That and many other details are below in the U.S. Attorney Office's press release, via the Dallas Observer, September 24:
DALLAS -- James T. Jacks, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, and Robert E. Casey, Jr., Special Agent in Charge for the Dallas Office of the FBI, announced today that Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, 19, has been arrested anad charged in a federal criminal complaint with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. Smadi, who was under continuous surveillance by the FBI, was arrested today near Fountain Place, a 60-story glass office tower located at 1445 Ross Avenue in downtown Dallas, after he placed an inert/inactive car bomb at the location. Smadi, a Jordanian citizen in the U.S. illegally, lived and worked in Italy, Texas, (approximately 45 miles south of Dallas). He has repeatedly espoused his desire to commit violent Jihad and has been the focus of an undercover FBI investigation.
"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 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. 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," Jacks continued.
Special Agent in Charge Casey said, "Today's arrest of Hosam Maher Husein Smadi underscores the FBI's unwavering commitment to bring to justice persons who attempt to bring harm to citizens of this country and significant danger to this community. Smadi made a decision to act to commit a significant conspicuous act of violence under his banner of "self Jihad." He will now face justice. The many agents, detectives, analysts and prosecutors who helped to bring about Thursday's arrest deserve special thanks for their efforts. This case serves as a reminder of the continuing threats of terrorism we face as a nation and the FBI's resolve to meet those threats. The arrest of Smadi is not in any way related to the ongoing terror investigation in New York and Colorado."
"The criminal complaint alleges that Hosam Smadi sought and attempted to bomb the Fountain Place office tower, but a coordinated undercover law enforcement action was able to thwart his efforts and ensure no one was harmed," said David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security.
Smadi will make his initial appearance tomorrow in U.S. District Court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Irma C. Ramirez, at 11:00 a.m.
According to affidavits filed today with the complaint and search warrants:Smadi was discovered by the FBI espousing his desire to commit significant acts of violence. Smadi stood out because of his vehement intention to actually conduct terror attacks in the U.S.The FBI developed an investigative plan to determine Smadi's true intent while also protecting the public's safety. Smadi made clear his intention to serve as a soldier for Usama Bin Laden and al-Qa'ida, and to conduct violent Jihad. Undercover FBI agents, posing as members of an al-Qa'ida "sleeper" cell, were introduced to Smadi, who repeatedly indicated to them that he came to the U.S. for the specific purpose of committing "Jihad for the sake of God." Smadi clarified that he was interested in "self-Jihad," because it was "the best type of Jiihad." Smadi was interested in violent Jihad against those he deemed to be enemies of Islam. The investigation determined Smadi was not associated with other terrorist organizations.Throughout the investigation, undercover FBI agents repeatedly encouraged Smadi to reevaluate his interpretation of Jihad, counseling him that the obligations a Moslem has to perform Jihad can be satisfied in many ways. Every time this interaction occurred, Smadi aggressively responded that he was going to commit significant, conspicuous acts of violence as his Jihad.In June 2009, Smadi identified potential targets in the Dallas area; but in mid-July, he notified an undercover FBI agent that he had changed his mind regarding the targets. On July 21, 2009, Smadi met with an undercover FBI agent and directed the agent to drive them to a Wells Fargo Bank in downtown Dallas. Smadi and the undercover FBI agent then drove to 1445 Ross Avenue where the Fountain Place office tower is located. A Wells Fargo Bank is located in that building. Smadi went into the building where he conducted his own reconnaissance.In late August 2009, while meeting with one of the undercover FBI agents in Dallas, Smadi discussed the logistics and timing of the bombing, stating that he would have preferred to do the attack on "11 September," but decided to wait until after the month of Ramadan, which ended on September 20, 2009. At the conclusion of the meeting, Smadi decided that a vehicle borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) would be placed at the foundation of the Fountain Place office tower. Unbeknownst to Smadi, the FBI ensured the VBIED contained only an inert/inactive explosive device which contained no explosive materials.
i wounder if some of the islamist groups in the usa masquerading as muslim civil rights groups are guing to jump on this claiming that it was only fire works for halloween
From article: Smadi stood out because of his vehement intention to actually conduct terror attacks in the U.S.
