February 20, 2012 | Filed under: News | Posted by:
WASHINGTON – Within the last week, authorities say, Amine El Khalifi’s plan was proceeding as hoped: An al-Qaida associate handed him an automatic weapon to kill security officers inside the U.S. Capitol. A bomb-laden vest would detonate the building. He’d die as a martyr. But there was a problem: The explosives were inert, the gun inoperable and the man who provided them was an undercover officer – not, as he thought, an al-Qaida associate, according to court documents. El Khalifi was arrested in a parking garage Friday on his way to carry out an attack the FBI says had been kicked around for months – in apartments, inside a restaurant and at a quarry used for bomb practice…
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