Nepalis arrested for White House bomb threat in US

Posted by Anup Baral April 16, 2015 :Two Nepalis were arrested in USA for threatening to blow off the White House, an official residence of US President in Washington, D.C, last week. Guru A. Dhimal, 28, of Syracuse, New York; and Bhagirath Koirala, 40, of Columbus, face charges including inducing panic in the case.
Nepal produces 30 thousand tonnes of plastic bags per year (Ghimire, 1999) with a total of between 40 and 50 kilograms of plastic consumed per person per year. Of this, 60 to 70% is used for industrial purposes and 30 to 40% for domestic purposes (Nepal, 2002).

Dhimal had called to 911 from the Greyhound bus en-route to Cleveland from Buffalo on Friday evening and told the dispatcher that he was from Al-Qaeda and they had made a bomb to destroy the White House. “My name is Guru Dhimal. I am from Al-Qaeda”, Dhimal told the 911 dispatcher in a conversation. “I have a major plan. We have made a bomb to destroy the White House.” He also said that the bomb was being taken to Washington, D.C., to destroy the White House. He said that the terrorists were following the bus.