Having killed 26-year-old Usama Rahim earlier this week at a bus stop in front of a Boston-area CVS, officials are now declaring him not only a “terror suspect,” but someone who was involved in an “ISIS-inspired plot” to behead police officers.
The evidence presented so far appears incredibly flimsy, in spite of FBI claims that they’d been trailing Rahim 24-hours a day for months on end, citing a Tuesday morning police call in which he claimed to have wanted to “go after them, those boys in blue.”
That’s not exactly the same thing as a beheading plot, but officials are looking to treat it as the same thing, claiming that he had a “machete,” which was later revised to a knife, and that he had mentioned beheading some unidentified person in a conversation with two other people.
With Rahim already dead and thus no court proceedings necessary, expect officials to continue to hype the “foiled plot” with impunity, knowing that they’ll never actually have to defend the allegations with more than just comments to media outlets.
It's still not too late to toss the body in the Indian Ocean and call it cultural-sensitivity.
Meanwhile with Saddam's two sons they laid them out like pieces of meat with the flies crawling on their faces.
When they kill Americans it's because they were "resisting" or "reaching for the cop's gun" while being beat up by a dozen steroidal cops. When they kill Muslim it's because they're plotting IS attacks. That's the pretty much the script now, isn't it?
and you know that he wanted to behead the police because the police said so. They would never lie to you.
Boston is hype-city these days, what with the Marathon Bombing and a big new over-sized monument to slain MIT patrolman Sean Collier right on the campus of MIT (next to the Koch building). There is also much talk in the news about the police injured during the pursuit and killing of one of the suspects. Friendly fire, but so what. Police can now officially do no wrong, especially in conjunction with feds. Too bad most of it is an illusion created for those who had once supported the Occupy Boston movement and whose ancestors had driven the British imperial forces from the place a few centuries back.
I even heard Pam Geller is trying to claim this dead "terrorist" was after her.
I guess that big mosque at the edge of Roxbury, the black neighborhood, is going to feel some heat.
It's always been a pretty crooked place, but sometimes you can really see the outlines a lot better.
They could have tasered him.
So since our Fearless Fosdicks have been on his trail for so long, just who was he talking to during this alleged phones call in which he allegedly said he wanted to 'go after them'? And what was the content of the entire phones call? It's easy to cherry pick something and present it completely out of context- but we'd never, ever do that.