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A Moroccan man is arrested near the U.S. Capitol Friday wearing a vest he believed was full of al Qaeda-supplied explosives, but posed no threat. In fact, he was the object of an FBI undercover operation.
29-year old Amine El Khalifi, an illegal immigrant who lives in Virginia now faces charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against property owned and used by the United States as well as intending to detonate a bomb and to shoot people.
He faces up to life in prison if convicted.
There have been a number of undercover operations in the Washington, D.C., area in recent years in which suspects thought they were plotting to carry out terrorism attacks, but in reality were being monitored by FBI agents and posed no danger.
Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters
A Moroccan man is arrested near the U.S. Capitol Friday wearing a vest he believed was full of al Qaeda-supplied explosives, but posed no threat. In fact, he was the object of an FBI undercover operation.
29-year old Amine El Khalifi, an illegal immigrant who lives in Virginia now faces charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against property owned and used by the United States as well as intending to detonate a bomb and to shoot people.
He faces up to life in prison if convicted.
There have been a number of undercover operations in the Washington, D.C., area in recent years in which suspects thought they were plotting to carry out terrorism attacks, but in reality were being monitored by FBI agents and posed no danger.
Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters
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