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Awais Younis, a 26-year-old from Arlington, is currently sitting in custody after being indicted in December for allegedly plotting to blow up Metro trains. If you’ll recall, Younis was taken into custody after a Facebook friend he had told about the plans tipped off the FBI. But according to Younis’ lawyer, he’s just a kid who was venting a little bit on the social networking site.

WTOP reports that Frank Salvato believes Younis should be allowed to be released from jail until his trial.

“He is not a real threat,” Salvato says. “I think the government has done a fairly extensive investigation and I have not see any evidence to really back up any claim of a real threat.”

Salvato says Younis represents an isolated case of a college student spouting off on Facebook, and there’s no evidence he had the intent or means to carry out any attack. He says there’s no evidence his client had any explosives.

After all, who doesn’t know a college kid who hasn’t had a rough day or two, only to come back to his Facebook to drop messages explaining “why we dropped the twin towers like a bad habit” and threatening to blow up things in order “to produce the greatest number of casualties“?