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US police arrest teenager who tries to set off car bomb

An 18-year-old has been arrested after he attempted to set off a car bomb outside a bar in Chicago.

Adel Daoud was detained in an undercover operation in which FBI agents provided him with a dummy bomb.

Officers began monitoring the teenager after he posted violent jihadist material online about the killing of Americans.