Del Quentin Wilber at the
Washington Post reports on an FBI operation against a would-be-terrorist.
The bomb explosion had been spectacular, sending
shock waves for miles. But Amine El Khalifi, who dreamed of a martyr’s death
with explosives strapped to his chest, seemed unimpressed.
“This is not enough,” Khalifi told two men who he thought were al-Qaeda
operatives after they demonstrated the bomb’s power for him at a West Virginia
quarry on a frigid January afternoon.
The men were undercover FBI agents who had spent months getting close to the
Moroccan immigrant. That morning, on the way to the quarry, Khalifi had told one
of them that he no longer wanted to leave a bomb in a restaurant; he now desired
to die for his cause in a suicide attack that would bring down a symbol of
American democracy: theU.S. Capitol Dome.
You can read the rest of the story via the below link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/inside-an-fbi-anti-terrorist-sting-operation/2012/11/25/0838eee0-2f55-11e2-a30e-5ca76eeec857_story.html
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