This guy does not know how to keep his mouth shut...stupid...
Seems to be common with self-jihadists...
Jordanian bomber was in U.S. illegally" what the heck Obama and his cohorts will give them all amnesty soon , more illegals in the US now.. Obama will solve the problem.
"Smadi was discovered by the FBI espousing his desire to commit significant acts of violence. Smadi stood out because of his vehement intention to actually conduct terror attacks in the U.S."
Thank you PATRIOT ACT.
"Throughout the investigation, undercover FBI agents repeatedly encouraged Smadi to reevaluate his interpretation of Jihad, counseling him that the obligations a Moslem has to perform Jihad can be satisfied in many ways. Every time this interaction occurred, Smadi aggressively responded that he was going to commit significant, conspicuous acts of violence as his Jihad."
Apparently those other ways were just not good enough. How do non-Muslims think, now that the farce of minimizing or misinterpreting the duty of Jihad has had to be abandoned by the apologists, that they will be able to convince Muslims that Jihad is always and everywhere to be undertaken peacefully, and not through violence"?
And how do non-Muslims think, too, that they are safer if they pretend that the goal of those who fulfill their duty to participate directly or indirectly in Jihad is somehow different from those who conduct violent Jihad?
The goal remains the same: the struggle or Jihad to remove all obstacles to the spread and then the dominance of Islam, so that Islam everywhere dominates, and Muslims rule, everywhere.
Anyone else hear from the media the bit and bites stating there is "No connection" between all these plots?
Not one of these followers of Islam have any connection to each other, at all.
From the article:
"Smadi, a Jordanian citizen in the U.S. illegally...".
This should, of course, read, 'Smadi, an Arab Muslim citizen of Jordan, in the US illegally".
Now. Suppose there had been a clean sweep of all illegal immigrants - or even just of all MUSLIM illegal immigrants - months, or years ago.
The FBI's time would not have had to be tediously and expensively spent identifying this person, duping him, and neutralising his wicked scheme.
Because he would have been out on his a**, and back home in dar al Islam, making trouble for the Muslim boss of Jordan, or of some other Islamic country, instead.
Identifying and removing all MUSLIM illegal immigrants from the USA and Canada and indeed from all other non-Muslim lands, on the grounds that others among them may well be intending what this person undoubtedly intended, would be only prudent. And it would considerably reduce the Mohammedan population of the non-Muslim lands.
Thanks again, to the Federal Bureau of Investigations undercover officers who put their lives on the front lines to protect the innocents. Their bravery will not be forgotten.
So here we go again...
"a Jordanian citizen in the U.S. illegally, lived and worked in Italy, Texas".
I wonder how many of his neighbors and fellow employees knew what he was up to? They probably figured he was an okay kind of guy, quiet, unassuming, you know the type...a moderate Muslim that loves peace and wouldn't hurt a fly.
Nope, but as they found out, he'd kill lots of people for his Jihadist cause!
I wonder what's going through their minds right now?
I'm sure it won't be something like "Gee, Smadi sure is gonna' be missed 'round here!"
When are people going to hold our politicians accountable for all this illegal immigration? By not holding our politicians accountable, people are inviting foreigners like this bomber to come in and bomb us. As long as we don't hold our politicians accountable, they don't care if we all die because they will take our vote from our grave. We need to vote these pro illegal immigration bast---s out.
CAIR's response:
Clearly the inert/inactive car bomb was given to Smadi by the FBI.The FBI are masterminds behind this latest terrorist attempt. Thus, the FBI is the real terrorist here, who brain-washed Smadi with the help of the CIA's MK ULTRA program which the American government claims no longer exists, but Allah knows best, it still does. In closing, Smadi was a moderate secular peaceful muslim before the FBI with the CIA's help turned him into a manchurian candidate inorder to purposely catch him in the act and discredit islam as a inherently violent terrorist promoting religion. We aim to fight these dubious diabolical infidel charges via pleading America causes muslism insanity.
Sincerely,
Islam's NO.1 Apologist, Ibrahim Hooper.
"A Jordanian citizen"?
