The FBI joist foiled a potentially major terrorist attack plotted against Kansas City, Missouri. The would-be attacker? A self-radicalized Islam-convert from the United States.
A married army veteran has been arrested for plotting an ISIS style attack on Kansas City.
Robert Lorenzo Hester Jr., 25, from Columbia, Missouri, was taken into custody on Friday after meeting up with undercover FBI agents posing as terrorists who he’d been speaking to for months.They began watching him in August 2016 after being tipped off to social media accounts in which he described his hatred of the US and how he’d converted to Islam.
He had allegedly agreed to supply weapons and help organize a Presidents’ Day terror attack at bus and train stations across Kansas City.
Hester, who has two young children, told them how he wanted to ‘overthrow’ the US and ‘hit it hard’, the Justice Department said.
Police say that for months he exchanged text messages with agents describing how he wanted to start ‘global jihad’ and put together an attack ’10 times’ as deadly as the Boston marathon bombings.
On one occasion he had one of the agents round to his family home in Columbia, Missouri, where he gave him a bag full of materials to build a bomb, authorities said.They also showed him rifles in the backs of their cars which they said they were planning to use in the attacks.
He was arrested on Friday afternoon after months of interaction with the undercover agents who said they honed in on him after being alerted to his Facebook posts by an informant.
The threat of radicalization is already tangible in the United States — and that’s without the thousands of Middle Eastern migrants the left hopes to accept. Either way, the FBI has their work cut out for them for the next several years. Hopefully, they remain as successful as they were this week.
Source: Daily Mail
