agent Mark White, spokesman for the Dallas FBI office. Legal representation is usually addressed at initial court appearances like the one scheduled for Smadi on Friday, White said.
The case is unrelated to that against Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old shuttle driver at the Denver airport also indicted in New York on charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. It was also unrelated to the case against Michael C. Finton, who was accused of planning to bomb the federal courthouse in Springfield, Ill, White said.
White declined to comment on the specifics of the Dallas case.
The FBI kept Smadi, who lived in the small north Texas town of Italy, since and undercover agent discovered him in an online group of extremists, according to an FBI affidavit that did not specify a date.
“He stood out based on his vehement intention to actually conduct terror attacks in the United States,” FBI supervisory special agent Thomas Petrowski wrote in the affidavit.
I call this entrapment. The FBI haded him a dummy bomb, told him what to do with it, and so he did. Bam! Arrested for using a WMD! Ridiculous, they are doing this throughout mosques now, too. They infiltrate and get young people involved – lives ruined.
We are at my post about Dallas and ability to develope plots?
This is from Wiki about Zaza:”The Zazi(Awan) aslo called Awan Qutb Shah and six of his sons accompanied and assisted Mahmud in his early eleventh century conquests of what today forms parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan tori ?and Jhajh settled in Tirah (also spelled Dzadzi, pronounced [dzadzi]) is a Pashtun tribe. Zazi is the plural of Zazai, pronounced [dzadzai]. Zazi is a sub-tribe of Khugyani which falls under the Karlanri tribe of the Pashtuns or the Afghan tribes (Zazi bin Khugyani bin Kuki bin Karlanri). They basically live in the Paktia and Khost provinces of Afghanistan but they have a big population in Kabul city and also in Baghlan province of Afghanistan. Zazi also reside in the Kurram Agency of North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.” Whole tribes are re-settled, moved from home areas.They are nomads and it takes at least 4 generations to have them in Western sense. I am afraid this is why Dallas will go on for a while.