PORTLAND, Ore. – Undercover agents in a sting operation stopped a Somali-born teenager from blowing up a van full of explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Portland, federal authorities said.
The bomb was a dud 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,”
This was a great job done by our federal officials. The FBI, CIA, HS and locals all working together to root out idiots. I am waiting for the ACLU to chime in though, was this profiling? Did they entrap the poor believer in Islam?
I would like you liberpuke progressive morons to check out the little part in the story where the RELIGIOUS FANATIC was yelling “Allahu Akbar!” Arabic for “God is great!” The reason I bring this up is: You clowns use “Tim McVeigh as a CHRISTIAN Terrorist” in your ridiculous arguments. Never was there a report of McVeigh using any religious statements prior to or during his capture…The allahpukes are always heard spouting Allahu Akbar. The same call you can hear in Mosques and madrassas around the world.
Wake up Liberals, progressives, and RINO’s, the war is coming here again. Political correctness is going to give it a nice fortress on our shores and YOU idiots are responsible for any damage done.
Recently, Christians radicals have risen up and became very violent, across the globe Christians have began reverting back to the old testament as a guide. They have started terrorizing Islamic countries abroad.
August 2012, in Mecca a Christian suicide bomber detonated himself in a crowd at the holy site killing hundreds. In Syria Christian radicals took people off a bus and decapitated the women wearing hijabs and burned the men alive because they wouldn’t renounce Islam.
On December 3rd 2013, 19 Christian radicals who were members of a tea party hijacked an air plane and crashed into a club full of concert goers watching a Laday Gaga show. ALL people on the plane and in the venue were killed, the death toll number reached 3000. A preacher from the mountain region of West Virginia named Bobby Smith has taken credit for the plan and execution, he invokes the bible passages in the old testament that justify this action.
Bobby Smith and his Christian extremist group number in the thousands, and they are believed to be hiding out in West Virgina’s mountains. A nation wide manhunt is underway. The president of the United States issues a statement of condemnation and urges restraint because all Christians are not radical. Celebrations of the terrorist act are seen in places like Georgia, Florida and Tennessee… Several high powered preachers take to the air waves blaming the Countries of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria and the United States for allowing the Islamic faithful to impose it’s will on Christians.
Meanwhile; Many Churches are criticizing the governments actions of targeting Christians for their religious beliefs, Protests are planned in every part of the world. Catholics in Italy are calling for calm and for the USA not to prosecute all Christians as this is but a small group. Video is shown of Christians burning Koran’s and burning the King of Saudia Arabia in effigy, More terror attacks by Christian radicals have been seen all over the globe. Thousands of innocent Muslims have been killed over the last 3 years just for being Muslim.
The tea party has renounced the action, but also derides the actions of middle eastern Governments and the United States foreign policy as the reason these things happen. As of now the Tea party is trying to build a Christian Outreach center a couple of blocks away from the site of the terrorist act. They say they are just trying to reach out to those people that harbor hate against the Christian religion for the actions of a few.
Of course this is all fiction, but what if?
IF this type of action happened, do you think the liberals/Progressives would be “Sympathetic” to the “Christians” or the “tea Party”? DO you think we would have the same backing of the Mainstream Media? Do you honestly think the rules of engagement would be the same? After 9 years do you think we would still be dealing with murderous Christian radicals?
I’m betting Christians would be relegated to back room prayer meetings in this nation and the tea party would have the stigma of the KKK. (I know they are trying that now, but it’s not yet close)
Sorry I’m late, some of us have to work for a living…(Well at least those of us that still have jobs..Keep the faith Fellow Americans, help is coming in November)
Had to borrow the pic from Atlas Shrugs, it was by far the best.
Perhaps this is why Obama seemed bothered about the shooting…. Just sayin.
Lets see how many Muslims work in the Homeland security Dept.? Foxes guarding the hen house you say?
Yep, the PC culture our libturd friends have forced upon us as a nation and their overly sensitive counterparts who consider themselves Republicans is surely paying dividends now huh?
Fort Hood shooting:
Surely nobody in the media nor anyone elected by WE THE PEOPLE will call this act “Terrorism” because in doing so, would validate the claims made by MOST free thinking individuals that GWB did do at least THAT MUCH RIGHT. This was not your typical run of the mill wacko on a killing spree. This was a religious motivated action and a strike for Islam and Al-Qaeda against the great satan. In that definition it was a terrorist attack on our soil. Something we have not seen since 2001. All the “Lip service” in the world Obama has been spewing does not change the fact that one year into his term WE were struck again by an ISLAMIC Extremist and it cost 13 AMERICAN LIVES.
