Ore. Terror Suspect Indicted

Mohamed Osman Mohamud due in court today
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Nov 29, 2010 4:14 PM CST
Ore. Terror Suspect Indicted
Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19.   ((AP Photo/Multnomah County Sheriff's Office))

A federal grand jury has indicted a Somali-American man in an alleged plot to blow up a car bomb at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Ore. The indictment filed today charges 19-year-old Mohamed Osman Mohamud with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. Mohamud was due in federal court for a hearing at later today. (More Oregon bomb plot stories.)

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