Saturday, November 27, 2010

Prepare for new junk searches...


Somali-born teenager plotted car bombing at Oregon tree lighting ceremony.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Federal agents in a sting operation arrested a Somali-born teenager just as he tried blowing up a van he believed was loaded with explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, authorities said.

The bomb was an elaborate fake supplied by the agents and the public was never in danger, authorities said.

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. Friday just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would set off the blast but instead brought federal agents and police swooping down on him.

Yelling "Allahu Akbar!" — Arabic for "God is great!" — Mohamud tried to kick agents and police after he was taken into custody, according to prosecutors.

"The threat was very real," said Arthur Balizan, special agent in charge of the FBI in Oregon. "Our investigation shows that Mohamud was absolutely committed to carrying out an attack on a very grand scale,"

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Number one: does this mean we will be naked scanned/junk searched before entering all vans and/or attending all tree lighting events?

Number two: how can they say the "threat was very real" when the guy was trying to blow up a van with fake explosives ... that they gave him?

1 comment:

  1. I'm just waiting for someone to say we need to stop having Christmas tree lighting ceremonies or just stop celebrating Christmas at all.... It's for our own safety.

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