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| Two Men Charged in Alleged South Florida Bomb Plot |
| 2002-05-18 |
| Two men who allegedly planned to carry out bomb attacks on power stations and a National Guard Armory in South Florida were charged on Friday with conspiracy to damage and destroy property with explosives, justice officials said. A two-count indictment was unsealed on Friday and the two defendants, Pakistani Imran Mandhai, 19, and Shueyb Mossa Jokhan, a 24-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen, appeared before a federal magistrate, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami said in a statement. Prosecutors requested pre-trial detention. How interesting. A Pak and an Arabic-sounding naturalized Merkin. In south Florida. Details were not immediately available on when the men were arrested or when their alleged plot took place. Actually, the news was all over the Rantburg street a month and a half ago. Maybe Reuters should read Rantburg? But the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported on its Web site that one alleged target was a power plant near Fort Lauderdale that Mandhai allegedly sought to bomb in April 2001. The U.S. Attorney's Office said that according to the two-count indictment, the defendants sought out targets in south Florida for missions they allegedly saw as an Islamic holy war, in which they planned to bomb electrical power stations and a National Guard Armory. The indictment said the defendants intended to follow the bombings with a list of demands on the United States government and other governments around the world. Just like back home in Pakland. "It ain't a crime, it's a career path." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Fred: Your comments on this paper about one?Terrorist's Use of Planes as Missiles Predicted by Library of Congress Analyst. |
| Posted by: Mary Wehmeier 2002-05-19 04:54:55 |