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July trial set for suspect in suicide bomb plot at airport

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has scheduled a summer jury trial for the man accused of plotting a suicide bomb attack at a Wichita airport.

U.S. District Judge Monti Belot set a July 8 trial date following a telephone conference Wednesday with attorneys in the case against Terry Loewen.

The former avionics technician was arrested in December 2013 during a sting operation in which undercover FBI agents acted as co-conspirators. Prosecutors allege he tried to bring a van filled with inert explosives onto Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport, now called the Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport.

Loewen has pleaded not guilty to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, attempting to use an explosive device to damage property and attempting to give material support to al-Qaida.

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