Topic: Rezwan Ferdaus
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Lawyers who defend terror suspects have thankless task. Why do they do it?
The defense team for Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev includes several lawyers experienced in terrorism cases. It takes a certain kind of lawyer, it seems, to represent accused terrorists.
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Model plane plot: Physics grad intent on attacking US 'snake' to plead guilty (+video)
The Massachusetts resident, who planned to use explosive-laden model planes to attack the US Capitol and Pentagon, told undercover FBI agents he hoped to 'severely disrupt … the head and heart of the snake.'
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Mass. man to plead in remote-controlled plane Pentagon bomb plot
Rezwan Ferdaus, a Muslim-American from Ashland with a physics degree from Boston's Northeastern University, was arrested in September after federal employees posing as al-Qaida members delivered weapons he had allegedly requested.
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US Capitol suicide bomb plot foiled: How to catch a 'lone wolf'
The arrest of Amine El Khalifi, a Moroccan man suspected of plotting to blow himself up inside the US Capitol, shows how law enforcement has fine-tuned techniques to stop lone wolf terrorists.
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Foiled suicide bombing of US Capitol: plot is both familiar and strange
Since 9/11, a series of would-be attackers – many of them 'lone wolves' – have been thwarted by undercover agents posing as collaborators. But an attempted suicide bombing is unusual.
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Creator of Revolution Muslim website, inspiration to US jihadis, pleads guilty
Jesse Curtis Morton, who ran RevolutionMuslim.com, admitted to influencing would-be American militants including 'Jihad Jane' and the Pentagon model-plane bomber.
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Good Reads: Model-Plane Bomber, Mass Graves in Kashmir, and Occupy Wall Street
Today's best stories are a close look at the world's disaffected, from a radicalized Boston youth, to the families of disappeared young men in Indian-held Kashmir, to the protesters marching on Wall Street.
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Model plane bomb plot tests US antiterrorism strategy at home
Rezwan Ferdaus, a US citizen and would-be jihadist, is indicted Thursday in connection with a model plane bomb plot to attack the Pentagon and the Capitol. His arrest is the latest example of what authorities warn is home-grown violent extremism.
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