Man Working With Islamic Terrorists Arrested While Attempting to Bomb Wichita Airport

BALTIMORE, Maryland December 13, 2013 - Authorities in Wichita, Kansas today arrested an employee of Mid-Continent Airport on charges that he plotted with foreign Islamic Terrorists to detonate a car bomb at a time and place that would also have killed as many people as possible in the airport.  At a press conference beginning just after 2 pm Eastern Standard Time authorities revealed that the man, said to be 58-years old and "white," was committed to becoming a martyr in a jihad against the United States.  He had been under surveillance for about six months, and authorities had tricked him into purchasing benign material disguised as high-powered explosives.  Today, he attempted to drive a car filled with the fake explosives onto the tarmac at the airport, located in Wichita.  As he did, he was arrested.  He apparently intended to detonate the explosives close enough to the airport to killed scores of people inside and, possibly, on airliners in the vicinity.  Kansas state police, Wichita police and federal authorities cooperated on the case.