Dallas Police have arrested Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a 19-year-old Jordanian citizen after he allegedly placed a device described as an inactive car bomb near a skyscraper in downtown Dallas. Breaking reports say Smadi was charged with “attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.”
– Updated headline. Device was placed near Fountain Place Skyscraper.
See the Complaint/Warrant Here
FBI Press Release
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 and 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. 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.
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Third charge of “intent to detonate a weapon of mass destruction” in a couple days?
IF… If we had a secure border, this wouldn’t have happened. If the FBI knew that the man was here illegally, why didn’t they arrest and deport him?
Now tens of thousands of tax dollars will be wasted in the prosecution and support of an illegal alien.
Thank you,
Robert Walker
Im sorry your an idiot Mr Walker if they deported him he would just sneak back in with the help of someone who really wanted to harm us and perhaps get the job done I SAY WELL DONE FBI KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!
I work right across the street from fountain place perhaps you dont!!!