[PJ] A Miami-area man was arrested last week and charged with distributing materials online showing how to build explosive weapons.
Tayyab Tahir Ismail (33), a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, is facing multiple charges with a maximum sentence of 20 years on each count.
According to a Justice Department press release and an FBI affidavit filed in the case, Ismail posted bomb-making instructions on a mobile messaging application on at least five occasions from July through September of this year. The documents and videos included step-by-step details of building explosive devices that he intended to be used in terrorist activities.
Ismail has a bail hearing on December 26, and a pretrial hearing on January 2.
One video he posted shows a masked figure wearing military fatigues demonstrating how to build a suicide vest. Another video showing how to make a bomb in the kitchen displays an ISIS flag hanging in the background. The FBI said that the instructions posted by Ismail would, in fact, enable operating devices to be built.| The resulting device guaranteed to blow up in the bombmaker’s hands as the final step is completed, but Mr. Ismail wasn’t to know that particular detail. |
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