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

[Jacaylbaro]

PORTLAND, Ore. – A Somali-born teenager plotted to carry out a car bomb attack at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Portland on Friday, but the bomb turned out to be a dud supplied by undercover agents as part of a sting, federal prosecutors said.

 

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would blow up a van laden with explosives but instead brought federal agents and Portland police swooping in to take him into custody.

 

Mohamud yelled "Allahu Akhkbar" and tried to kick agents and police as the arrest came, according to prosecutors.

 

He was charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.

 

U.S. Attorney Dwight Holton released federal court documents Friday that show the sting operation began in June after an undercover agent learned that Mohamud had been in contact with an "unindicted associate" in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier region.

 

Mohamud is a naturalized U.S. citizen who has been living in Corvallis.

 

According to a federal complaint, Mohamud was in regular email contact with the "unindicted associate' in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier starting in August 2009.

 

The complaint states that in December 2009 Mohamud and the "unindicted associate" used coded language in an email in which the FBI believes Mohamud discussed traveling to Pakistan to prepare for "violent jihad."

 

The document says in the months that followed Mohamud made 'multiple efforts" to contact another "undicted associate" to arrange travel to Pakistan but had a faulty email address for that person.

 

Last June an FBI agent contacted Mohamud "under the guise of being affiliated with the first associate."

 

Mohamud and the undercover agent agreed to meet in Portland on July 30. At that meeting, the undercover agent and Mohamud "discussed violent jihad," according to the court document.

 

Mohamud told the agent he wanted to set off explosives at the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square, an event that occurred on Friday.

 

On Friday, an undercover 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 got out of the van and walked to meet another undercover agent, who drove to Union Station, the Portland train station, where Mohamud was given a cell phone that he thought would blow up the van, according to the complaint.

 

Mohamud dialed the phone agents had given him, and was told the bomb did not detonate. The undercover agents suggested he get out of the car and try again to improve the signal, when he did, he was arrested, the complaint said.

[Che -Guevara]

This is setup!

[Jacaylbaro]

[London2010]

Throw him to the dogs. I hate people like this. Weak people with weak weak minds. Easily fooled. He is nothing.

[Cara.]

Originally posted by Che -Guevara:

This is setup!

What a waste of taxpayer money. Some duumb teen emails someone about waging jihad but doesn't get a response because he can't even manage to get the right email. So the government sets up an elaborate trap, complete with the id!ot getting encouraged over months, help with getting supplies and logistics, then gets handed a cell phone to press a button.

 

Seems like a huge psychological experiment. What uninformed angry teenager with violent impulses (whether it's a school shooting, gang violence, or a terrorist attack) wouldn't have done the same?

[Boom Boom]

We're a cursed community. Things are going to get worse.

[London2010]

This is said of him:

 

''He grew distant from his family and spent more time at the mosque. He listened to conversations about the plight of the Palestinians and shared the anger over the support of Israel by Washington and its allies''.

 

What a utter waste of space and time this sad nothing is. He threw his life away in America to save what?..... degenerate arabs.

[Jacpher]

^Midkaaga Boomboomta la baxay, daacdaacsiga meesha kala tag.

 

FBI apparently set up US teen blamed for fake car bomb

 

Boy told undercover agents he could get a gun because he's a "rapper"; authored article containing "jihad" workout tips

 

An Somali-born, American teenager was apparently set up by federal law enforcement officials who posed as radical Islamic fighters and lured the young man into a plot he believed would lead him to detonate a car bomb at an Oregon Christmas tree lighting ceremony.

 

The bomb, provided by FBI agents, was "inert" and did not pose a threat to public safety, according to the US Attorney's Office in Oregon.

 

Oddly enough, Arthur Balizan, an FBI agent in Oregon, contradicted the US Attorney's Office, suggesting that the threat posed by 19-year-old Mohamed Osman Mohamud "was very real."

 

Except: "[At] every turn," he explained, "we denied him the ability to actually carry out the attack."

 

The story rings devastatingly familiar when stacked next to the tale of Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a Jordanian man arrested in 2009, at age 19, for allegedly planning to detonate a car bomb in a Dallas skyscraper.

