U.S. Arrests Saudi Student in Bomb Plot (592 hits)
By CHARLIE SAVAGE and SCOTT SHANE
Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, has been charged with planning terrorist attacks inside the United States.
WASHINGTON — A 20-year-old Saudi college student who was arrested Wednesday night on bomb charges in Texas wrote in his journal that he sought a student visa three years ago so he could carry out terrorist attacks inside the United States, according to an F.B.I. document released Thursday.
By the time that the student, Khalid Aldawsari, who attended community college in Lubbock, Tex., came to the attention of the authorities this month, he had obtained two of the three chemicals needed for a bomb and was researching potential targets — including the Dallas residence of former President George W. Bush, the homes of three former military guards at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and dams in Colorado and California, an F.B.I. affidavit said.
Mr. Aldawsari’s journal, which says “it is time for jihad,” and his e-mail account also contained at least two semicryptic references to New York — a plan to spend a week there as part of a to-do list that culminated in leaving car bombs in unidentified places during rush hour and a link to a Web site of feeds from the city’s traffic cameras, the F.B.I. complaint said.
