at sandy hook elementary school one year ago today. a vigil was held last night in nearby hamden, connecticut to remember the lives taken. this morning several places in newtown will ring bells 26 times one for each of the victims. the white house will also on or about a moment of silence. a terror plot foiled in the heartland. 58-year-old terry lowen arrested and charged for planning to blow up the wichita airport. his apparent inspiration? usama bin laden and anwar al-awlaki. the fbi says lowen worked as aviation technician for the airport and he planned on using his employee access card to load a car with explosives and leave it at a terminal. he planned to pull the trigger on the explosives himself and die in the explosion as a martyr. mr. lowen studied the layout of the airport and took photographs of various access points. researched to find out when there would be maximum number of individuals at the airport. this is a guy who has made violent terrorist threats in the past,
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wichita airport. justice correspondent pete williams joins us now. what can you tell us? he never got anywhere close to doing that. this is one of those operations where the fbi got wind of what he was up to very early on and from that moment on had him under constant surveillance. ty name terry lowen. worked as an af yonices technician and he had a badge that allowed him access to parking areas and get his car into parts of the airport with a public would normally be able to get. and according to the fbi after some period of time he came up with the idea of filling his car full of explosives and setting off a suicide car bomb attack. but he never actually built a bomb. he thought he had. he thought he had explosives that were given to him by
this is terry lowen, a practices muslim, working a wichita airport, which authorities say he wanted to blow up, and he s charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, a car bomb, and attempting to buyer material support to terrorism. according to according documents, they say lowen allegedly had an online chat with someone, and he said he wanted to engage in violent jihad on behalf of al qaeda. what he didn t know is he was chatting online with an fbi employ employee. the employee offered to introduce him to someone who would help him, and the documents describe fbi employees number one and number two, who later pretended ton an alleged accomplice as part of a sting operation. they nabbed him when he tried to enter the airport with a security pass. they were not active, because they had been provided by the agents. the so-called aspirational terror cases have been a bit controversial lately, because