Muslim Man Arrested in Military Recruitment Bomb Plot

Authorities Make Arrest in Alleged Plot to
Blow Up Military Recruitment Center

by Mike Levine and the Associated Press

A man was arrested Wednesday for plotting to blow up a military recruitment center in the Baltimore area.

Antonio Martinez, a Muslim convert who called himself Muhammed Hussain, was arrested and is expected to appear later Wednesday in federal court. Martinez, a U.S. citizen, was caught in a sting operation as he tried to detonate a phony bomb at an Armed Forces recruiting station in Catonsville, just outside Baltimore.

"A Baltimore man has been arrested this morning in connection with a scheme to attack an Armed Forces recruiting station in Catonsville, Maryland, with what he believed to be vehicle bomb," U.S. Department of Justice spokesman Dean Boyd said in a statement sent to Fox News. "There was no actual danger to the public as the explosives were inert and the suspect had been carefully monitored by law enforcement for months."

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