Photo by LaTur.Here’s Sundullah Ghilzai’s Facebook profile. Now, I’m not friends with Mr. Ghilzai, so I wasn’t privy to checking out some of the stuff he expressed an interest in on the social networking service until this afternoon. Like hiking. Or that Sundullah Ghilzai was only one of his names, that he had an affinity for AK-47s and that he (allegedly) planned to blow up Metro trains.
As originally reported by Emily Babay in the Examiner over the weekend, and expanded upon by TBD’s Dave Jamieson this afternoon, Ghilzai — real name Awais Younis — was apprehended by FBI agents after they were tipped off about his plots to plant pipe bombs under Metrorail cars; the third and fifth, to be precise, because those cars “had the highest number of commuters on them.”
It appears as if Younis was a little too liberal with this information, however. Someone he was communicating with on the ‘book turned chats with such claims over to the FBI in late November. According to Jamieson, here’s the message that Younis sent that person after he found out about the betrayal:
you are sticking your nose where it doesn’t belong into something bigger then you and I. that is the problem with Americans they cant leave well enough alone until something happends then they sit there wondering why we dropped the twin towers like a bad habit hahaha. im telling you right now you are going to regret doing what you did. for your peace i hope what i am hearing is all lies.
Au contraire: you’d think considering recent developments involving other alleged Virginia-based threats targeting Metro, Younis would have left Facebook chatting “well enough alone.” Younis, who was arrested on December 7, faces a detention hearing on December 21. A complete copy of the court documents with regard to the apprehension are after the jump.