True Crime Tuesday: Khalid Aldawsari’s attempted use of WMD
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In 2012, Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 22, a citizen of Saudi Arabia and student living in Lubbock, Texas, received a life sentence on a federal charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in a bomb-making plot.
Aldawsari was convicted on June 27, 2012, on an indictment charging one count of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction in connection with his purchase of chemicals and equipment necessary to make an improvised explosive device (IED) and his research of potential U.S. targets, including persons and infrastructure. He was lawfully admitted into the United States in 2008 on a student visa and was enrolled at South Plains College near Lubbock.
Doug Kouns, a retired FBI Special Agent, was the team leader for a Special Ops team deployed from Indianapolis to conduct surveillance on the subject. Kouns joins to discuss working on this case.
