A 19-year-old Jordanian man living in Texas was arrested Thursday on charges he intended to bomb a downtown Dallas skyscraper, federal officials said.
Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested after placing what he believed to be a car bomb in the garage of the 60-story Fountain Place office tower Thursday, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney’s office in Dallas. The decoy device was given to him by an undercover FBI agent, the statement said.
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