manufactured jihad at pioneer courthouse square
from the oregonian:
The FBI thwarted an attempted terrorist bombing in Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square before the city's annual tree-lighting Friday night, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Oregon.
A Corvallis man, thinking he was going to ignite a bomb, drove a van to the corner of the square at Southwest Yamhill Street and Sixth Avenue and attempted to detonate it.
However, the supposed explosive was a dummy that FBI operatives supplied to him, according to an affidavit in support of a criminal complaint signed Friday night by U.S. Magistrate Judge John V. Acosta.
Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, a Somali-born U.S. citizen, was arrested at 5:42 p.m., 18 minutes before the tree lighting was to occur, on an accusation of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The arrest was the culmination of a long-term undercover operation, during which Mohamud had been monitored for months as his alleged bomb plot developed.
"The device was in fact inert, and the public was never in danger," according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office.
The investigation involved the FBI, Oregon State Police, Portland Police Bureau, Corvallis Police Department and Lincoln County Sheriff's Office.
Mohamud will appear in U.S. District Court in Portland on Monday.
audio update: media monarchy on ground zero w/ clyde lewis
updates: fbi thwarts its own carbomb*
feds plant inert bomb in portland before arresting muslim man*
patsy set-up by feds in christmas tree bombing plot*
fbi apparently set up US teen blamed for fake car bomb*
fire at oregon islamic center attended by osman; no injuries*
video:
oregon mosque attended by bomb plot suspect target of apparent arson*
deputies investigate assault on muslim inmate in portland jail*
video:
friends, defense say teenage portland patsy set-up by fbi*
arrest of former osu student stuns friends*
'christmas tree bomber' in touch with qaeda*
glenn greenwald on the fbi's missing tapes*
fbi celebrates that it prevented fbi's own bomb plot*
paul craig roberts: fabricating terror*
will portland join joint terrorism task force?*
flashback: the portland seven*
thanks to prison planet for helping expose the terronoia!
updates on the portland patsy
firebombing leads to finger-pointing, but not at suspect
from new york times:
It has been nearly eight weeks since someone tossed a Molotov cocktail over the wall of the Governor’s Mansion here, and the Texas Rangers seem no closer to finding the culprit than they did on the day of the fire, which gutted the historic landmark. Indeed, the whole episode is beginning to be an embarrassment to the state police and, more specifically, to the Texas Rangers, who see themselves as something akin to Scotland Yard, except on horseback.
Finger-pointing is rampant. A longtime director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Col. Thomas A. Davis Jr., resigned a week after the fire under heavy criticism from a citizen’s commission that oversees his department. Then officials this week made public an internal state police report showing that security at the mansion - which was unoccupied and undergoing renovations when the fire broke out - was inadequate, to say the least...
“It was really the gang that couldn’t shoot straight,” said Harvey Kronberg, a columnist and the owner of The Quorum Report, an online journal that chronicles the capital’s doings.flashback: strange case of the governor's mansion fire
Cops race to stop Hollywood-area arson car fires* 