Somali charged with plot to blow up US mall

A Somali living in Ohio has been charged with plotting with other al-Qaida operatives to blow up a US shopping mall.

The four count indictment, returned by a grand jury in the state capital, Columbus, charges that Nuradin Abdi, aged 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.