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F.B.I. Says Oregon Suspect Planned Attack of ‘Grand Scale’
NYTimes ^ | 11/27/10 | COLIN MINER, LIZ ROBBINS and ERIK ECKHOLM

Posted on 11/27/2010 7:00:16 PM PST by Nachum

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Somali-born teenager who thought he was detonating a car bomb at a packed Christmas tree-lighting ceremony downtown here was arrested by the authorities on Friday night after federal agents said that they had spent nearly six months setting up a sting operation.

The bomb, which was in a van parked off Pioneer Courthouse Square, was a fake — planted by F.B.I. agents as part of the elaborate sting — but “the threat was very real,” Arthur Balizan, the F.B.I.’s special agent in charge in Oregon, said in a statement released by the Department of Justice. An estimated 10,000 people were at the ceremony on Friday night, the Portland police said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: attack; oregon; planned; suspect

1 posted on 11/27/2010 7:00:20 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Diversity is a wonderful thing:)


2 posted on 11/27/2010 7:02:09 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Nachum

Probably drawing welfare benefits to finance his plans.


3 posted on 11/27/2010 7:03:11 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
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To: Nachum
There’s something especially evil about trying to blow up a Christmas tree lighting event. Think of all the little kids that would have been there.

So, letting my mind wonder a bit. Thinking how something like this would’ve been handled about 50 years ago or so compared with today. Amazing how things like that never happened much back then, you know, before TSA, Homeland Security and all. Yeah, some town in middle America discovers some Muslim from Somalia about to blow up a bunch of people at a Christmas tree lighting event. Just imagining how those local folk would deal with this guy.

Wonder whatever happened to that those redneck militia types who didn’t even know ho to make bombs that were arrested this past year? Remember those guys? The judge tried to release them because of lack of evidence and DOJ refused. Never heard anything since. So, it’s been quite awhile since their arrest. Anyone hear anything? Is there a case being brought against them? Are they terrorists or are they just a bunch of rednecks with guns that Obama wanted to make an example of?

4 posted on 11/27/2010 7:05:06 PM PST by freemike (John Adams-Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker)
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To: Nachum

And alllllll the way down at the end is the first mention of the words “Islam” or “Muslim”, but it’s just the usual “we denounce terrorists who fail” BS:

On Saturday, Muslim and Arab American leaders in Oregon and southwest Washington condemned the attack in a joint statement, calling it “inexcusable and without any justification in Islam or authentic Muslim tradition.”


5 posted on 11/27/2010 7:06:09 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Obama is like a rocket scientist....who's trying to do brain surgery with a hammer.)
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To: freemike

Reportedly, this guy didn’t care whether he killed children. Heartless SOB.


6 posted on 11/27/2010 7:07:19 PM PST by OldPossum
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To: Nachum
At some point one of these terrorists won't be dumb as a brick and will get one of the bombs to go off. We've been luck so far.

In the mean time keep strip searching grandma and letting anyone named Mohammad through because it's just a coincidence that all of the terrorists - I mean, man made disaster causers - so far have been Islamic radicals.

7 posted on 11/27/2010 7:07:25 PM PST by 69ConvertibleFirebird
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To: Nachum

This shows how important and powerful the vote is in Washington -— far more important than our soverignty or our borders, which includes our national security.

You let them in....this is what you get. When will we lose another 3000 people, or more?


8 posted on 11/27/2010 7:08:05 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Beowulf9

The pig should be drawn and quartered after being told his parts will be wrapped in pig fat, ground and mixed in with feed at the pig farm.


9 posted on 11/27/2010 7:14:55 PM PST by freemike (John Adams-Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker)
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To: freemike

The pig should be drawn and quartered after being told his parts will be wrapped in pig fat, ground and mixed in with feed at the pig farm.
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Yep!

If the government doesn’t start taking these Muslim POS seriously, I see a day where these radicals just start disappearing. We’re not Europe...


10 posted on 11/27/2010 7:49:34 PM PST by Artcore
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To: Nachum

Glad Oregon won’t make the connection between a boy named Mohamhead and Islam violence. We must be tolerant even if it means getting blown up.

They don’t even allow the name Christmas Tree here, it’s called “The Tree.”

Pray for America


11 posted on 11/27/2010 8:07:19 PM PST by bray (63 more reasons the Tea Party Rox)
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To: OldPossum

He’s a psychopath and a Muslim, and the two go together.


12 posted on 11/27/2010 8:10:57 PM PST by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: Artcore
I`d test these scumbags for tissue compatibility and communicable diseases,if someones a match, if they`re willing, and don`t mind taking a scumbag terrorist`s organs,I turn this puke killer wanna-be into a life saver by converting him into spare parts for people in need.
13 posted on 11/27/2010 8:22:13 PM PST by nomad
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To: freemike

To fast free. I say Staked out....Honey....Ants. Slow death for this POS death cult follower.


14 posted on 11/27/2010 8:40:08 PM PST by bobby.223
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To: Nachum

I was born in the Greater PDX area, scary!


15 posted on 11/27/2010 8:43:28 PM PST by yield 2 the right ( Space blank until I come up with a nice Tagline.)
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To: Nachum
Africa: The gift that just keeps on giving.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

16 posted on 11/27/2010 9:16:05 PM PST by The Comedian (Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
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To: nomad

I`d test these scumbags for tissue compatibility and communicable diseases,if someones a match, if they`re willing, and don`t mind taking a scumbag terrorist`s organs,I turn this puke killer wanna-be into a life saver by converting him into spare parts for people in need.
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Hey, this is a great idea! Leave it to Americans to show the rest of the world ingenuity! :)

What’s that old saying: Waste not, want not?


17 posted on 11/27/2010 10:19:30 PM PST by Artcore
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To: Artcore
Either way it needs to die,but that was the point,”Waste not,want not.” And I`m sure the idea of their organs residing in an “infidel`s body” wouldn`t set well with the average wahhabi muzzy.
18 posted on 11/27/2010 10:33:37 PM PST by nomad
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To: Nachum; abcraghead; aimhigh; Archie Bunker on steroids; bicycle thug; blackie; coffeebreak; ...
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19 posted on 11/29/2010 10:59:11 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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