A piece of news currently making its way around the tubes concerns the arrest of 19 year old Mohamed Osman Mohamud of Corvallis, Oregon after he attempted to blow up a Christmas tree festival. Some details from this article:
The indictment stems from a 15-month undercover investigation in which federal agents posed as Islamic militants willing to conduct indiscriminate terror attacks within the US.
The U.S. government encouraged the behavior for 15 months.
Between July 2010 and Nov. 26, the undercover agents met eight times with Mohamud to plan a car bomb attack in downtown Portland.
Awesome.
... the agents directed Mohamud to purchase what they said would be components of the bomb. He spent roughly $110 of FBI money at a Radio Shack.
Awesome.
Mohamud was also given $2,700 to rent an apartment...
Awesome.
The agents also arranged for Mohamud to engage in a dry run on detonation of the bomb. They took him to a remote location and told him to dial a cell phone number. Explosive experts staged an explosion to give Mohamud the feeling that he could actually detonate the car bomb.
Awesome.
Agents carried the plot all the way to streets of Portland with a fake bomb in a van, parked at a location selected by Mohamud. After he used the cell phone to attempt to detonate what he believed was a bomb, agents placed him under arrest.
BOOYAH! We got the bad guy! The 19 year old disgruntled kid is undoubtedly a mean person. He says,
Do you remember when 9/11 happened when those people were jumping from skyscrapers.… I thought that was awesome
and
I want whoever is attending that [Christmas tree] event to leave … either dead or injured.
But the government fostered those issues into what he is today... a piece of PR for the war on terror.
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