Terror Plot to Blow Up Federal Courthouse in Springfield is Foiled


	Terror Plot to Blow Up Federal Courthouse in Springfield is Foiled

merrie

9-25-2009 6:15 AM

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charged with plot to blow up the paul findley fede, man uses alias talib islam

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Federal authorities say they caught on to Finton early in his planning process when he contacted a federal informant and asked how he could become a fighter for the jihad.

They say Finton also wrote a letter to John Walker Lindh, the California man who went to Afghanistan to fight with the Taliban.

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