Authorities say Smadi parked a truck he thought contained a bomb in the garage beneath the 60-story Fountain Place office building in downtown Dallas. Later, authorities say, he dialed a cell phone he thought would ignite a blast.
The device was actually a decoy provided by FBI employees posing as al-Qaida operatives. The FBI says it had been keeping tabs on Smadi since an undercover language analyst discovered him in an online extremists group.
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