Man planning attack near DC ‘inspired by Daesh’: US

WASHINGTON (AA)  A Maryland man was charged Monday for stealing a van, which he allegedly planned to drive into a crowd of pedestrians in a Daesh-inspired attack. Rondell Henry, 28, of Germantown was charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland for stealing a U-Haul van in Alexandria, Virginia, before driving it to Dulles International Airport in the same state. Henry allegedly claimed to have been inspired by the Daesh terror group, according to a detention memo from the US government. The memo said Henry tried to enter the airport and breach security.

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