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Military recruiting center bomb plot suspect indicted

Military recruiting center bomb plot suspect indicted

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A man accused of plotting to kill military recruiters with a car bomb has been by a federal grand jury.

Twenty-one-year-old , also known as Muhammad Hussain, was indicted Tuesday on charges of attempted murder of federal officers and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. He faces a possible life sentence.

A preliminary hearing scheduled for Tuesday was canceled.

The indictment contains no new details about the case against Martinez, who was charged earlier this month in a detailed criminal complaint. The affidavit details how Martinez was caught in an sting operation and given a phony bomb by an informant. He was arrested after he allegedly tried to detonate the phony bomb outside a in .