Dallas Morning News reports that a Jordanian named Hosam Maher Husein Smadi has been arrested for planning to bomb an office tower in Dallas. Smadi is said to have been a supporter of Al-Qaeda and was caught in an FBI sting operation while illegally staying inside the country.

The FBI originally began tracking Smadi when he wrote messages on a radical Islamic website about carrying out attacks on the U.S., and later FBI agents posed as members of Al-Qaeda met with him where he discussed carrying out acts of terrorism.

""I want to destroy ... targets ... everything that helps America on its war on Arabs will be targeted," he told the undercover FBI agents in May.

The sting involved providing Smadi with a truck containing fake explosives to carry out the terrorist attack he discussed.

Smadi was arrested after he parked the truck in front of a Dallas office tower, believing explosives were inside that would be detonated by his cell phone. After he went into another vehicle and called his cell phone, the FBI agents arrested him.

The authorities claim that there is no evidence tying Smadi to other alleged terrorists arrested recently in New York City and Illinois.