A Somali native living in Ohio has been charged with plotting with other al-Qaida operatives to blow up a Columbus-area shopping mall, according to an indictment unsealed Monday.

The four-count indictment, returned by a Columbus grand jury, charges that Nuradin Abdi, 32, conspired with admitted al-Qaida member Iyman Faris and others to detonate a bomb at the unidentified shopping mall after he obtained military-style training in Ethiopia.

--Dayton Daily News

Faris is the Columbus-based truck driver who had admitted to plotting to cut the cables of the Brookly Bridge. He is now serving a 20 year federal sentence.

Don't be thinking that just because you don't live on the coasts you're safe from terrorism.