Suicide Bomber @ U.S. Capitol : FOILED

**TheLastBoyScout** · Feb 17 2012, 10:42 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/17/justic...html?hpt=hp_t1

Washington (CNN) -- U.S. Capitol Police and the FBI on Friday arrested a Moroccan man who was planning a suicide attack on the Capitol, police and a federal law-enforcement official said.

The man received what he thought was a vest with explosives, but the materials in the vest had been rendered inoperable by law enforcement, Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said. The man was arrested as soon as he accepted the vest from undercover officers, the federal law-enforcement source said. The man had been closely monitored as part of a lengthy and extensive undercover operation, police said, adding U.S. Capitol Police had been "intimately" involved in the investigation.

The public was never in danger, police said.

The official said the person is not connected to a terrorist organization and was acting alone.

In September last year, a federal grand jury indicted a man for allegedly plotting to use large remote-controlled model airplanes filled with explosives to attack the Capitol and the Pentagon. A man was arrested in September 2008 two blocks from the Capitol after an officer spotted a rifle in his car. And in July 1998, a gunman fired shots in the Capitol building, killing two U.S. Capitol Police officers.

Scary. It sounds like they were tracking him all the way and were even on top of it enough to provide the guy with a phony bomb vest.

I think it shows that our law enforcement is doing a good job and that most would be terrorists are thankfully not super-skilled.

**Cigar** · Feb 17 2012, 10:45 AM

Job Well Done ... Again

**Gator Monroe** · Feb 17 2012, 10:46 AM

Does this mean ?

**RP12** · Feb 17 2012, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by TheLastBoyScout

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/17/justic...html?hpt=hp_t1

Scary. It sounds like they were tracking him all the way and were even on top of it enough to provide the guy with a phony bomb vest.

I think it shows that our law enforcement is doing a good job and that most would be terrorists are thankfully not super-skilled.

Sounds like a patsy to me ~

**TheLastBoyScout** · Feb 17 2012, 10:52 AM

Originally Posted by Gator Monroe

Does this mean ?

It means a guy was planning on blowing up the Capitol building in D.C.

My title might be confusing though.....he never got to the point where he was at the capitol and ready to detonate it. He was caught by police away from the capitol and way before he was ready to do it.