Man Charged in Model Airplane Plot To Bomb Pentagon

garymortimer writes "A 26-year-old Massachusetts man with a physics degree was arrested and charged Wednesday with plotting an attack on the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol with remote-controlled model aircraft, authorities said. Rezwan Ferdaus, a U.S. citizen from Ashland, Massachusetts, planned to use model aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives. As a result of an undercover FBI investigation, Ferdaus, who has a physics degree from Northeastern University in Boston, was charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to al Qaeda for attacks on U.S. soldiers overseas. His federal public defender couldn't be reached immediately for comment."

God dammit

[Dyinobal]

Well shit does this mean I have to get groped before using my RC airplanes? I hope they are willing to at least give me a happy ending if so. I'm tired of them being teases.

Re:Yeah right...

[Anonymous Coward]

You might even say, somebody set up them the bomb.

Re:eh?

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

A clear triumph for America's powers of cultural assimilation! While our barbaric foreign enemies carry out suicide attacks, our beneficent influence induces the local ones to attempt a weaponized UAV program! Heck, one more generation and they'll probably be saving the bombs for use against Planned Parenthood, and exercising their second amendment rights against other targets, just like the good, god-fearing folks at home who are sensible enough to fear the right god...

Re:Rezwan Ferdaus is a moslem

[X0563511]

NEWSFLASH: Fundamentalists are nuts! Story at 11!

Re:I predict

[Anonymous Coward]

This is disturbing to me. I use puffer kites filled with helium and V shaped balsa structures with those stick-up lights (as seen on TV) to make realistic looking UFO hoaxes. Your depth perception really doesn't work well at night and you honestly can't tell how big something is in the sky. Makes for really good stock news footage for the shaky cam folks -- hay, maybe they can even get a buck for it. I'll never tell......good for the economy right?

One of my dreams was to have one I didn't have to tow behind my pontoon boat with hundreds of yards of spider line. Now you're telling me that they want me to file a flight plan if I drop in a couple of Cox .41's and sit at the bar while I fly it around? This is no good.

It's cold at night in the pontoon and the wife bitches endlessly. Even my drunken buddies wimp out when the dew sets in and nobody can tell if it was the dew, or if we were just laughing so hard that we all pissed our pants. Then they don't even want to go back into bar in case there is the mythical "hot chick" that will see that they pissed their pants, and they blew their one chance in life to out punt their kick coverage.

I'd hate to switch to big foot hoaxes.....someone might take a shot at me and it's hunting season again.....