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First they took away our TESTOR'S glue now it will be our toy planes. Terrorists are constantly coming up with new ways to pervert what was once innocent. :-/
'Toy plane' terror plot grounded
By ANDY SOLTIS
Last Updated: 7:05 AM, September 29, 2011
A 26-year-old Massachusetts man was busted yesterday in a bizarre plot to attack the Pentagon and US Capitol with remote-controlled model planes packed with explosives.
Rezwan Ferdaus, a US citizen, was radicalized by watching jihadist Web sites and planned to kill "enemies of Allah" in an elaborate plot hatched a year ago, according to the Justice Department.
But the collaborators he thought were al Qaeda recruiters turned out to be undercover FBI agents and they arrested him yesterday after he took possession of his arsenal -- including grenades, six AK-47 assault rifles and what he believed were 25 pounds of C-4 explosives.
Ferdaus, a graduate of Northeastern University with a degree in physics, began talking last December with an ex-con about attacking the Pentagon with small "drone airplanes" guided by GPS equipment to "decapitate" the military.
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Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/toy_plane_terror_plot_grounded_O5AlijYKtgK3rNUFPFUR6J#ixzz1ZLU1io6t
'Toy plane' terror plot grounded
By ANDY SOLTIS
Last Updated: 7:05 AM, September 29, 2011
A 26-year-old Massachusetts man was busted yesterday in a bizarre plot to attack the Pentagon and US Capitol with remote-controlled model planes packed with explosives.
Rezwan Ferdaus, a US citizen, was radicalized by watching jihadist Web sites and planned to kill "enemies of Allah" in an elaborate plot hatched a year ago, according to the Justice Department.
But the collaborators he thought were al Qaeda recruiters turned out to be undercover FBI agents and they arrested him yesterday after he took possession of his arsenal -- including grenades, six AK-47 assault rifles and what he believed were 25 pounds of C-4 explosives.
Ferdaus, a graduate of Northeastern University with a degree in physics, began talking last December with an ex-con about attacking the Pentagon with small "drone airplanes" guided by GPS equipment to "decapitate" the military.
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Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/toy_plane_terror_plot_grounded_O5AlijYKtgK3rNUFPFUR6J#ixzz1ZLU1io6t