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Jordanian National Gets 24 Years in Plot to Blow Up Dallas Skyscraper

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Jordanian national caught in an FBI sting in which he plotted to blow up a Dallas skyscraper in September 2009, was sentenced Tuesday to 24 years in prison. Authorities charged that Hosam Maher Husein Smadi drove a truck containing a fake bomb provided by the FBI to the Fountain Place,…

Dallas Morning News Editorial Praises FBI in Texas Terror Plot

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Fountain Place Skyscraper By Dallas Morning News Editorial Page DALLAS — The FBI depicts Hosam Maher Husein Smadi as a blustering big talker who espoused anti-American jihadist sentiments over the Internet. But the 19-year-old Jordanian became more than an angry loudmouth, the FBI says, when he tried to detonate what he thought was a car…