Toledo terror plot
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Three men in Toledo, Ohio (Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, and Wassim Mazloum) were charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists in Iraq and engage in violent jihad in their home town, as well as making verbal threats against the President.
The indictment names an informant called "The Trainer" who has a U.S. military background in security.[1]
During the press briefing in Washington DC in the presence of the Deputy Director of the FBI John Pistole, Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales accused the men of educating themselves on how to make and use explosives and suicide bomb vests by downloading videos off the internet, seeking firearm training, conspiring to provide terrorist funds abroad by using Mazloum's car dealership as a cover for traveling to and from Iraq, and making verbal threats against the President of the United States.[2][3]
Amawi was denied bail.[4]
This plot was mentioned as one of three examples of homegrown terrorism in a speech by the director of the FBI Robert Mueller on 23 June 2006 on the morning that the Miami bomb plot to attack the Sears Tower was announced. [5]
The investigation was made with the help of the Toledo Joint Terrorism Task Force.
