Profiles
Hosam Smadi
| Charge Date: | Thu Sep. 24, 2009 |
| Investigation Type(s): | Agent Provocateur, Informant, Sting |
| Charges: | Weapons of mass destruction |
| Outcome: | Pleaded guilty |
| Convictions: | Weapons of mass destruction |
| State: | Texas |
| Alleged Affiliation: | None |
| Description: | After Smadi was found in an extremist online chatroom, two FBI agents posing as Al Qaeda members provided him with a car he believed was filled with explosives. He drove the car into the underground garage of the 60-story Fountain Place building in Dallas and tried to detonate the phony bomb. He was sentenced to 24 years in prison. |
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