The FBI’s Drone Bomb

September 29th, 2011

Via: CNN:

A 26-year-old Massachusetts man with a physics degree was arrested and charged Wednesday with plotting an attack on the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol with a remote-controlled model aircraft, authorities said.

Rezwan Ferdaus, a U.S. citizen from Ashland, Massachusetts, planned to use model aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives, authorities said.

As a result of an undercover FBI investigation, Ferdaus, who has a physics degree from Northeastern University in Boston, was charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to al Qaeda for attacks on U.S. soldiers overseas, authorities said.

His federal public defender couldn’t be reached immediately for comment.

A law enforcement official said Ferdaus posed no immediate danger to the public because undercover operatives kept in close contact with him.

2 Responses to “The FBI’s Drone Bomb”

  1. alvinroast says:

    was charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to al Qaeda

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    posed no immediate danger to the public because undercover operatives kept in close contact with him

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    al Qaeda is the FBI

  2. afterhours says:

    I don’t know how many people took the “threat” of hijacked passenger jets raining from the skies seriously, but at least an airliner is BIG. Now we’re brought to our knees by an RC-model enthusiast’s little F-86 Sabre?

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