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Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/aventura/article75089722.html
Man Who Plotted to Blow Up Florida Synagogue Identified
(Miami Herald) Jay Weaver - James Medina, 40, who told a judge he was also known as "James Muhammad," was accused in Miami federal court on Monday of trying to blow up the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center during services on Friday. An FBI undercover operative had sold him a dummy bomb just before the planned terror attack. One of Medina's associates said Medina originally planned to martyr himself in an attack on the synagogue using an assault rifle, but then the plot shifted to setting off explosives remotely. Medina told an FBI source he had converted to Islam four years ago. He said the planned synagogue attack would inspire other Muslims and said, "I feel like it's my calling," adding he was "comfortable" with killing innocent women and children. Before his arrest, Medina made three videos with his cellphone: In the first, he said, "Aventura, watch your back. ISIS is in the house." In the second, he said, "Today is gonna be a day where Muslims attack America. I'm going to set a bomb in Aventura." In the third, he said goodbye to his family.