The FBI has arrested a 20-year-old Cincinnati man, Christopher Lee Cornell, who they say was planning to attack the US Capitol building in the hopes of killing Congressmen.
The FBI notified law enforcement of the incident, saying the man had been making the rounds on Twitter under the alias Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah, expressing support for ISIS and talking about his desire to carry out jihadist attacks.
An FBI informant made contact with him related to the tweets, and got him to admit to a plan to attack the Capitol building with pipe bombs, and then shoot people fleeing.
He was arrested this morning after buying a pair of semi-automatic rifles and ammunition, and the FBI claimed he had made plans to travel to the Washington DC area. Oddly, officials insisted that the public was in no danger at any time from the plot.
And, how much of our tax money did the efa-ah-be-uh-eye lay on Mr. Cornell prior to his arms purchases?
A serious attempt planned on congress would not advertise on twitter. This mentally ill young man topped the NBC news Wednesday. The only revelation , how weak NBC News has become.
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Oddly, officials insisted that the public was in no danger at any time
Hoover Boyz seemed to be in that habit when they'd been working on the individual ('stings')… Another explanation might be(?) that the target wasn't 'the public,' in their view, this time. If that were so, I like the distinction between a gov't target and the rest of us…
Who gave him the money and drove him to the gunshop to load-up?
A slow of thought laboring man who never owned a gun — Not until FBI gave him the cash
“the father said his son didn’t have nearly enough money to buy the expensive assault weapons or large volume of ammunition that led to his arrest.
“These guns cost almost $2,000. Where did that money come from? Well, it came from the FBI,” he said. “They set him up.”
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/15/whose…
I am with most of the posters here who think the FBI informant then became the provocateur in a sting operation so the Feds can have another show trial. There have been way too many of these entrapments by the FBI and they then find federal judges who are compliant/complicit in not throwing the case out of court. There are reports that the provocateurs in some cases were paid $100,000 for their role in enticing gullible young men into dangerous actions. Until the provocateur encouraged them, these men didn't have the wherewithal or even intent to carry out their actions.
If you're publicizing your plans on Twitter, you're either a pawn in a sting operation or you're exceedingly stupid, or both. A true hardcore attacker is going to do everything perfectly normal, he's going to blend in with the crowd, he's going to be the last person would suspect of doing anything like that. He's probably not going to grow a full-up jihadi beard or wear traditional Arabic clothing- he's going to be The Boy Next Door and probably a stand-up guy in the community.
Remember, old-school Japanese ninjas didn't run around in black suits and masks all the time and they certainly didn't advertise in any way they were ninjas. They looked and acted just like everyone else- and when they carried out their mission, they went right back to their normal everyday lives without any sign they'd been involved in anything nefarious.
In short, it's another young man set up and punished for being gullible.
"An FBI informant made contact with him related to the tweets, and got him to admit to a plan to attack the Capitol building with pipe bombs, and then shoot people fleeing."
Really Jason? Where did you get this info?
Please read Greenwald's account of how FBI concocted this whole plan, and then pinned it on Cornell. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/16/lat…