Undercover FBI Agents Give Man Fake Bomb

CREATED Sep. 15, 2012

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CHICAGO - FBI agents have arrested a man they say tried to blow up a bar in downtown Chicago.

Prosecutors have not revealed the name of the bar that was the target.

18-year-old Adel Daoud was arrested Friday night in an undercover operation. Agents pretending to be extremists gave daoud a phony car bomb and arrested him after they say he tried to detonate it.

Daoud is a US citizen and is from the Chicago suburb of Hillside. He's been charged with trying to use a weapon of mass destruction and trying to damage and destroy a building with an explosive.