In a high profile media event, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other top local officials announced the arrest of Jose Pimentel, a Dominican Republic-born blogger who, in their narrative, “represents exactly the kind of threat the FBI director Robert Mueller has warned about.”
Police say they have followed his “every move” since May 2009, when he expressed some sort of vague support for al-Qaeda on his blog, TrueIslam1.com. They just now got around to arresting him, saying he was close to completing a “really powerful” pipe bomb that was going to somehow simultaneously attack city officials, police, postal workers, military recruiters and returning soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Officials say Pimentel was likely to attack a mailbox first to see if his pipe bomb worked, then move on to other targets. He was said to have no links to any terrorist group and was simply a “lone wolf.”
According to Mayor Bloomberg, Pimentel was really keen on Anwar Awlaki, and also for some reason Saddam Hussein. He reportedly once made a comment that he might change his name to “Osama Hussein.” He is said to have got the idea about the “pipebomb” from an article in Inspire Magazine.
(-sigh-) Don't tell me. Let me guess. Did the FBI have anything to do with this?
If the FBI had been involved they would have been sure to link him to the Quds force and Iran. The fact that he is a "lone wolf" suggest the Feds had nothing to do with the arrest.
There may be something to that but the amateurish "bomb" has FBI written all over it. I am however reminded of that FBI bomb that wasn't supposed to "go off" but did in the basement of the WTC long before 9/11.
lol, OWS is beating drums outside his Mansion.
This is 2011.
People are actually building timer devices using mechanical clocks, screws and wires? How about a visit to the local electronics shop? Jesus!
Reminds me of the good old times when the local "evil boy-scout engineering club of two" was building blackpowder explosive devices to blow up molehills 🙂
"Officials say Pimentel was likely to attack a mailbox first to see if his pipe bomb worked, …"
LOL. Kids in the hinterland play with pipebombs and also target…mailboxes.
That must explain the slow disappearance of said boxes across the nation and the subsequent decrease in postal "service"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest_Pipe_Bomber
Read it. Rather sad, pathetic, and unknown to me, but my poke at irony was the reality of them disappearing and not through pipe bomb antics of psychotic losers.
There's an immigration dimension to this story although it won't be discussed, or not in a rational or fair manner. The suspect (and I admit he is only a suspect at this point) is from the Dominican Republic. One more reason to end immigration, and or to end our foolish interventionist policies. If your going to have a wide open 1.5 million foreigners enter your country annually (plus unknown numbers of illegals, "visa-overstayers" etc,) then you had better make sure you "Switzerlandize" your foreign policy.
Why stop with Dominicans? Why don't we all hand back the land to the native people and get the hell out of here?!
Same old garbage knee-jerk respsonse.
Didn't Cortez wipe out the Aztecs? Nobody says Mexico has to take in 1.5 million people a year from overseas. Didn't Pizarro overthrow the Incas? Nobody says Peru has to have global immigration. People like you make these knee-jerk straw man claims without ever attempting to explain the supposed merits of immigration. Probably because you can't.
When I was doing work around a courthouse in th Mid Eighties someone exploded a pipe bomb in the courthouse square. This guy was eventually caught, after setting off bombs all over the Midwest. It was news for a day or 2. There are many bombs placed and expoded all the time in this country. Remember the Uni- bomber for one. Labor and gang violence are other instances. This, in my opinion, is nothing more then wagging the Dog. Everytime some disgruntled nut makes a big fire cracker we are supposed to be impressed when they catch him. Of course he was probably entrapped by some govenment agent into doing it in the first place.
The FBI Office of Pre-Crime does it again and we are safe. However, we are NOT necessarily "safe" from the FBI. Bozos and/or Keystone Cops…
zzzzzzzzzzzz..Sam old story..The Feds runing out of options to scare people. Tomorrow they will downgrade to arresting kids for using fire crackers.
Mail box bomber, what next?
Don't look at OWS. Look over here!
It's so warm and cozy in the arms of a police state isn't it?
These latter day totalitarians are merely plagiarizing the scripts from the Soviet industrial wreckers trials and updating the characters and scenarios from the original counter-revolutionary White Guard template to the Islamofascist template. Even general flavor of the idiotic prosecutorial scripting mistakes, laughably contrived plots, and timeline anachronisms of the original trials is reflected in the present performances. The pathetic thing is that the masses of the American booboisie are too ignorant to see it.
Unemployed blogger…hmmm…the plot thickens. And by that I'm not suggesting that Mikey Bloomberg is trying to deflect attention from his mess with OWS or anything, of course.
Why does Antiwar have to use 'Unemployed' blogger in it's title?
I'd hope that Antiwar wouldn't get into using these 'loaded' terms ala' the corporate media, intended to give the 'right' impression. And if they are simply parroting the media's words, than one can always use quotations…imo, of course….