Federal prosecutors say Amine El Khalifi is due in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., for a plea hearing Friday afternoon.
El Khalifi was charged in February following a year-long undercover FBI investigation. He was arrested in a parking lot, wearing what he thought was an explosive-laden suicide vest.
According to court documents, El Khalifi is a native of Morocco who had been living illegally in the U.S. for more than a decade.





