FBI: Tucson Man Charged in Terror Plot Eyed Jewish Community Center

(Tuscon.com/AP) Jacques Billeaud - A Tucson man charged with plotting a terrorist attack on a motor vehicle office in metro Phoenix also expressed to an undercover FBI employee that he wanted to target a Jewish community center in his hometown in a violent attack, a federal agent testified Tuesday at a court hearing. The agent said 18-year-old Mahin Khan wanted to inspire an insurgency in the United States to carry out the sort of attacks that had occurred in Paris and Brussels and had online exchanges with a person believed to be a member of the Islamic State terrorist group.


2016-07-21 00:00:00

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