A 21-year-old man was arrested in Georgia, in the southeastern United States, for attempting to purchase explosives and an anti-tank rocket launcher with the intention of launching an attack on the White House in the United States. name of jihad. Byung Pak, the federal prosecutor in Georgia, announced the arrest of Hasher Taheb late Wednesday evening following a year-long investigation by the Federal Police (FBI). It was launched following information provided by a member of the local community that the young man had "radicalized".
According to the indictment, this Cumming resident attempted to recruit the informant and an undercover FBI agent for his plan to attack the White House and other targets in the federal capital.
He tries to recruit an undercover FBI agent. Initially, Hasher Taheb wanted to be a "martyr" in the name of jihad by going to territory occupied by the Islamic State group in Syria or Iraq, he explained to the informant of the FBI, details the act charge. But arguing the loss of his passport, he had considered better to carry out attacks on American soil. On December 7, he met with the incognito agent and revealed a hand-drawn sketch of the West Wing's "West Wing", which includes the office of the President of the United States. In the following weeks, he detailed the necessary weapons (semi-automatic weapons, grenades and an AT-4 anti-tank rocket launcher) and instructed the undercover federal agent to obtain them.
He wanted the trio to lead joint attacks, stopping Jan. 17 for this "game day," as he had called it. The three protagonists met on Wednesday in a parking lot where the young man took possession of weapons --neutralized beforehand - and was arrested in stride. According to US media, he was formally charged Thursday morning in federal court in Atlanta and his next hearing is scheduled for Jan. 24. Prosecutor Pak assured that no target had actually been threatened by this project.