Breaking News: Man Arrested for Planned Suicide Bombing at Kansas Airport (UPDATED)
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Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams says a 1 p.m. news conference Friday will address “a major situation for our city that was averted” through a collaborative investigation.
NBC News reported that federal officials arrested a man who planned to detonate a suicide bomb at Wichita’s Mid-Continent airport.
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By Louise Boyle and Associated Press.
An aviation technician with extremist Islamic views was charged on Friday after he planned to detonate a car bomb at a Kansas airport.
Terry Lee Loewen, 58, was arrested on Friday morning at Mid-Continent regional airport in Wichita, according to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom, after being thwarted by an undercover FBI investigation.
Grissom said Loewen planned to drive a car that he believed was full of explosives into a terminal at the airport and trigger the device in a suicide mission.
Investigators say Loewen is an avionics technician who lives in Wichita and works at the airport.
Grissom said the 58-year-old spent months developing his plan of driving a car filled with explosives into the airport, triggering the bomb and killing himself.
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