The Christmas Tree Bomber
November 28th, 2010Here’s another one for your already bulging Oh for F*ck’s Sake file folder.
Via: AP:
The teenager accused of attempting to bomb a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Ore., was acting on his own initiative and not at the direction of any foreign terrorist organization, a law enforcement official said Saturday.
Mohamed Osman Mohamud hatched the plan on his own to use a cell phone to detonate what he believed was an explosive-filled van at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony Friday, according to the official, who wasn’t authorized to discuss the case publicly and spoke on a condition of anonymity.
The official said Mohamud was very committed to the plot and alone planned the details, including where to park the van for the maximum number of casualties. Authorities say Mohamud sent bomb components to undercover FBI agents who he believed were assembling the explosive device, but the agents supplied a fake that Mohamud tried to detonate twice via his phone.
The official said agents began investigating Mohamud after receiving a tip from someone who was concerned about the teenager. The official declined to provide any more detail about the relationship between Mohamud and that source.
The FBI monitored Mohamud’s e-mail. They found that he was in e-mail contact with people overseas and was asking how he could travel to Pakistan and join the fight for jihad, according to an FBI affidavit.
Mohamud, a student at Oregon State University, e-mailed a friend living in Pakistan who had been a student in Oregon in 2007-2008, according to the official. The FBI’s affidavit says the friend in Pakistan referred him to another associate, but gave him an invalid e-mail address that Mohamud tried repeatedly to use unsuccessfully. The official said FBI agents saw that as an opportunity and e-mailed Mohamud in response, claiming to be associates of his friend, the former student.
Yep, it’s clear. He wasn’t working under the direction of any Foreign Terrorist organization, he was working under the direction of a Domestic Terrorist organization. Which according to the above article is reportedly the FBI.
Given the FBI’s history, we’re lucky they didn’t provide him with a real bomb like they did for the first World Trade Center attack.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6DF1138F93BA15753C1A965958260
As usual, corrupt and inept FBI agents cannot seem to apprehend the real terrorists so now they induce a stupid, impressionable young Muslim to involve himself in the FBI’s own terrorist plot. Yes, the fool will probably get life imprisonment while the real Al Qaida and Saudi-backed terrorists sit back and laugh.
Saw this today: Arson at mosque linked to Portland bomb suspect.
I thought this was just the run of the mill hate retaliation but then this caught my eye:”Yosof Wanly, imam at the Salman Al-Farisi Islamic Center, said 80 percent of the center’s office was burned, but the worship areas were untouched.”
You can draw your own conclusions with that one.
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In BREAKING NEWS: GRINCH ARRESTED.