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Ahmad Suhad Ahmad, of Tucson, Arizona, faces a charge of disseminating information about explosives, destruction devices and weapons of mass destruction for showing FBI partners at Nevada how to build a bomb so that it explodes in Mexico, according to the record.
Ahmad is scheduled for a detention and preliminary hearing at 10:30 am on Friday before judge Eric Markovich, trial judge, at the US District Court of Arizona, according to the record.
"We are looking forward to our day in court," said Walter I. Gonçalves, the public defender representing Ahmad, when he was joined by CNN. "Mr. Ahmad is presumed innocent and we are eager to defend him against the charges."
In December 2016, Ahmad told an FBI source that he had learned how to make bombs using a cell phone during the Iraq war, according to the criminal complaint. In early April 2017, the FBI source asked Ahmad to teach him how to build a car bomb that was to explode in Mexico. Ahmad agreed, according to the document.
Later in the month, Ahmad showed the FBI source images of bomb-making equipment on his mobile phone and what he said were instructions for the manufacture of the bomb in Arabic that he would translate, according to court documents. Ahmad described the necessary equipment and his research on how to build the bomb, finally sending the FBI source instructions in several stages, according to the complaint.
Ahmad traveled with the original FBI source and two FBI infiltrators to build the bomb in Las Vegas as planned, according to court documents.
The group went to a condominium in Las Vegas where, according to authorities, Ahmad built a bomb for several hours. According to the criminal complaint, he then explained to one of the secret agents of the FBI how to make a second bomb and how they worked.
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