(Target: America) “Conspiracy to Bomb Metro Stations in the Washington DC Area”

On October 27, 2010, Farooque Ahmed, a 34-year old, naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Pakistan, was arrested after a six-month FBI controlled operation for attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization. The FBI became aware of Ahmed after receiving a tip in January 2010 that Ahmed and an unnamed associate were making inquiries about contacting a terrorist organization in order to travel to Afghanistan and/or Pakistan to fight coalition forces. An agent from the Washington, DC FBI field office initiated contact with Ahmed via email, posing as a representative of a terrorist organization, which Ahmed presumed to be al-Qaida. Ahmed agreed to gather intelligence and conduct surveillance on Northern Virginia Metro stations and a hotel in Washington, DC as part of the pre-operational planning for simultaneous bomb attacks he believed would result in multiple deaths and injuries. (Read More)