The Arabs, who never stop talking about all the "Palestinians" in Jordan (and how every different, we are supposed to believe, how easily distinguishable from, are those Western Palestinian Eastern Palestinians (the "Palestinians") from those Eastern Palestinian Eastern Palestinians, that is the "Palestinians"), become strangely silent when someone -- a "Palestinian" from Jordan -- is found to have committed a crime or crimes or to be accused of a crime. Then they are very quiet, and no one from the Arab League, not an Arab in sight, announces: hey, he's a "Palestinian."
Remember Sirhan Sirhan? He was always called a "Jordanian" though he called himself a "Palestinian" and his motives were to kill Robert Kennedy as being too friendly to Israel (perhaps he even read Kennedy's dispatches from Israel in 1948, though so few have).
Remember Al-Zarqawi? He was the "Jordanian" and we heard so little about his origins in the "Palestinian" "refugee" "camp" (yes, even if you hate quotation marks, as I do, for this purpose, here they are called for to signal sketpicism about the noun and both of its adjectives) of Al-Zarqa.
And now we have Smadi, carefully described as a "Jordanian citizen." As if that matters, when it comes to the Jihad, what particular country a Muslim and especially an Arab Muslim comes from. But since Yassir Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas and Jimmy Carter are always invoking that word "Palestinian" -- let's be sure to use it when it may especially apply.
Start with Sirhan Sirhan, Al-Zarqawi, and now Smadi.
Am I missing something here ? The article states that he was under "continuous surveillance" and that he was "in the U.S. illegally". So, if they knew where he was at all times and they knew he was here illegally, WTF was he still doing here ? He should have been arrested and deported long before things got to this point. Is there some law or rule against deporting people whose whereabouts are known and whose illegal status is known ?
I'm wondering if Smadi attended or attends abdullah mikhail's mosque in Dallas.
mikey: Is he one of yours?
The arrest of Smadi is not in any way related to the ongoing terror investigation in New York and Colorado.
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Well, yes--except this means we have several--at base--unrelated groups of free-lance Muslim Jihadists, intent on murdering Infidels and blowing up their fine buildings and transit systems.
And, going deeper, of course these incidents are related--all of these suspects are devoted followers of Islam and the Jihad ideology.
PCisBS wrote:
"Am I missing something here? The article states that he was under "continuous surveillance" and that he was "in the U.S. illegally". So, if they knew where he was at all times and they knew he was here illegally, WTF was he still doing here? He should have been arrested and deported long before things got to this point.
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I think this is legitimate. If the FBI learns of a possible terrorist plot, they have to investigate, and the surest way is to follow the suspects they are already familiar with.
What if they had summarily arrested Smadi and deported him, and then it turned out that there were other members of the terrorist cell--whom the FBI would never have learned about--who might have carried out the bombing on Fountain Place, or some other target?
I think the FBI did the right thing in this case. Hobbled as they have been, they have done a great deal to keep us safe.
del - funny you should say that. I was kind of wondering the same thing.
A. M. is wont to boast, at times, about how many Mohammedans there are in Texas, and how they are multiplying and increasing, and how wonderful they all are....I wonder whether he'll turn up on this thread, to throw Smadi under the bus?
"...the FBI's unwavering commitment to bring to justice persons who attempt to bring harm to citizens of this country..."
"The arrest of Smadi is not in any way related to the ongoing terror investigation in New York and Colorado."
No, the FBI is not conducting consolidated actions on all the recent terrorism conspiracies. But it is coordinating separate investigations that may diminish its capabilities. The US must have sworn officials who will enable the FBI, CIA et al. to protect us against enemies foreign and domestic.
Do the Democrats in the House, Senate or 'anyone home?' in the White House not see the 'religion of peace' as supporting cast in this 3-Act play? Will the 50,000 moslems this Sunday decry these acts of terrorism, or denounce the discrimination against 'misunderstanders' of their faith?
pulsar182: Your sentiment, IMHO, speaks for millions...
People, read this Muslim-appeasing column from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and weep:
http://www.star-telegram.com/dallas_news/story/1637300.html?mi_pluck_action=comment_submitted&qwxq=7948377