FBI: Would-be bomber said he'd die for bin Laden

DALLAS — FBI officials who arrested a Jordanian man plotting to blow up a Dallas skyscraper offer a different portrayal of the apologetic young man who spoke politely to the judge during his two day sentencing hearing.

FBI officials told The Associated Press that 20-year-old Hosam Smadi believed he was committing an act on the scale of the September 11th attacks and would get away with it.

Agent Tom Petrowski says Smadi "intended to die" for Osama bin Laden.

Smadi was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.

The FBI supplied Smadi with a fake truck bomb that he thought would blow up the 60-story Fountain Place building in Dallas.

Smadi was arrested in September 2009.