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Late Monday night, federal authorities said a man in all black approached a young woman on a Blue Line train, took out an iced tea bottle and poured clear liquid onto the woman’s head. Then he set it on fire.

Lawrence Reed allegedly stood at the front of the train car and watched as the 26-year-old woman, “engulfed in flames,” rolled on the floor of the train car trying to snuff out the blaze.

Prosecutors Wednesday afternoon charged Reed, of Chicago, with a single count of terrorism against a mass transportation system for the apparently unprovoked attack in an unusual 13-page complaint filed in U.S. District Court.

Days before the Blue Line attack, an unidentified person had tried to set Chicago’s city hall on fire . Police suspect that R

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