Feds: Somali-born teen plotted car-bombing in Ore

[Zava 1]

Nope, nothing to see here folks. We shouldn't profile people because that's 'racist.'

I was picking up my kid from work right there at that time. A lot of my friend were DT with families.

There were soooooooooo many people! Thank you all whom didn't let it happened!

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http://www.wfaa.com/news/national/Federal-agents-in-a-sting-operation-arrested-a-Somali-born-teenager-just-as-he-tried-blowing-up-a-van-he-believed-was-loaded-with-explosives-at-a-crowded-Christmas-tree-lighting-ceremony-in-Portland-authorities-said--110905879.html

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Federal agents in a sting operation arrested a Somali-born teenager just as he tried blowing up a van he believed was loaded with explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, authorities said.

The bomb was an elaborate fake supplied by the agents and the public was never in danger, authorities said.

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. Friday just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would set off the blast but instead brought federal agents and police swooping down on him.

Yelling "Allahu Akbar!" -- Arabic for "God is great!" -- Mohamud tried to kick agents and police after he was taken into custody, according to prosecutors.

"The threat was very real," said Arthur Balizan, special agent in charge of the FBI in Oregon. "Our investigation shows that Mohamud was absolutely committed to carrying out an attack on a very grand scale."

The FBI affidavit that outlined the investigation alleges that Mohamud planned the attack for months, at one point mailing bomb components to FBI operatives, whom he believed were assembling the device.

It said Mohamud was warned several times about the seriousness of his plan, that women and children could be killed, and that he could back out, but he told agents: "Since I was 15 I thought about all this;" and "It's gonna be a fireworks show ... a spectacular show."

Mohamud, a naturalized U.S. citizen living in Corvallis, was charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. A court appearance was set for Monday. Few details were available about him late Friday.

Authorities allowed the plot to proceed in order to build up enough evidence to charge the suspect with attempt.

Officials didn't say if the suspect had any ties to other Americans recently accused of trying to carry out attacks on U.S. soil, including alleged efforts in May by a Pakistan-born man to set off a car bomb near Times Square or another Pakistan-born Virginia resident accused last month in a bomb plot to kill commuters.

U.S. Attorney Dwight Holton released federal court documents to The Associated Press and the Oregonian newspaper that show the sting operation began in June after an undercover agent learned that Mohamud had been in regular e-mail contact with an "unindicted associate" in Pakistan's northwest, a frontier region where al-Qaida and Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents are strong.

The two used coded language in which the FBI believes Mohamud discussed traveling to Pakistan to prepare for "violent jihad," the documents said.

In June an FBI agent contacted Mohamud "under the guise of being affiliated with" the suspected terrorist. But the documents did not say how federal officials first became aware of Mohamud.

An undercover agent met with him a month later in Portland, where they "discussed violent jihad," according to the court documents.

As a trial run, Mohamud and agents detonated a bomb in Oregon's backcounry earlier this month.

"This defendant's chilling determination is a stark reminder that there are people -- even here in Oregon -- who are determined to kill Americans," Holton said.

Friday, an agent and Mohamud drove to downtown Portland in a white van that carried six 55-gallon drums with detonation cords and plastic caps, but all of them were inert, the complaint states.

They left the van near the downtown ceremony site and went to a train station where Mohamud was given a cell phone that he thought would blow up the vehicle, according to the complaint. There was no detonation when he dialed, and when he tried again federal agents and police made their move.

Omar Jamal, first secretary to the Somali mission to the United Nations, condemned the plot and urged Somalis to cooperate with police and the FBI.

"Talk to them and tell them what you know so we can all be safe," Jamal said.

Somalia Foreign Minister Mohamed Abullahi Omaar said his government is "ready and willing" to offer the U.S. any assistance it may need to prevent similar attempts. He said the attempt in Portland was a tragedy for Mohamud's family and the "people he tried to harm."

"Mohamud's attempt is neither representative nor an example of Somalis. Somalis are peace loving people," said Omaar, whose government is holed up in a few blocks of the capital, Mogadishu, while much of the country's southern and central regions are ruled by Islamist insurgents.

Tens of thousands of Somalis have resettled in the United States since their country plunged into lawlessness in 1991.

U.S. authorities have been struggling against a recent spate of terror plans by U.S. citizens or residents.

In the Times Square plot, Faisal Shazhad allegedly tried to set off a car bomb at a bustling street corner. U.S. authorities had no intelligence about Shahzad's plot until the smoking car turned up in Manhattan.

Late last month, Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Virginia was arrested and accused of casing Washington-area subway stations in what he thought was an al-Qaida plot to bomb and kill commuters. Similar to the Portland sting, the bombing plot was a ruse conducted over the past six months by federal officials.

And a year ago in another federal sting, 19-year-old Jordanian Hosam Smadi was arrested on charges he intended to bomb a downtown Dallas skyscraper. Federal officials said he placed what he believed was a car bomb outside the building but was instead a decoy device given him by an undercover FBI agent.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

A Muslim terrorist? I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you.

Can we dispense with the denials and open an honest dialogue of 'why' so many terrorists are Muslims?

[sandinista! 1,816]

because that's who the fbi's offering $250k and bmws to right now?

two years ago, in oregon, a white, non-muslim father and son named bruce and joshua turnidge teamed up to build a real bomb that they put in a real bank that really exploded and really killed two very real police officers and caused real injuries to two other real people. iirc, another police officer really lost his real leg. the bombers were angry that obama had been elected, and thought he was going to take their guns away. these guys had been shady as he11 since the 90s-the dad along with some other guys tried to get a loan from some businessman so they could buy military grade weapons for some crazy arsed militia they belonged to, and the father and son were both seen cheering when they heard the news about the ok city bombing. some lady that went to church with the dad heard him say timothy mcveigh was a hero. their business' office manager heard them talk about robbing banks on numerous occasions, but there was never any undercover fbi sniffing around the turnidges prior to them blowing up two cops. no one enticing them with cash to bail out their failing business or hooking them up explosives experts.

i'm glad that God only knows how much money was spent on an investigation into this kid in 2010, who barely sounds competent enough to wipe his own #######, over the course of several months. they knew he was nuts back in july, but strung this ####### out until the end of november? but the turnidge monsters didn't rate a single whit of interest to any kind of authorities two years ago, because they had the know-how all by themselves to build bombs. they didn't need to muck around on the internet looking for undercover fbi explosives experts. that's a nice irony... but inexcusable, given how many alarm bells these guys set off before anyone was blown up by their bomb.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Sand are you calling Muslims greedy and too stupid to make bombs on their own?

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Mohamed Mohamud...... a terrorist so nice they had to name him twice.

Burn in hell you scumbag.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

If we eliminated all the crimes that have been committed in the name of religion, Earth would be a peaceful planet, indeed.

Organized religion is a placeholder for reason, as any doubt in validity can be answered with "you have to have faith." There is nothing more dangerous in the universe than that.