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An infiltration operation conducted by the FBI has led to accusations that a Tucson man allegedly constructed an improvised explosive device for what he thought was a car bomb, according to undisclosed court records this week.
Ahmad Suhad Ahmad, a 30-year-old US citizen, was arrested on Friday because he was suspected of having distributed information on explosives, destruction devices, and weapons of mass destruction, a spokesman said. Special FBI agent in a criminal complaint unveiled Monday in US court Tucson.
Ahmad learned to use a cell phone to blow up bombs during the war in Iraq, he told an FBI source in December 2016, according to the complaint. Ahmad told the FBI source that the bombs were "easy to manufacture" and he agreed to "make a car bomb for a target in Mexico."
In April 2017, Ahmad repeatedly met with FBI sources and FBI infiltrators in Tucson to discuss plans to build the bomb, according to the complaint.
On one occasion, Ahmad met an FBI source in a car of the apartment complex where Ahmad was living in Tucson and explained to him the equipment he needed.
Ahmad also sent an FBI source text message containing a "bomb recipe written in Arabic" explaining a "multi-step process for making a landmine or improvised explosive device," said the FBI Special Agent. in the complaint.
Ahmad then traveled with two FBI sources and two undercover agents from Tucson to Las Vegas on April 26, 2017. Ahmad brought a circuit checker, electrical tape, adhesive tubes and tape. other elements necessary for the construction of the bomb. The undercover agents brought other documents requested by Ahmad.
In a condominium in Las Vegas, Ahmad built the device for several hours and explained the process to an undercover agent. According to the complaint, he showed one of the agents "how to connect the detonators and where to place the C-4 explosives," according to the complaint.
Ahmad also explained how to build another bomb and, after building the two gears, how they work.
Ahmad's federal public defender declined to comment. The FBI and the US Attorney's Office referred the Arizona Daily Star to court documents.
In a separate complaint filed by the federal government in November 2017, Ahmad was accused of conspiring to sell heroin to an FBI source in January and February 2017.
A FBI special agent wrote that Ahmad had informed the FBI that he could sell them to heroin. Ahmad then bought 45 grams of heroin from his neighbor, "Pancho," in block 4800 of East Wyoming Street, and sold it to the FBI sources.
The federal drug charge was dismissed on March 19, less than two weeks after Ahmad's incarceration in a state prison as a result of a conviction related to the drug in Pima County. He was released on September 28, according to the records of the Arizona Corrections Department.
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