Iraqi Refugees Plot to Aid al-Qaeda

Jessica Zuckerman / June 02, 2011

Last week, Waad Ramadan Alwan and his cousin Mohanad Shareef Hammadi were arrested in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The men, both Iraqi refugees, had been allegedly picking up machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades from a nearby storage facility and delivering them to be shipped to al-Qaeda.

It seems that the men never had any plans to attack targets in the United States, keeping them from being added to the ranks of the 39 publically known terrorist plots against the United States since 9/11. However, the incident does serve as a chilling reminder of the fact that al-Qaeda continues to maintain operational capability and remains a threat the United States. (more…)