 

Each boy was led down the path to imagined violence by federal agents, with authorities ultimately providing fake bombs in both cases. Smadi and Mohamud, officials claim, expressed a desire to engage in terrorist attacks before agents began luring them in.

 

Federal agents noticed Mohamud in December 2009, after he allegedly communicated with a suspected terrorist in Pakistan. Months later, an undercover agent contacted Mohamud claiming to be the individual's associate, and Mohamud agreed to meet in Portland.

 

Agents claimed that Mohamud revealed himself to be the author of a bizarre 2009 article for the English-language "Jihad Recollections" magazine. The story made headlines for it's comical images of masked fighters helping each other exercise.

 

Other articles in the 70+ page magazine published in North Carolina included a preview of "emp technology," poetry, speeches from Osama bin Laden and a how-to guide to global jihad.

 

One key thing, however, was oddly lacking from the magazine's first edition: as even Fox News noted, it did not explicitly call for violence against anyone.

 

The magazine also featured quotes from Tennessee Republican Congressman Zach Wamp, who made headlines again last July for suggesting that his state secede from the US.

 

Agents also reveal in court documents that Mohamud had told them he might be able to get a gun, because he was a "rapper."

 

"We were unable to determine Mohamud's Jihadi emcee name, or the potency of his flow," Gawker quipped.

 

Court documents claim the first meeting between Mohamud and the FBI took place in July, 2010. In the months following, agents ostensibly worked him up to the point where he was willing to flip the switch on a car bomb. Agents even took Mohamud to a secluded location to blow up a bomb they placed in a backpack, allegedly as a test run.

 

Mohamud was arrested by FBI agents and Portland police around 5:40 pm Friday, after he attempted to remotely detonate what he believed to be an explosives-laden van. Officials claimed that early on Friday, Mohamud had recorded a video explaining why he wanted to carry out the attack.

 

"I want whoever is attending that event to leave, to leave either dead or injured," he said, according to law enforcement.

 

Mohamud is scheduled to appear in federal court on Monday.

 

With AFP.

 

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[Ismalura]

Who wouldn't expect the poilice to do the set up? These people are looking for any opportunity to prove that we are all violence loving terrorists.

 

Barayahan weeyba nagu soctaa...Somali this, Somali that. Ilaahow nosahal.

[poiuytre]

So we're meant to believe that he has been wanting to "wage violent jihad" since he was 15? That he somehow got into contact with a terrorist in Pakistan? Is there a terrorist yellow pages that he found this contact in or something? lol This story doesn't add up at all. I wouldn't be surprised if some undercover agents lured him in the Mosque, planted the ideas in his head and provided him with the materials as well.

[Sultan Dheere]

First the fake hoax Yemen terror package, and now this nonsense.

 

The American Imperialists are really desperate to get into the area between Yemen and Somalia. This is a choke point as is the Suez Canal. Whoever controls this, controls much of Maritime Trade in the region. If you don't go through there, it means you have to travel all the way around Africa. Big financial difference.

 

Currently China is getting some 60% of their energy investment from Sudan, and the Chinese travel in & out of Bab-el-Mandeb to get to Port of Sudan.

 

Don't be surprised if the next big false flag terrorism is by a Somali or Yemeni [from Somalia or Yemen]. Obama will send his US Military Guerillas over there quicker than he can knock one out.

[London2010]

Everything is a conspiracy. These people have learned the arab art of blaming their failures on the Jews. They are living in denial.

Like as if Somalia is not being run by a taliban like group.

[Sultan Dheere]

^ if you want to trust the mass American media propaganda machine, then by all means do so. After all they don't have a history of lying and manipulating people, do they?

 

The stories they come out with don't add up, hence people being very cynical about them. But as per usual the "conspiracy" labels is being thrown about as soon as people question their propaganda intoxication.

[Kool_Kat]

Originally posted by Jacaylbaro:

Maxaa suniyaha ka qaldan?

 

Why not just track his every movement, with his "faulty" email and such, rather than creating a monster out of him? SMH!

[Jacaylbaro]

looooooooooooooooooooooooooool@Maxaa suniyaha ka qaldan?