FOX NEWS:
By Mike Levine
Published February 17, 2012
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The U.S. Capitol is seen on Feb. 15, 2012.
Authorities have arrested a man allegedly on his way to the U.S. Capitol for what he thought would be a suicide attack on one of the nation’s most symbolic landmarks, Fox News has learned exclusively.
The man, in his 30s and of Moroccan descent, was nabbed following a lengthy investigation by the FBI, initiated after he expressed interest in conducting an attack. It’s unclear how the FBI learned of his aspirations.
The man thought undercover FBI agents assisting him in his plot were associates of Al Qaeda.
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Shown here is the alley near Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., where a man was arrested on his way, authorities said, to conduct what he thought was a suicide attack on the Capitol.
When he was arrested Friday in Washington, he was carrying with him a vest supposedly packed with explosives, but the material inside was not actually dangerous, Fox News was told.
A short time earlier, he had been praying at a mosque in the Washington area. His destination was Capitol Hill.
The public was never in danger, as he had been under constant surveillance for some time, officials said.
WTD made the following comment below this article and I felt it was worthy of pasting here with the story:
“. . .he had been praying at a mosque in the Washington area”
Pray tell . ..which bastion of Islamic peace would this mosque be?
Dar al-Hijrah in Falls Church VA , you know, dearly departed al-Awlaki’s haunt? . . .or perhaps the nearby Islamic Saudi Academy, from which valedictiorianAhmed Abu Ali, serving a life sentence for conspiring with Al Qaeda to assassinate President Bush, the same institution whose director suppressed report of sexual abuse of a five-year-old child?
“. . .he had been praying at a mosque in the Washington area”
Pray tell . ..which bastion of Islamic peace would this mosque be?
Dar al-Hijrah in Falls Church VA , you know, dearly departed al-Awlaki’s haunt? . . .or perhaps the nearby Islamic Saudi Academy, from which valedictiorian Ahmed Abu Ali, serving a life sentence for conspiring with Al Qaeda to assassinate President Bush, the same institution whose director suppressed report of sexual abuse of a five-year-old child?
“of Moroccan descent” — what PC BS. The was himself a Moroccan, not his grandfather.
Landlord says he reported terror suspect to police
Boston Herald By Associated Press
Friday, February 17, 2012 – Added 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON — A northern Virginia landlord says he thought a Moroccan man arrested in an alleged suicide bombing plot in Washington was suspicious and called police a year and a half ago.
Frank Dynda said today that a woman who leased an apartment in his Arlington building apparently married Amine El Khalifi and then moved out. He says when Dynda told El Khalifi to leave, he said he had a right to stay and threatened to beat Dynda up.
A counterterrorism official says El Khalifi was taken into custody Friday near the U.S. Capitol with an inoperable gun and inert explosives in a suicide vest given to him by the FBI.
Dynda says he thought El Khalifi was making bombs, but police told him to leave the man alone. Dynda had El Khalifi evicted in 2010.
The mosque at which Amine el Khalifi prayed prior to his attempt at detonating his suicide bomb vest is revealed at Long War Journal:
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2012/02/attempted_suicide_at.php#ixzz1mhEUvVi8