Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Breaking News: NYCity Terror plot foiled

David Williams, also known as Daoud, was arrested while planting a car bomb in front of a Bronx synagogue



Federal authorities arrested four men on charges of plotting to bomb a synagogue in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and to use antiaircraft missiles to shoot down military planes at a military base in Newburgh, N.Y.

The charges, which include conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in the United States and conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles, represent some of the most significant allegations of domestic terrorism in some time, and come months into a new presidential administration, as President Obama grapples with the question of how to handle detainees at the Guantánamo camp in Cuba.
[New York Times]


UPDATE:

4 Arrested while planting car bombs at Synagogues
-Javier Hernandez & Al Baker

The men were arrested around 9 p.m. after planting what they believed to be bombs in cars outside the Riverdale Temple and the nearby Riverdale Jewish Center, officials said. But the men did not know the bombs, obtained with the help of an informant for the FBI, were fake.

Some of the men were of Arabic descent, and one is of Haitian descent, according to law enforcement officials. At least three were United States citizens, according to officials. They are all Muslim, a law enforcement official said.
[New York Times]
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