By NBC News
The French national charged Wednesday with plotting a terrorist attack had an arsenal in his apartment.
In the apartment Reda Kriket rented in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil, police found some of the standard tools of terror — a cache of assault rifles and handguns, five stolen French passports, seven cell phones still in their packaging, and a single tear gas bomb, prosecutors said.
They also confiscated Tupperware containing 500 grams of the powerful explosive TATP, more than a kilo of industrial explosives, detonators and other electronics, they said.
More ominously, they found acetone and other chemicals, along with four cartons containing. . .
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