DALLAS (AP) — A 20-year-old Jordanian man who was caught in an FBI sting trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper is expected to be sentenced.
Hosam Smadi’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for Monday in federal court in Dallas, just blocks away from the 60-story office tower he had targeted.
Smadi pleaded guilty in May to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. It is punishable by life in prison, but if his plea agreement is accepted, Smadi will face 30 years in prison and then deportation.
Smadi acknowledged leaving what he thought was a truck bomb in a garage beneath the Fountain Place building in September 2009. Smadi said he parked the truck, activated a timer connected to the decoy provided by undercover FBI agents, then rode away to watch the explosion.
