WRONG!
Remember the Portland Seven?
Yeah, they've been there and done that before.
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| Somali teenager 'tried to set off carbomb in US' | |
| 2010-11-27 | |
| Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was held after he attempted to detonate what he believed was an explosives-laden van at an annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon. However, undercover FBI agents had been monitoring his plans and had ensured that the "bomb" was in fact incapable of exploding. Mohamud, a naturalised US citizen of Somali descent, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Portland police around 5:40 pm Friday (0040 GMT Saturday). "The threat was very real. Our investigation shows that Mohamud was absolutely committed to carrying out an attack on a very grand scale," said Arthur Balizan, a special agent in charge of the FBI in Oregon. "At the same time, I want to reassure the people of this community that, at every turn, we denied him the ability to actually carry out the attack."
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| Posted by:tipper |
| #24 Most of them seem to be taxi drivers in Washington D.C. ...and in Columbus and Indianapolis, though there are a lot of Ethiopians and Eritreans there as well. Honestly, I have a hard time telling the three groups apart unless they're wearing a name tag. Eritreans are Muslim as well, though they seem pretty Midwesternized to me. Though it seems one never can tell. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2010-11-27 19:19 |
| #23 Get a load of this from Firedog Lake Tonight in Portland, we had a small dose of the FBIÂ’s almost-operational terror sprees, as agents spent more than a year goading a young jihadi wannabe into almost killing thousands of Portlandians in our cityÂ’s living room as we gathered for the lighting of the holiday tree. |
| Posted by: Beavis 2010-11-27 19:14 |
| #22 Pappy called it. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-11-27 16:52 |
| #21 Which brings into question all the nonsense going on at the airports with the TSA. If the bad guys want to get us they don't need no stinkin' airplane. Just kick 'em all outta here. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque (new computer) 2010-11-27 15:45 |
| #20 They've hired me to scrape the Obama bumper stickers off their cars. I've got a powerful lot of work in front of me, but I enjoy it. Oh, and a big shout out to the INS for naturalizing little Mo'. Were you trying to get me killed, you a-holes? |
| Posted by: Matt 2010-11-27 14:25 |
| #19 Matt, what are you doing in Portland? Didn't know people of Rantburg persuasion were allowed there. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-11-27 14:11 |
| #18 Glenmore - yeah, although it looks like the FBI had this under control from the get-go, I took lil' Mohamed trying to kill me and my family kind of personal-like. |
| Posted by: Matt 2010-11-27 14:07 |
| #17 As a "teachable moment" for the local jihadi "community", they should've lit this kid up like a Christmas tree when they had the chance. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-11-27 13:56 |
| #16 Matt, our daughters fiance works a couple of blocks from there - these events are getting entirely 'too close to home.' |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-11-27 13:50 |
| #15 Most of them seem to be taxi drivers in Washington D.C. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2010-11-27 13:16 |
| #14 Somalians and Paks are the worse immigrants in the UK.USA are learning this now themselves! |
| Posted by: Paul D 2010-11-27 12:19 |
| #13 Frozen Al - you're assuming he won't drop the charges |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-11-27 12:13 |
| #12 I note from his picture that he has wide, kissable lips that should come in handy in prison. Not that he will actually be looking at whoever. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-11-27 11:54 |
| #11 Thank God the FBI has not been infected by Eric Holder. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2010-11-27 11:29 |
| #10 Just another isolated man caused disaster person. After all, Mo Os Mo is on some immigration blotter notation as 'he was an good boy'. |
| Posted by: Muggsy Glink 2010-11-27 11:12 |
| #9 just living the "our strength lies within our diversity" dream, no? |
| Posted by: jack salami 2010-11-27 11:01 |
| #8 Since I was in the Pioneer Square crowd, along with my wife and son, the FBI and the Portland PD have my truly sincere thanks. I had no idea this happened until I saw the news. There were lots of Portland PD in the crowd, and none that I saw looked on guard. The tree lighting was supposed to take place at 5:30, but was moved back to 6:00 for no announced reason (at least that I heard.) |
| Posted by: Matt 2010-11-27 10:29 |
| #7 I'm getting tired of this Somali shit. Stop their immigration |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-11-27 09:29 |
| #6 Sometimes I get the feeling our FBI & other security outfits are a bit like Columbo (Peter Falk) - just acting incompetent - because they have interupted several such plots. But then there are other plots that only fail because of terrorist incompetence (Time Square.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-11-27 09:20 |
| #5 Sure you cultural chauvinists will try to depict him as as some jihadist mad bomber for trying to blow up a gathering of children celebrating Christmas in the public square... When he's just a hard working immigrant trying to enforce his adopted nation's constitutional separation of church and state. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2010-11-27 08:13 |
| #4 Oregon used to export some of its criminals to private prisons in other States, however it had some problems with female prisoners sent to AZ, so the practice was outlawed. But since 2006 they have been considering allowing the opening of their own private prisons. In past I've heard arguments that with some treaty negotiations, several of the major Indian reservations would be exceptional at hosting private prisons. It could be a win-win, offering tribes lots of high wage employment, especially if the agreement put the non-Indian prisoners under tribal, not State, law. This is critical, as the tribes would not be as hamstrung over the provision of "amenities" as are the States. And just coincidentally, back in 1996, a federal law was passed to offer grants to the tribes who were interested in building their own prisons, with the idea of their being able to incarcerate their own. But no restrictions were placed on that money. So this young Somali gentleman would be packed off to a reservation, either inside or outside of Oregon, yet he would not be under State incarceration rules, but those of the tribe, which might lean a tad more towards the "hard labor" side of the equation. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-11-27 07:38 |
| #3 Mohamud dismissed concerns about law enforcement, explaining that, " ... It's in Oregon; and Oregon, like, you know, nobody ever thinks about," according to the affidavit. WRONG! Remember the Portland Seven? Yeah, they've been there and done that before. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-11-27 05:45 |
| #2 This crap is only going to get worse. We have the same problems here in the UK and in Europe.It is our own fault, we have allowed Muslims to settle in our lands, they are the enemy within. |
| Posted by: Dave UK 2010-11-27 05:14 |
| #1 Update Mohamud allegedly responded he was looking for a "huge mass that will ... be attacked in their own element with their families celebrating the holidays." Mohamud dismissed concerns about law enforcement, explaining that, " ... It's in Oregon; and Oregon, like, you know, nobody ever thinks about," according to the affidavit. |
| Posted by: tipper 2010-11-27 04:46 |