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NBC News: Man arrested planned suicide bombing at Wichita airport

Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams says a 1 p.m. news conference Friday will address "a major situation for our city that was averted" through a collaborative investigation.

NBC News reported that federal officials arrested a man who planned to detonate a suicide bomb at Wichita's Mid-Continent airport.

U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom and Michael Kaste, special agent in charge of the FBI office in Kansas City, will appear at the news conference in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Wichita to announce charges against a person arrested Friday morning "in a case involving a national security matter," the U.S. Attorney's Office said Friday morning in statement.

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2013/12/13/3176861/wichita-news-conference-set-friday.html#storylink=cpy

Tim Potter

Wichita Eagle

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