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Terror suspect married to woman in Texas

09:55 PM CDT on Monday, September 28, 2009

By CRAIG CIVALE / WFAA-TV

ITALY, Texas - An Austin TV station has learned the man accused in an attempt to blow up a downtown Dallas skyscraper was married to a woman in Italy, Texas last year.

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Hosam Maher Husein Smadi is charged with attempting to "use a weapon of mass destruction" to blow up a Dallas skyscraper.

Hosam Maher Smadi, 19, was arrested after FBI said he drove what he thought was a truck full of explosives into a garage underneath Fountain Plaza last week. He is now in a Seagoville Jail facing terrorism charges.

Working at the Shell Texas Best Smokehouse located off Interstate 35E in Italy, the Jordanian citizen was living in the United States illegally. However, an Austin station has learned he married Rosalinda Duron last year. Both worked together at the gas station.

A marriage certificate states that the couple married on July 16, 2008 by a justice of the peace in Ellis County.

"He offered her $5,000 to marry him and she said no," said Gennro Duron, Rosalinda's grandfather. "She said, 'Give me $10,000.' I don't know what happened after that."

Just 18 at the time, Duron tried to convince her father to agree to the nuptials, her grandfather said.

"She said, 'Daddy, this man wants to marry me,'" he said. "And my son said, 'No. Don't marry nobody, not him.'"

Mr. Duron said Smadi wanted to marry his granddaughter so he could be legal in America.

There are no records that show a divorce ever occurred.