Originally Posted by Randomly

For christ sakes... Let me bold the important part.

He did have a connection to civic groups doing planning for schools in Iraq, the official said.

He was an Iraqi citizen much like you are an American citizen. He had plans and outlines of US schools so that he and his group could build Iraqi schools using them as a model.

He didn't want to blow them up. He wanted to build schools in Iraq that looked like them or used similiar teaching methods.