The FBI announces the arrest of a professed supporter of Al-Qaeda who was planning to target members of the US military and their families with a bomb attack on a July 4 parade in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation says Demetrius Nathaniel Pitts, who also used the name Abdur Raheem Rafeeq, told an undercover agent that he wanted to load up a vehicle with explosives and blow it up during the US national day celebrations on Wednesday.
“His desire: to kill military personnel and their families,” sayd FBI special agent Steve Anthony.
FBI and Justice Department officials said Pitts, a US native with “an extensive criminal history” was arrested yesterday after discussing how to carry out the attack with the undercover agent.
Pitts was charged with attempting to provide support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
— AFP
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