Money Laundering, Drug Money Fuel Alleged Jihadi’s Model Airplane Bomb Plot
A Moroccan Jihadist who plotted to turn a radio-controlled model airplane into a drone-like flying bomb and crash it into a school and a Connecticut federal building was arrested Monday by the FBI.
El Mehdi Semlali Fahti told an undercover agent in five recorded conversations that he studied the bomb attack operation for months, and had made a chemical bomb while in high school in Morocco. The recordings additionally claim he could obtain whatever else he needed for his plans in “Southern California on the border.”
Fahti said funding would come from “secret accounts” comprised of money-laundered cash and drug dealing profits…
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