A teenager tried to set off a bomb during a tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon. The Somali born Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested after sending a signal to a fake bomb setup as a part of a sting operation. He's been charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. Apparently his communications with contacts in Pakistan were intercepted by US agents and the sting operation was setup to ensnare him and any accomplices. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/27/mohamed-osman-mohamud-portland-car-bomb_n_788695.html
Does this mean we will soon have to submit to getting violated by security just to be in a public place?
By making it national news the powers that be can affect a general sense of security and create general receptiveness to the further erosion of freedom.
Who decided that it was a good idea to invite a Somali Muslim fundamentalist to USA anyway? With the millions clamoring to get in and being turned down, why him?
Because he has proven to be a useful tool in softening general resistance to further erosion of our liberties.
I don't think he had that written on his passport. I'm trying to find if he spent most of his life in the US.
Exactly. The gov't played him like a song. They knew what he was up to, and rather than shut him down, they encouraged him, knowing full well that if they waited until he let loose, they'd have a big publicity coup. They don't mention any accomplices in the actual act, except the US gov't (the contact in Pakistan did nothing to help him). So the US gov't was complicit in this action, and encouraged him, rather than locking him up at their earliest convenience so they could steal some headlines showing they're doing their job, which is to SPREAD MORE FEAR among the people.
You have a point there. The old time communists used to speak of "useful idiots". I.E. Those not in the know, not in the subversive cells, but easily manipulated to serve the party's purpose, unbeknownst to the useful idiot. The tactics of bureaucrats world wide is the same, regardless of ideology.
I was there in the square last night. I missed his public scene by a few minutes. Of course this was a staged thwarted terror attack. The FBI wants to find as many clueless psychopathic islamic named patsies as they can. So they can implement TSA body scanners on city streets.
Well come on, religious nutjob, or hard working mexican american who will integrate well and improve our culture? Obvious choice, I know I want my shit bombed... Since he was set up and didn't even have a real bomb, but one supplied by the US, is this not a false flag operation, technically?
he didnt have anything that was real. some play dough and some fake wires. provided to him but FBI agents... you know why his lips are so big??.. His first attempt to blow up a car, burned his lips on the tailpipe.... :sultan:.. Allahu Akbar.
so....how did they find out about this? did he just walk up to an fbi agent and go "want to help me blow some people up?" without knowing the dude was an agent? this kid is on my top 20 of some of the ugliest most alien looking people I have ever seen