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"It is alleged that Abdi, along with admitted al Qaeda operative Faris and other co-conspirators, initiated a plot to blow up a Columbus-area shopping mall," Ashcroft said. "It is also alleged that in pursuit of this plot, Abdi received bomb-making instructions from one of those co-conspirators."