A Massachusetts man was arrested Wednesday, and charged with plotting an attack on the Pentagon and the Capitol building using remote-controlled aircraft fitted with explosives.<br/> According to FBI agents, the 26-year-old U.S. citizen had planned to load six-foot-long remote controlled planes with C-4 plastic explosives, and fly them via GPS.<br/> He revealed his plan to undercover agents posing as al-Qaeda operatives, saying he intended to blow the dome of the Capitol "to smithereens".<br/> The air assault was to be followed by a ground attack by six people, including himself, armed with AK-47 assault rifles.<br/> One of the man's neighbors says he's shocked.<br/> (SOUNDBITE) (English) UNIDENTIFIED NEIGHBOR, SAYING:<br/> "I was close to his brother, his parents are vice nice people and I never… it blew me away."<br/> But the plan never went through.<br/> He had no money to buy the planes or the explosives.<br/> The undercover agents provided him with what he thought were explosives, but they turned out to be inert.<br/> Travis Brecher, Reuters
