A man from Saudi national was arrested in the United States accused of plotting attacks against Texas residence of former President George W. Bush, among other objectives, said Thursday the Justice Department. Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, was arrested last night in Lubbock Texas by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), according to a federal agency.
The young man faces a federal charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, as allegedly bought chemicals and equipment necessary to build an improvised explosive device. In addition, Aldawsari be tried for having investigated several targets to attack them, and have collected information about them in emails that are sent itself.
In one such post, titled "House of the tyrant" ("Tyrant's House"), the young man put the address of the residence of former President George W. Bush in Dallas. Another message contained information about three U.S. soldiers who were stationed for a time in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and another main objectives classified into two categories: hydroelectric dams and nuclear plants.
Aldawsari, a student at a college near Lubbock, maintained, moreover, a newspaper which published "extremist messages" indicating that took years planning an attack and had sought a scholarship to reach U.S. and start a " jihad "or holy war, according to the federal agency. "Now, after mastering the English language, learn to build explosives and continually plan how to attack the infidel Americans, it is time for Jihad," he wrote, according to authorities.
The boy also described a "synopsis of important steps" for his plan, which included obtaining a U.S. birth certificate, rent cars and use several different driving permits for each, to bomb them and take them to targets in rush hour and then leave town. The FBI found the diary in two registries Aldawsari apartment, which was also found that nitric acid and sulfur, probes, cables and watches.
The suspect collected information on how to convert a mobile phone into a remote detonator and how to develop a type of acid which he describes as "a military explosive." In addition, searched the Internet how to use toy dolls to conceal explosives and pondered attacking a nightclub with an explosive hidden in a backpack, according to the indictment.
Aldawsari appear Friday in federal court in Lubbock to hear the charges against him, facing a maximum sentence of life imprisonment and a fine of $ 250,000. 
The young man faces a federal charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, as allegedly bought chemicals and equipment necessary to build an improvised explosive device. In addition, Aldawsari be tried for having investigated several targets to attack them, and have collected information about them in emails that are sent itself.
In one such post, titled "House of the tyrant" ("Tyrant's House"), the young man put the address of the residence of former President George W. Bush in Dallas. Another message contained information about three U.S. soldiers who were stationed for a time in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and another main objectives classified into two categories: hydroelectric dams and nuclear plants.
Aldawsari, a student at a college near Lubbock, maintained, moreover, a newspaper which published "extremist messages" indicating that took years planning an attack and had sought a scholarship to reach U.S. and start a " jihad "or holy war, according to the federal agency. "Now, after mastering the English language, learn to build explosives and continually plan how to attack the infidel Americans, it is time for Jihad," he wrote, according to authorities.
The boy also described a "synopsis of important steps" for his plan, which included obtaining a U.S. birth certificate, rent cars and use several different driving permits for each, to bomb them and take them to targets in rush hour and then leave town. The FBI found the diary in two registries Aldawsari apartment, which was also found that nitric acid and sulfur, probes, cables and watches.
The suspect collected information on how to convert a mobile phone into a remote detonator and how to develop a type of acid which he describes as "a military explosive." In addition, searched the Internet how to use toy dolls to conceal explosives and pondered attacking a nightclub with an explosive hidden in a backpack, according to the indictment.
Aldawsari appear Friday in federal court in Lubbock to hear the charges against him, facing a maximum sentence of life imprisonment and a fine of $ 250,000.
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