MAIL ONLINE: A Saudi national has been arrested in Texas after plotting to blow up the home of George W Bush.
Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari is said to have come to America and bought chemicals and materials specifically to wage jihad on American soil and kill the former President.
In a case chillingly similar to Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad, who is now serving a life sentence, Aldawsari allegedly planned to place a bomb in heart of New York City during rush hour.
he chemical engineering student also allegedly planned to destroy dams, nuclear power plants and target three former U.S. soldiers who had worked at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Investigators monitoring the 20-year-old found he wrote a string of deranged blog postings demanding he be ‘granted martyrdom’.
It also emerged he had been planning such an attack since he was a child and had got good grades in school and won a scholarship so he could travel abroad to kill.
Aldawsari has been charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and, if convicted, he could face the death penalty. Saudi man arrested for trying to blow up George W. Bush's home came to US as a student specifically to 'wage jihad' >>> Daniel Bates in New York | Thursday, February 24, 2011
