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Holy crap!
The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday arrested a person suspected of plotting to explode a bomb in New York, a source familiar with the situation said.
The FBI’s Acting Assistant Director Mary Galligan also released the following statement on the attempted bombing:
“Attempting to destroy a landmark building and kill or maim untold numbers of innocent bystanders is about as serious as the imagination can conjure. The defendant faces appropriately severe consequences. It is important to emphasize that the public was never at risk in this case, because two of the defendant’s ‘accomplices’ were actually an FBI source and an FBI undercover agent. The FBI continues to place the highest priority on preventing acts of terrorism.”
The identity of the man arrested in the bomb plot has been identified as 21-year-old Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis.
Rick Leventhal provided more details about the suspect, who is a Bangladeshi national who traveled to the U.S. in January for the sole purpose of carrying out a terrorist attack. He raised red flags after he posted comments about jihad online. In trying to recruit others to form a terror cell in the U.S., the suspect came across an undercover FBI agent who the suspect believed was someone who also wanted to commit a terrorist act. The undercover agent provided him with twenty 50-pound bags of what was supposed to be explosive material. This morning, they put that 1,000 pounds of material in a van and drove to the Federal Reserve Bank. The suspect then tried to detonate the “bomb,” which was of course fake.
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/10/17/fbi-arrests-person-in-new-york-bomb-plot/
Rust_shackleford
10-17-2012, 14:32
Soon we'll find out that the FBI as SOP all but entrapped another idiot.
More like FBI agents knew a guy that wanted to do something, provided him with the encouragement and resources, and then arrested him once he got everything set up.
Scanker19
10-17-2012, 14:43
Good to see Die Hard finally made it their way.
http://i.imgur.com/NlOrF.jpg
Mighty fine red x there Ridge... [LOL]
clublights
10-17-2012, 14:45
Mighty fine red x there Ridge... [LOL]
Blue question mark for us Mac heads LOL
call me tinfoil but now every time I see a story like this, Bomb plot thwarted!, I think yeah right.
Just another case of finding someone online, giving them the idea, encouraging them, supply them, then arrest them. Yeah good job stopping a real threat there.
For every 5 people in a plot like this there is 3 federal agents, 1 undercover reporter and 1 nutjob who didn't have any idea how to or means to accomplish his mission until the aforementioned showed up.
For every 5 people in a plot like this there is 3 federal agents, 1 undercover reporter and 1 nutjob who didn't have any idea how to or means to accomplish his mission until the aforementioned showed up.
Maybe this is the new norm? You spout some crazy stuff about wanting to jihad on the infidels and then a nice friendly guy shows up to give you the means and BAM! you're locked away for a terrorist plot... [Peep]
hmmm, wonder if one could start spouting stuff and get some free (legal) gifts as encouragement for the illegal stuff you are pretending to be undecided about.
Would be a very dangerous game to play though.
dwalker460
10-17-2012, 15:17
Wow, soooo I take it by this you guys support terrorism?
Interesting...
Am I to judge by your commentary that had this puke succeeded you would have found fault with the FBI etc. for not being aware of a terror plot?
Yeah, I think so...
I don't think anybody here advocated the guy's actions. It's just that in the past few years, the vast majority of foiled bomb plots have been with bombs the feds have provided the intended bomber with.
more like the FBI has destroyed its credibility by fabricating terror plots then foiling them.
Uberjager
10-17-2012, 15:31
Wow, soooo I take it by this you guys support terrorism?
Interesting...
Am I to judge by your commentary that had this puke succeeded you would have found fault with the FBI etc. for not being aware of a terror plot?
Yeah, I think so...
There's a huge difference between breaking up a terror cell, and this which is basically entrapment.
dwalker460
10-17-2012, 15:41
There's a huge difference between breaking up a terror cell, and this which is basically entrapment.
