Man Held On U.S. Terror Charges Targeted Texas Malls - Newspaper

[Purveyor]

Source: Reuters

A Palestinian born in Iraq who entered the United States as a refugee was an Islamic State sympathizer planning to set off bombs at two Houston malls, a federal investigator was quoted as telling a U.S. court on Wednesday.

U.S. investigators began looking into Omar Faraj Saeed Al-Hardan in 2014 and found that he was buying components on eBay to detonate homemade bombs, the Houston Chronicle quoted Herman Wittliff, a Department of Homeland Security special agent, testifying at a federal court hearing.

Al-Hardan, 24, pleaded not guilty at the court in Houston to charges he supplied support to Islamic State and lied to U.S. officials, it reported.

A judge ordered that Al-Hardan be held without bail after prosecutors argued he was a flight risk and a danger to the community, it said.

Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/usa-security-arrests-idINKCN0US01A20160114

[AllyCat]

1. So this guy is a terrorist. Easily labeled such because

...he's not American? And white?

[MosheFeingold]

2. Well the bombs helped

And the plot to blow up shopping malls in the name of ISIS.


Also, last time I checked Arabs are Semites, closest genetic relatives being Jewish people, and we are slightly swarthy, but considered white.