An Illinois man indicted on charges of planning grenade attacks on a shopping mall considered an attack on synagogue-goers, authorities alleged. Federal authorities last Friday announced the arrest of Derrick Shareef, 22, alleging he had planned to plant grenades in garbage cans at a shopping mall in Rockford, Ill., about 90 miles west of Chicago.
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