(AP) Jeff Carlton - Hosam Smadi parked a sport-utility vehicle in the garage beneath a Dallas skyscraper, activated a timer connected to what he thought was a bomb, and used a cell phone to try to remotely detonate the explosive he had spent months working to obtain. Smadi, 19, who pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, had hoped the bomb would bring down the 60-story building, kill thousands of office workers and create financial havoc. Instead, he had been supplied with a fake bomb by undercover FBI agents posing as al-Qaeda operatives.
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