Man charged with D.C.-area subway bomb plot

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WASHINGTON — A Pakistani-born U.S. citizen was arrested Wednesday on charges of planning bombings at Metrorail stations in the Washington, D.C., area after an FBI sting operation, the Justice Department announced.

"Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn, Va., was arrested today for attempting to assist others whom he believed to be members of al-Qaida," the department said in a statement.

A grand jury returned an indictment against Ahmed on Tuesday, "charging him with attempting to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization, collecting information to assist in planning a terrorist attack on a transit facility, and attempting to provide material support to help carry out multiple bombings," the department added.

If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 50 years in prison.

Instead of real al-Qaida agents, Ahmed was meeting with undercover agents, officials said.

Investigators say that starting in April, Ahmed began meeting with someone he thought was an al-Qaida courier who put him touch with others who asked him if he'd willing to do surveillance of stops on the subway system, known as the Metro.

Court documents say he watched and took picture at four stations, all in Virginia, and made sketches. He suggested putting bombs in rolling suitcases for simultaneous explosions in 2011, the FBI says. The three stations he picked out would help "kill as many military personnel as possible," according to court documents, apparently because of the use of those lines by people going to and from the Pentagon.

"At no time was the public in danger" as "the FBI was aware of Ahmed's activities from before the alleged attempt began and closely monitored his activities until his arrest," the department said.

The department said the indictment laid out this timeline of events:

• On April 18, "Ahmed allegedly drove to a hotel in Dulles, Va., and met with a courier he believed to be affiliated with a terrorist organization who provided Ahmed with a document that provided potential locations at which future meetings could be arranged."
• On or about May 15, "at a hotel in Herndon, Va., Ahmed allegedly agreed to watch and photograph another hotel in Washington, D.C., and a Metrorail station in Arlington, Va., to obtain information about their security and busiest periods."
• On or about July 19, "in a hotel room in Sterling, Va., Ahmed allegedly handed a memory stick containing video images of a Metrorail station in Arlington to an individual whom Ahmed believed to be affiliated with al-Qaida."
• On that same day, "Ahmed allegedly agreed to assess the security of two other Metrorail stations in Arlington as locations of terrorist attacks."
• On or about Sept. 28, "in a hotel room in Herndon, Ahmed handed a USB drive containing images of two Metrorail stations in Arlington to an individual whom Ahmed believed to be affiliated with al-Qaida."
• On or about Sept. 28, "Ahmed provided to an individual whom he believed to be affiliated with al-Qaida diagrams that Ahmed drew of three Metrorail stations in Arlington and provided suggestions as to where explosives should be placed on trains in Metrorail stations in Arlington to kill the most people in simultaneous attacks planned for 2011.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39872773/ns/us_news-security/

[justashooter 430]

stuck in the seventh century, and low on gas...

[Danno 1,228]

Just imagine the carnage, here and all over the western world.... if these Muslims efforts were not stopped so many times.

Some people Complain against Bush and Obamas telephone monitoring programs but one thing is for sure, if not for these actions by the gov..... THe good-will towards Muslims as a whole would be like ZERO.

[Heracles 417]

It's the same situation in Europe, extremists and fanatics exploiting not all do it idiocy and getting into western countries. This is exactly why France is implementing a 10 year period, when citizenship can be rescinded.

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[Saddle Bronc 124]

Note--both Farooque Ahmed and Faisal Shahzad are Pornistanis, who consider their birth-nation's three types of "soldiers" as role-models!

(the three types:

• war-criminals
• war-criminal promoters/protectors
• war-criminals' disciples/toadies

)

[The_Dude 1,142]

Just imagine the carnage, here and all over the western world.... if these Muslims efforts were not stopped so many times.

So this was a concerted effort on the part of Muslims?

[Danno 1,228]

So this was a concerted effort on the part of Muslims?

Danno, on 27 October 2010 - 03:12 PM, said:

Just imagine the carnage, here and all over the western world.... if these Muslims efforts were not stopped so many times.

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Danno, on 27 October 2010 - 03:12 PM, said:

Just imagine the carnage, here and all over the western world.... if these Muslims efforts were not stopped so many times.

Common feature of

1. DC-Subway plot
   
2. Times Square attempted bomber
3. 7/7 bombers

all tied to Pakistan (7/7 bombers were born in Britain, but their parents are/were all Pakistanis), and received training/indoctrination in NWFP/FATA from ISI-linked organisations. ISI, part of Pakistan "military" (which is headed by a former ISI-chief--who was incumbent during 7/7).

Hello!

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All Islamic terrorists must die.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Actually missing from the story is the fact the tipster who got the ball rolling on the FBI sting was a Muslim. Giving validity to the claim, and scoring points in my book, that not every Muslim secretly condones the blood thirsty goals of their Jihadist brethren.

Glad this a$$wipe got ratted out and got caught in a sting!

[The_Dude 1,142]

All Islamic terrorists must die.

Just the Islamic ones? So you're cool with the Catholic ones?

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Just the Islamic ones? So you're cool with the Catholic ones?

re-read my statement

[Sofiyya 1,687]

All Islamic terrorists must die.

There is no such thing as an Islamic terrorist.

[peejay 327]

This is what happens when persons entering the USA are not adequately vetted. The USA wants to have an immigration system, but refuses to invest the necessary funding to manage and run it in a competent manner. Recently there have been allegations that US-CIS is rubber stamping applications and that supervisors are more interested in clearing backlogs than scrutinizing applications in a competent manner. Maybe it is about time to reduce or even eliminate immigration to a level that can be competently managed with the limited resources the politicians are willing to fund. The American people are tired of this sh*t. Why do we need to import people that want to kill us? This is stupid.

Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa who just sent a letter, on October 14th to the Office of the Inspector General to investigate allegations that the adjudications officers of USCIS have been pressured by their bosses to approve applications even when it would appear the aliens were ineligible or that fraud may have been involved!

Here is the link to Senator Grassley's letter (PDF): http://grassley.senate.gov/about/upload/2010-10-14-Letter-to-IG-DHS.pdf