Md. Man planned to run down crowds at National Harbor- ISIL inspired

[Peter1469]

Md. Man planned to run down crowds at National Harbor- ISIL inspired

This is fairly close to me. Good detective work on the part of the police.

Federal authorities have arrested a Maryland man they say planned to plow a stolen U-Haul van into crowds at National Harbor, a large shopping and entertainment compound outside of Washington, as part of an Islamic State-inspired plot, court documents say.

Rondell Henry, 28, of Germantown was arrested March 28 at the waterfront complex in Prince George’s County with a U-Haul he had stolen from a parking garage in Alexandria, Va., two days earlier, according to a newly unsealed charging document.


Henry harbored “hatred” for “disbelievers” who didn’t practice Islam and admitted to the plot in interviews with authorities, according to court documents filed in U.S. District Court for Maryland asking that he be detained in jail until trial.


Before he arrived at the Maryland complex, he spent nearly two hours at Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia on March 27 assessing crowds there but finding too few people for the scale of attack he envisioned, court documents contend.
Henry is charged with transporting a stolen vehicle but no terrorism-related counts. Prosecutors detailed the terrorism-related accusations Monday in their detention memo.

[nathanbforrest45]

Obviously we need to ban U-Haul trucks. Wasn't the Oklahoma City bombing carried out in a U-Haul truck? We need to ban them before they fall into the hands of children or the Amish

[Peter1469]

Obviously we need to ban U-Haul trucks. Wasn't the Oklahoma City bombing carried out in a U-Haul truck? We need to ban them before they fall into the hands of children or the Amish

Yes the truck outside of the building that had a crude fertilizer bomb was a U-Hall.