A suburban Chicago man was sentenced Friday to 27 years in federal prison for attempting to detonate an explosive device at a bar in downtown Chicago.
Adel Daoud, 30, of Hillside, Ill., attempted to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound car bomb at a bar in the downtown Loop neighbourhood of Chicago on September 14, 2012. Before the attack, Daoud advocated for violent jihad and expressed an interest in working with operational terrorists.
He researched and created a list of potential Chicago-area targets, which included movie theatres, bars, a suburban Chicago mall, and military recruiting centres. Unbeknownst to Daoud, the explosive device at the Loop bar was inert and had been constructed by the FBI, which was investigating Daoud in an undercover capacity.
Daoud was arrested outside the bar after twice attempting to detonate the purported bomb.
Daoud was originally sentenced in 2019 to 16 years in federal prison. The U.S. Attorney’s Office successfully appealed the original sentence to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which ordered the new sentencing hearing.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly sentenced Daoud to 27 years in prison and ordered that it be followed by a lifetime of court-supervised release.
The new sentence was announced by Morris Pasqual, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Matthew G. Olsen, Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the Justice Department, and Lucas Rothaar, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field Office of the FBI.
The attempted bombing was one of three cases against Daoud to be resolved Friday as part of the new sentencing order. While he was jailed for attempting to detonate the bomb, Daoud solicited his cellmate to arrange for a violent gang member to murder the FBI agent who had worked undercover to investigate Daoud.
The murder-for-hire plot was not carried out, and the FBI agent was not injured. The third case against Daoud involved a violent assault on a fellow jail inmate in 2015. While incarcerated at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, Daoud attacked an inmate who had drawn what Daoud felt was an insulting picture of the prophet Mohammad.
The inmate suffered lacerations on his head and a bite mark on an arm.
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