YOU HAVE GOT TO SEE THIS. The whole thing is about ten minutes and it can happen here too. IT Is already starting in the urban cities, and those that are stating “If Obama looses it’s because of Racism” are helping to fan the flames of violence here.
IF McCain is George Bush, I would say Barack Hussein Obama is Raila Odinga. He supported him 100% of the time and HE is related to him. Did you see the riot scenes? Picture Los Angeles, Picture New York, Picture SEVERAL Inner city’s exploding into violence and picture Barack Hussein Obama fanning the flames….. His family has been doing it for years.
Iranians chanted “Death to Israel” on Friday as Islamist students unveiled a book mocking the Holocaust in an Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day annual parade to show solidarity with the Palestinians.
And in Gaza City, the Islamist Hamas movement that has ruled the impoverished Palestinian territory since June 2007 marked the day by calling for more suicide attacks on Israel.
The book “Holocaust,” published by members of Iran’s Islamist Basij militia, features dozens of cartoons and sarcastic commentary.
Education Minister Alireza Ali-Ahmadi attended the official launch of the book in Tehran’s Palestine Square.
The cover shows a Jew with a crooked nose and dressed in traditional garb drawing outlines of dead bodies on the ground.
Inside, bearded Jews are shown leaving and re-entering a gas chamber with a counter that reads the number 5,999,999.
Another illustration depicts Jewish prisoners entering a furnace in a Nazi extermination camp and leaving from the other side as gun-wielding “terrorists.”
Yet another shows a patient draped in an Israeli flag and on life support breathing Zyklon-B, the poisonous gas used in the extermination chambers.
Iran does not recognise the Jewish state, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has attracted international condemnation by repeatedly predicting Israel is doomed to disappear and branding the Holocaust a “myth.”
The commentary inside the book includes anti-Semitic stereotypes and revisionist arguments, casting doubt that the massacre of Jews took place and mocking Holocaust survivors who claimed reparations after World War II.
One comment, in a question-and-answer format, reads: “How did the Germans emit gas into chambers while there were no holes on the ceiling?” Answer: “Shut up, you criminal anti-Semite. How dare you ask this question?”
In 2006, the Islamic republic hosted a conference of Holocaust deniers and revisionists and a mass-circulation Iranian newspaper held a cartoon competition on the subject.
On Friday, tens of thousands of Iranians marched in Tehran, chanting “Death to Israel,” declaring solidarity with the Palestinians and calling for Jerusalem and Israel to be handed to the Palestinians.
Demonstrators carried placards bearing slogans including “Israel will be destroyed, Palestine is Victorious” and “Holy war until victory,” and they also torched American and Israeli flags.
No Holocaust? It was just a joke I guess, I mean the Germans didn’t kill millions of Jews and America didn’t rescue millions more… So denial is not just a river in Egypt.
Mr Obama says he will meet with these idiots without pre-conditions. Mr Obama thinks WE are to blame for Iran’s power play and I somewhat agree with that assertion. HOWEVER; We all know that blaming is not solving and it is evident that Obama’s entire campaign is about BLAME, his Socialistic tendencies will not help with terrorists the economy or ANY of the current problems our nation faces.
THE ANTI-Christ is here ladies and gentlemen and he is bringing the light… He is Barrack Hussein Obama and he very close to the most powerful nations reigns. Invest in precious metals and survival training.
I was again searching the interwebs for some articles and opinions on various things and I came across this one, and it made my blood boil.
This was written by some nutbasket named Peter Dyer
What if we had never gone to war? What if, after the shocking crimes of September 11, 2001, the United States had pursued a different course?
What if all the blood which has been spilled in the name of justice still flowed in living veins; all the American, Iraqi and other lives shattered were still whole; all the homes destroyed or lost still standing, still occupied by families who never harmed us?
We have spent monumental treasure and energy on two wars. What if, instead, we had invested a fraction of that in a determined, unrelenting effort to bring Osama bin Laden to justice in a fair and transparent trial in a court of law?
Of course, we’ll never know.
When we were confronted with the most heinous series of terrorist acts in our history Americans overwhelmingly lined up behind President Bush’s call for a “Global War on Terror.”
We can only speculate on what might have been the result of a different course of action, guided by a fundamentally different vision.
For two reasons, though, such speculation would not be entirely baseless:
One week after the U.S. began bombing Afghanistan, the Taliban presented us with an opportunity to investigate the possibility of a peaceful, legal resolution to the crimes of 9/11.
On Oct. 14, 2001, Afghanistan’s deputy prime minister, Haji Abdul Kabir, announced that if the United States stopped the bombing and produced evidence of bin Laden’s guilt, “we would be ready to hand him over to a third country” for trial.
President Bush, determined to launch and pursue the “war on terror,” refused even to discuss, much less investigate this possibility.
