Hosam Maher Husein Smadi (born June 5, 1990) is a citizen of Jordan who was arrested on suspicion of planning a terrorist bombing of Fountain Place, a building in Dallas, Texas, on September 24, 2009.
[1][2][3] Smadi was in the United States illegally, and unaware he was under continuous surveillance, and that the other members of his "sleeper cell" were all Federal agents.
[2] The agents in his "sleeper cell" had supplied him with inert chemicals, so his bomb had not posed a real threat.
[4] Smadi was provided with a fake bomb by FBI agents posing as members of al-Qaeda.
[1] Under the terms of a plea bargain, an additional charge of bombing a public place was dropped, and a sentence of not more than 30 years was recommended.