Maryland officials believe that they caught a “high-ranking Hamas operative” videotaping the Bay Bridge near Annapolis.

From the AP via WTOP:

Ismael Selim Elbarasse, long suspected by authorities of having financial ties to the Palestinian extremist group, was taken into custody last week and held as a material witness in an unrelated terrorism case in Chicago.

Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich said that there isn’t a specific known threat against the bridge, but nonetheless, it is “a reminder that there is a war going on around the world.”