Threats against “soft targets” like buses, shopping centers and restaurants have long been a fact of life in Israel. Now terrorists are trying to bring that brand of terror to the States:
A suspect has been arrested in an alleged terror plot that involves a Chicago shopping mall, sources tell CBS affiliate WBBM-TV.
As WBBM-TV correspondent Mike Flannery reports from outside the courtroom of U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria Valdez, a source tells WBBM-TV that a suspect was arrested in a case with national security implications.
It involves a plot to commit an act of terrorism at a Chicago shopping mall, the source said.
More coming soon.
UPDATE (11:42 am): Drudge reports the suspect is a 22-year-old man who planned to use bombs and guns in the attack.
UPDATE 2 (11:48 am): Allah at Hot Air passes on an ABC brief that the mall is in Rockford, Ill., a city of about 300,000 west of Chicago.
UPDATE 3 (11:55 am): CBS is backing off from the specifics:
Law enforcement officials say the man was a U.S. citizen, and planned to commit some sort of terrorist attack in Chicago. The man had “ideas and desires, but no means,” law enforcement sources said.
A source said earlier that the alleged plot might have involved a shopping mall, but later information did not specify what the target was.
UPDATE 4 (12:18 pm): CNN has a name and some more details on the planned attack:
The man — described as a U.S. citizen named Derrick Shareef — faces charges for allegedly planning to set off hand grenades in garbage cans in malls during the holiday season.
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As it turns out it was a taco stand on some corner, what kind of reporting is this. Rumors are flying which can cause an undue panic. The so-called terrorist can cause just as many problems with rumors than actual fact. Get the facts straight, address it and then report it!!!!!
What kind of reporting is this?? It might turn out to be some taco stand for all the reporters know. The terrorist can cause more problems with rumors than actual fact. With actual fact you can react but with rumors all heck breaks loose.
Sorry about the double posting. My first post was probably intercepted by the terrorist or being read by the government before being allowed to post. This is an example the Dimwits can use to stop the tapping of internet communication.
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Seriously, I’m surprised we don’t see more of this type of terrorism here. I guess Israel is more used to it than us.
I agree. That kind of terrorism, to me, is easier and more effective. The average person can minimize his chances of being killed in a spectacular attack — don’t fly, stay out of big symbolic targets, etc — but we have no way to avoid potential everyday terror.
It really wouldn’t be difficult for one guy to shoot up a mall or a drugstore, set off a bomb in a traffic jam, or poison a salad bar, and yet al-Qaeda still goes for the spectacular attacks.
I bet he was a LUTHERAN!!! Maybe a BAPTIST! Or heaven forbid……. A JEW!!!
Considering the source quoted, this info. didn’t happen to come from a Kinko’s in Abilene, did it?
Read the complaint at thesmokinggun.com to find this poerty, “”I swear by Allah man, I’m down for it too, I’m down for the cause, I’m down to live for the cause and die for the cause, man.”
The mistake the Feds made was in giving this clown dud grenades. I’m down for giving him a live one with it’s pin pulled, man.