Man Claiming To Be At Capitol Riot Wanted To Bomb Amazon Data Center: FBI

Saturday, 10 April 2021Newsdesk

A Texas man who boasted about being on the U.S. Capitol steps during the Jan. 6 insurrection has been arrested by the FBI and accused of planning to detonate a bomb at a data center outside the District of Columbia in the hopes that doing so would cripple not just Internet traffic but also the FBI, CIA and other government agencies, officials said Friday.

New Delhi, 10 April 2021

As per news report of NDTV, Justice Department officials said Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, was arrested Thursday after he allegedly attempted to take material from someone he thought was an illicit supplier of explosives, but who in fact was an FBI agent. Pendley's planned target was an Amazon Web Services building in Ashburn, Va., authorities said.

Source -NDTV