Ahhh no, if you come to this country specifically to commit an act of terrorism, solicit material to build a bomb, exchange money for said materials, and then go detonate those materials, you have not been entrapped. You are a terrorist. The fact you bought those materials from an undercover agent is simply another in a long line of bad decisions you have made.
There's a huge difference between breaking up a terror cell, and this which is basically entrapment.
Eh, technically... with or without the "help" of the FBI undercover operatives, he wanted to blow something up here, just like a guy rants and raves about wanting to kill his ex-wife, it's not entrapment if you hand him a gun (not loaded) and he pulls the trigger... it just proves he was gonna do it.
Rust_shackleford
10-17-2012, 16:05
Eh, technically... with or without the "help" of the FBI undercover operatives, he wanted to blow something up here, just like a guy rants and raves about wanting to kill his ex-wife, it's not entrapment if you hand him a gun (not loaded) and he pulls the trigger... it just proves he was gonna do it.
asinine
Eh, technically... with or without the "help" of the FBI undercover operatives, he wanted to blow something up here, just like a guy rants and raves about wanting to kill his ex-wife, it's not entrapment if you hand him a gun (not loaded) and he pulls the trigger... it just proves he was gonna do it.
I see these more like this:
Guy rants about his ex wife.
FBI: Why don't you shut up and do something about it instead of ranting.
guy: I dont know
FBI: It'd be easy, I'll even buy you a plane ticket. Who would know.
guy: I guess, ok
guy gets nailed.
Did they guy do something wrong? of course.
Was he a danger before the FBI came along? Is anyone actually any safer? no
dwalker460
10-17-2012, 16:52
Where do you guys come up with this stuff? The nutjob came to the US to cause trouble! He went online trying to recruit and form a terrorist cell. He got his peepee whacked because he did so. Period.
He is not some asshat in a bar who says he is going to start shit, and an agent says "oh yeh? I dont think you have the nuts... "He is a guy who got on a plane, flew over and started terrorist activities long before the FBI heard of him.
Sheesh, do you guys KNOW this assclown? Do you have not have the common sense to understand he pushed a detonator thinking he was about to kill US Citizens? WTF is wrong with you??? Had the FBI missed this guy, and he found Joe Muhammad liberal asswipe college clown with a grudge instead of an FBI agent and actually managed to blow something up, you would be whining like little girls and wringing your soft little paws about how they should have caught it and been more alert for signs of terrorist activity. But you just continue to ignore the fact the guy pulled the trigger...
Once again, people on both sides of the issue are leaping to Tall Conclusions using the springboard of snippets of information. I don't have enough information(and probably never will) to decide whether this nutjob was incited (not entrapped) by the glory hounds at the FBI, or if good police work on the agency's part prevented a potential disaster.
DavieD55
10-17-2012, 19:24
Once again, people on both sides of the issue are leaping to Tall Conclusions using the springboard of snippets of information. I don't have enough information(and probably never will) to decide whether this nutjob was incited (not entrapped) by the glory hounds at the FBI, or if good police work on the agency's part prevented a potential disaster.
Exactomundo +1
I agree with both sides of this argument (not that anyone cares). I've come to the conclusion that if people are going to be coming here with the intent to cause harm, I'd rather they be intercepted by the FBI than someone else.
I agree with both sides of this argument (not that anyone cares). I've come to the conclusion that if people are going to be coming here with the intent to cause harm, I'd rather they be intercepted by the FBI than someone else.
I concur- but what Dwalker said- let's not over simplify this, the guy was going to do this no matter what, that's the point I was trying to make, not trying to say the FBI pushed him... That's not how it works.
the guy was going to do this no matter what, that's the point I was trying to make,
and my point was that the FBI may well have pushed him and he wouldn't have done anything without that push.
After hearing more about this arrest this morning I may be wrong, in this case. It sounds like this guy found them, came over and picked his own targets.
Given the history of these FBI investigations, I don't exactly trust them when they say they caught a dangerous terrorist.
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