(Chicago Sun-Times) In one of the last moments of freedom Adel Daoud has known, the Hillside man said a prayer as he traveled to Chicago in 2012 to push the detonator on a 1,000-pound car bomb in the Loop that could have killed hundreds of people.
The 18-year-old Daoud sat in the passenger seat of a car beside an undercover FBI agent, and he prayed on Sept. 14, 2012, to “make this our first operation, but not our last one.” Later that day, he would be arrested after pushing the button on the bomb.
More than six years later, Daoud stood in a federal courtroom Wednesday wearing an orange jumpsuit and facing a judge. He said he looks back and “sometimes I laugh at my stupidity.” He said, “I don’t want to kill people or join a terrorist group.”
