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A suburban Chicago man was sentenced today to 16 years in federal prison for attempting to detonate an explosive device at a bar in downtown Chicago.
ADEL DAOUD, 25, of Hillside, Ill., attempted to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound car bomb at a popular bar in the downtown Loop neighborhood of Chicago on Sept. 14, 2012. Prior to the evening of the planned attack, Daoud had been preaching for violent jihad and expressed an interest in working with operational terrorists. He researched and created a list of potential Chicago-area targets, which included movie theaters, bars and nightclubs, a suburban mall, and military recruiting centers. Unbeknownst to Daoud, the explosive device at the Loop bar was inert and had been constructed by bomb technicians from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Daoud was arrested on the scene after twice attempting to detonate the purported bomb. He has been in federal custody since then.
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The attempted bombing was one of three cases against Daoud to be resolved today as part of the sentencing order. While he was jailed for attempting to detonate the bomb, Daoud in late 2012 solicited his cellmate to have a violent gang member murder an FBI agent who had posed undercover as a terrorist during the investigation. The murder-for-hire plot was not carried out, and the FBI agent was not injured. The third case against Daoud involved a violent assault on a fellow jail inmate in 2015. While incarcerated at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, Daoud attacked an inmate who had drawn what Daoud felt was an insulting picture of the prophet Mohammad.
16 years seems light to me with the amount of damage could have been afflicted.
A suburban Chicago man was sentenced today to 16 years in federal prison for attempting to detonate an explosive device at a bar in downtown Chicago.
ADEL DAOUD, 25, of Hillside, Ill., attempted to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound car bomb at a popular bar in the downtown Loop neighborhood of Chicago on Sept. 14, 2012. Prior to the evening of the planned attack, Daoud had been preaching for violent jihad and expressed an interest in working with operational terrorists. He researched and created a list of potential Chicago-area targets, which included movie theaters, bars and nightclubs, a suburban mall, and military recruiting centers. Unbeknownst to Daoud, the explosive device at the Loop bar was inert and had been constructed by bomb technicians from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Daoud was arrested on the scene after twice attempting to detonate the purported bomb. He has been in federal custody since then.
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The attempted bombing was one of three cases against Daoud to be resolved today as part of the sentencing order. While he was jailed for attempting to detonate the bomb, Daoud in late 2012 solicited his cellmate to have a violent gang member murder an FBI agent who had posed undercover as a terrorist during the investigation. The murder-for-hire plot was not carried out, and the FBI agent was not injured. The third case against Daoud involved a violent assault on a fellow jail inmate in 2015. While incarcerated at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, Daoud attacked an inmate who had drawn what Daoud felt was an insulting picture of the prophet Mohammad.
16 years seems light to me with the amount of damage could have been afflicted.
It's a good thing most of those terrorists are idiots.
There is a readily available US Army manual which details how to make explosive devices which is readily available to the public. Thank goodness they do not care to read it. Unfortunately, Timothy McVeigh probably did read it.
Yup and he's gonna be in his late 30's when he gets out. Still in the wheelhouse to do more damage.
We will have spent around $750,000 on him at that point.
His future crimes are our return on investment or ROI.
Just "tag him" when he is released and he will lead us to his "friends", such that they can be identified and arrested as well.
I guess the liberal quest for "diversity" is not all it is cracked up to be.
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