A 26-year-old US citizen has been arrested for plotting to attack thePentagon and the Capitol building with a large remote-controlled aircraft filled with explosives.
Rezwan Ferdaus, the Northeastern University physics graduate, has also been charged with attempting to supply materials to Al-Qaeda and aid attacks on US soldiers.
Ferdaus was arrested in Boston following an undercover investigation by the FBI, the BBC reports.
Authorities said he designed and supplied undercover operatives with a total of eight mobile phone detonators intended to be used by Al-Qaeda operatives to set off bombs in the Middle East.
During a June 2011 meeting, Ferdaus was told that his first phone detonation device had killed three US soldiers and injured four or five others in Iraq.
According to the report, Ferdaus then began speaking to the agents about his desire to organise anattack on the Pentagon, home of the US military, and the Capitol building in Washington DC.
Posing as accomplices, they then supplied him with C-4 explosives, a remote-controlled plane and arms.
The FBI said Ferdaus was arrested on Wednesday immediately after putting the newly delivered weapons in a storage container.
If convicted, Ferdaus could face up to 15 years in jail for providing support and resources to a foreign terrorist organisation and up to 20 years in prison for attempting to destroy national defence premises, the report said.
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