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WSJ said:U.S. NEWS | FEBRUARY 24, 2011, 4:02 P.M. ET
By Evan Perez
Federal agents arrested a Saudi student in Texas and charged him with attempting to construct improvised explosives and compiling a list of possible targets, including the home of former President George W. Bush.
Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari is shown in this undated photo
made available by the Lubbock County Sheriff's Office on
Thursday.
Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20 years old, is charged in a federal criminal complaint with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. Mr. Aldawsari is in the U.S. on a 2008 student visa and is enrolled at South Plains College, near Lubbock, Texas.
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have scrambled in recent weeks to determine whether Mr. Aldawsari has links to international terror groups and have found none, according to U.S. officials.
The FBI alleges that electronic surveillance and searches of Mr. Aldawsari's apartment turned up Internet blog postings and a personal journal that expressed his desire for jihad and martyrdom.
He was trying to buy Tri-Nitro-Phenol, and sulfuric acid and according to other news story's, emailed himself notes on how to create the bombs, possible targets like damns, water treatment plants, nuclear plants.
Here's the sealed affidavit which outlines pretty much everything.
More info on the NY Times story... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/us/25terror.html?src=mv