tarek mehanna

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Tarek Mehanna, 27, was arrested at his house today and charged today with conspiring with two other men to launch terrorist attacks, including a possible attack on a shopping mall with automatic weapons, in plotting that allegedly also involved a Methuen man now in custody for fighting with al-Queda in Somalia.FBI statement.At a press conference this morning, officials said Mehanna and Ahmad Abousamra attempted to obtain automatic weapons from DanielMaldonado, a Methuen man fighting with al-Queda in Somalia.
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They said Mehanna also expressed interest in going abroad to kill American soldiers - and that they apparently gave up their plans to shoot up a shopping mall when Maldonado told the other two the best he could do would be handguns. They were allegedly inspired by the 2002 sniper shootings around Washington, DC, and felt civilians were fair game because they were infidels.Maldonado is serving a ten-year sentence for fighting with al-Queda after being arrested by Kenyan troops in Somalia. Abousamra managed to flee to Syria before he could be arrested for the conspiracy, which officials say began in 2006.In 2008, Mehanna was charged with lying to FBI agents about Daniel Maldonado, a former Methuen resident charged with undergoing al-Queda training. In their complaint (read the complaint), federal prosecutors said Mehanna was in regular contact with Maldonado, despite telling FBI agents he hadn't spoken to him much. Mehanna, a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, was arrested at Logan Airport on his way to a new job in SaudiArabia.Mehanna was out on bail on this earlier charge when arrested today.
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