* A different course
Exactly 30 months after 9/11 there was another catastrophic terrorist attack in another country: Spain. On March 11, 2004, 191 people in Madrid were killed and over 1,800 injured when 10 backpack bombs exploded on four morning rush-hour commuter trains.
As with 9/11, “11-M” was the most devastating series of terrorist acts in Spanish history.
But Spain chose the path the U.S. rejected.
The Spanish government addressed the crimes of 11-M with the tools, techniques and resources of law enforcement. There was an investigation, arrests, a trial, and appeals.
This process is today essentially complete.
Spain has demonstrated an effective alternative to war as a means of addressing and resolving the bloody horrors of terrorism.
The Spanish example can thus help us make an educated guess at how things might have gone had the Bush administration not immediately and contemptuously rejected Kabir’s offer of Oct. 14, 2001.
And while such an endeavor can’t undo the past seven years, perhaps it can help us make a better choice next time our leaders tell us it’s time for another war.
Here’s how Spain did it.
Two days after the bombings, the police made their first arrests.
After a 25-month investigation, 29 people – 15 Moroccans, nine Spaniards, two Syrians, one Egyptian, one Algerian and one Lebanese – were indicted on April 11, 2006. The Madrid bombing trial opened on Feb. 15, 2007, and ended on July 2.
Four months later, on Oct. 31, 2007, the three-judge tribunal delivered the verdicts.
Three men were convicted of murder, attempted murder and committing terrorist acts. They were sentenced to thousands of years in prison each, although under Spanish law, none will serve longer than 40 years. There is no capital punishment in Spain.
Eighteen were found guilty of lesser offenses. Seven were acquitted. During the trial all charges were dropped against one of the defendants.
0n July 18 of this year, four of the sentences were overturned on appeal to the Supreme Court. Thus, in the end, 17 out of the original 29 indicted have been convicted.
The Supreme Court also concluded that the real ringleaders of the crimes of 11-M were among seven suspects who, three weeks after the bombs exploded, blew themselves up in an apartment outside Madrid when a police assault began.
The U.S. experience and the Spanish experience are, of course, not identical. But there are arguably enough parallels to facilitate a comparison and enable some credible answers to the question: what if?
There is much more of this ridiculous comparison HERE
UNBELIEVABLE… Ok kiddies and folks with sensitivities to vulgarity you might want to bail now:
Still here? Ok last warning…….
Well Mr Dyer, you seem to be looking for some way to incite the Mulsim readers of that piece of shit rag al-jazeera. Let me help you out with a little history:
Beirut, USS Cole, Several airlines, and 2 US Embassies, WTC1 and WTC 2 9-11..
All of those crimes were committed by followers of Islam, based in ISLAMIC countries against the United States of America. Diplomacy yielded very little in the way of retribution for the atrocities, and there was no end in sight for the murder of innocents to stop. You say we should never have done anything but treat it as a crime? Are you fucking kidding me?
What Spain did was turn tail and run, rather than help to install some sort of “Other way” to the masses. I personally wish GWB would have nuked Mecca, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, on 9-12-01, I would have danced in the streets like YOUR READERS did on 9-11.
Hows this for a WHAT IF”
What if the Redneck Mafia decided to DESTROY MECCA during the pilgrimage? Would it be a crime, should it be handled by strictly law enforcement? I think your readers would agree that it would be an act of war… but that would be wrong huh?
I find it hilarious that you would assume that the Taliban would turn over UBL, or that they would help in the hunt for UBL… UBL is not the only problem, Islam is. Your readers are, and idiots like you are.
I suppose the recent bombing in Pakistan is of no concern to you based on your logic, we should not treat that as an attack but just a law enforcement issue? We are at war and personally I think every fucking dead Muslim is one less problem the world has to deal with. I think that entire religion should be wiped off the map I think the US Armed forces are doing a tremendous job of sending Muslim radical fuckheads to meet that pedophile fucknozzle Muhammad.
You might get your wish too Peter Dyer, if Barrack Hussein Obama takes the reins in America, you will see a “Spain like” response, I imagine we will surrender faster than you drop to your knees 5 times a day. (Maybe 6 depending on which Sheik you are blowing)
I would like to remind my readers and friends that I spoke about where things were going when McCain pulled even with the “Chosen one”. Like I said, it is going to get worse… Al-Qaeda wants Obama to win, Al-Jazeera readers want Obama to win, France, Russia, China, North Korea, Mexico, Venezuela ALL want Obama to win this election for a reason. It is not economic. IT is their best chance at getting a surrender at all cost leader in charge, and in Al-Qaeda’s case the ONLY chance of claiming victory.
All Muslims should have to drive Volkswagons…. :rotflmao:
