Sounds bogus to me. Not a terrorist, but a minor criminal punk, I’d guess.
Most certainly not a terrorist. Probably some personal grudge. Maybe drug-related.
This is southern Minnesota farm country, not the northwoods that appeals to anti-government types.
Only called ‘terrorist’ to pad the white Christian male stats.
That's how I read it too. Consider this, the Feds still haven't been able to guess at what the Boston bombers motivation was, but in this case they are certain the individual was motivated to be a terrorist.
As you said, it sounds like they caught a petty criminal with a few items that go bang. And what was the armored vehicle needed for? They likely could have just waited for him to walk out his door and then cuff him in a routine arrest.
I read this as a sign that the Feds are making a case much larger than this one felon.