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Florida Man Arrested in ISIS-Inspired Backpack Nail Bomb Plot, FBI Says


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Jul 28 2015

 

 

A Florida man has been charged with plotting to set off a backpack bomb at a beach after becoming inspired by the terrorist group ISIS, federal officials said Tuesday.

 

Harlem Suarez, 23, of Key West — who also called himself Almlak Benitez — was arrested Monday after he received what he thought was a working bomb but which was actually a phony device provided by the FBI, the feds said.

 

"I can go to the beach at night time ... put the thing in the sand ... cover it up ... so next day I just call and the thing is gonna, is gonna make ... a real hard noise from nowhere," Suarez allegedly told a confidential source about his alleged plan to detonate bomb that could be activated by a cell phone, according to a criminal complaint.

 

Suarez is charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction against a person or property within the United States, federal prosecutors said.

 

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By July 19, Suarez had purchased two boxes of nails he wanted to be included in a bomb, but he said he didn't know how to build one or how to get explosives, the FBI said. He paid one of the undercover operatives $100, the FBI says, to build it for him.

 

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A weapon of mass destruction! A Nail Bomb?


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