
Washington: A 29-year-old Moroccan man who believed he was working with al Qaeda was arrested on Friday near the US Capitol as he was planning to detonate what he thought was a suicide vest that undercover operatives gave him, officials said. Amine El Khalifi of Alexandria, Va, was taken into custody with a gun that didn't work and inert explosives, according to a counterterrorism official. He arrived near the Capitol...

01:45 PM, Feb 18, 2012

Boston: A Massachusetts man was arrested on Wednesday and accused of plotting an assault on the Pentagon and US Capitol using remote-controlled aircraft armed with explosives - the latest of several terrorism cases to spring from federal sting operations. Rezwan Ferdaus was arrested in Framingham after undercover federal agents delivered materials he had allegedly requested, including grenades, six machine guns and what he believed was 24 pounds of C-4 explosive....

08:08 AM, Sep 29, 2011