A terror suspect has been charged in the US with planning attacks on US shopping centres and American soldiers fighting in Iraq.
Tarek Mehanna from Boston is alleged to have had two co-conspirators and sought training in camps abroad.
District Attorney Michael K Loucks has given more details.
He said “It is alleged that there were multiple conversations about obtaining automatic weapons and randomly shooting people in a shopping mall”.
Loucks also said it was “a planned Jihadist activity, apparently inspired by the DC sniper incidents in 2002″.
The DC Snipers were John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo.
During a three-week period in October 2002 Muhammad and accomplice Malvo shot 13 people, killing 10, in the Washington DC area.
Malvo was sentenced to life in prison, while Muhammad is scheduled to be executed November 10th.
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