Somali-born teen plotted car-bombing in Ore.
- Thread starter Rasp
- Start date
Jeronimus
Registered
Excellent news! I was in a movie called "The Letter" where it shows me as "one of the bad guys" warning people in Maine that the Somali "community" harbors a lot of Al Qaeda terrorists.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383460/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBKgSIQhHZ8
Of course we were dismissed as "evil racists" and all the local politicians and businessmen who wanted to rub shoulders with them had a "counter event" across town to denounce us. In the movie, my speech is juxtaposed with the Governor of Maine no less.
The Smellies were also running an underaged, forced sex trafficking ring. Real desirable immigrants, eh? Lets import more pimps of underage girls and car bomb makers! Diversity is our strength!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383460/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBKgSIQhHZ8
Of course we were dismissed as "evil racists" and all the local politicians and businessmen who wanted to rub shoulders with them had a "counter event" across town to denounce us. In the movie, my speech is juxtaposed with the Governor of Maine no less.
The Smellies were also running an underaged, forced sex trafficking ring. Real desirable immigrants, eh? Lets import more pimps of underage girls and car bomb makers! Diversity is our strength!
Earl Turner
Registered
@ Jeronimus: You should embed videos from Youtube in your posts in the future instead of just posting the links to them. The option appears after you click on the "Go Advanced" button. When done right, it will look like this:
Rasp
Senior Editor
Smedley Butler
Senior Reporter
rth:
vorlos
Junior News Editor
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/28/ore-fire-raises-muslims-fears-of-attack-backlash/
Ore. fire raises Muslims' fears of attack backlash
CORVALLIS, Ore. — Someone set fire to an Islamic center on Sunday, two days after a man who worshipped there was accused of trying to blow up a van full of explosives during Portland's Christmas tree lighting ceremony. Other Muslims fear it could be the first volley of misplaced retribution. (ARE OREGONEANS FINALLY GROWING CHERRIES?)
The charges against Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a Somali-born 19-year-old who was caught in a federal sting operation, are testing tolerance in a state that has been largely accepting of Muslims. Muslims who know the suspect say they are shocked by the allegations against him and that he had given them no hint of falling into radicalism.
The fire at the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center in Corvallis was reported at 2:15 a.m., and evidence at the scene led authorities believe it was set intentionally, said Carla Pusateri, a fire prevention officer for the Corvallis Fire Department. (A MOSQUE IN CORVALLIS? THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING).
Authorities don't know who started the blaze or exactly why, but they believe the center was targeted because Mohamud occasionally worshipped there.
"We have made it quite clear that the FBI will not tolerate any kind of retribution or attack on the Muslim community," said Arthur Balizan, special agent in charge of the FBI in Oregon.
Mohamud was being held on charges of plotting to carry out a terror attack Friday on a crowd of thousands at Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square. He is scheduled to appear in court on Monday, and it wasn't clear if he had a lawyer yet.
On Friday, he parked what he thought was a bomb-laden van near the ceremony and then went to a nearby train station, where he dialed a cell phone that he believed would detonate the vehicle, federal authorities said. Instead, federal authorities moved in and arrested him. No one was hurt.
There were also no injuries in Sunday's fire, which burned 80 percent of the center's office but did not spread to worship areas or any other rooms, said Yosof Wanly, the center's imam.
After daybreak, members gathered at the center, where a broken window had been boarded up.
"I've prayed for my family and friends, because obviously if someone was deliberate enough to do this, what's to stop them from coming to our homes and our schools?" said Mohamed Alyagouri, a 31-year-old father of two who worships at the center. "I'm afraid for my children getting harassed from their teachers, maybe from their friends."
Wanly said he was thinking about temporarily relocating his family because of the possibility of hate crimes.
"We know how it is, we know some people due to ignorance are going to perceive of these things and hold most Muslims accountable," Wanly said. "We do what we can, but it's a tough situation."
The imam said Corvallis, a college town about 75 miles southwest of Portland, has long been accepting of Muslims.
"The common scene here is to be very friendly, accepting various cultures and religions," Wanly said. "The Islamic center has been here for 40 years, it's more American than most Americans with regards to age."
In Portland, residents are alarmed by the terror plot, but Mayor Sam Adams said they are "not going to let this change our values of being an open and embracing city." He said that he beefed up patrols around mosques "and other facilities that might be vulnerable to knuckle-headed retribution" after hearing of the bomb plot.
The FBI was working closely with leadership at the Corvallis center as agents investigated the fire, Balizan said. A $10,000 reward was offered for information leading to an arrest.
Authorities have not explained how Mohamud, an Oregon State University student until he dropped out on Oct. 6, became so radicalized. Mohamud graduated from high school in the Portland suburb of Beaverton, although few details of his time there were available Saturday.
Wanly described him as a normal student who went to athletic events, drank an occasional beer and was into rap music and culture. He described Mohamud as religious, saying he attended prayers in Corvallis once or twice a month over a year and a half.
Wanly, 24, said that in about 15 conversations he had with Mohamud, the teen rarely discussed religion. He said that may have been because Mohamud knew his extremist views wouldn't be tolerated, and suggested that Mohamud was influenced by radical teaching he read on the Internet. (UH. HUH. SURE. THE INTERNET. THAT'S IT)
"If a person has a type of agenda, he can find anything he wants on the Internet and block out everything else," Wanly said.
In the days leading up to his arrest, Mohamud's friends thought he appeared on edge, Wanly said.
"He seemed to be in a state of confusion," Wanly said. "He would say things that weren't true. He'd say 'I'm going to go get married,' for example. He wasn't going to go get married."
Mohamud is among tens of thousands of Somalis who have resettled in the United States since their country plunged into lawlessness in 1991. The U.N.-backed government controls only a few blocks of Mogadishu, the capital, while large parts of Somalia are controlled by the insurgent group Al-Shabab, which vows allegiance to al-Qaida.
Omar Jamal, first secretary for the Somali mission to the United Nations in New York City, told The Associated Press his office has received "thousands of calls" from Somalis in the United States who are concerned about tactics used by federal agents in the sting operation against Mohamud.
Jamal said there is concern in the Somali community that Mohamud was "lured into an illegal act."
"Rest assured that the community is very against anyone who tries to do harm to the citizens of this country," Jamal said in a phone call.
But many Somalis in the United States are wondering whether Mohamud's "rights have been violated" by federal agents in the sting operation, he said. "What did they tell him to go along with this heinous crime?" Jamal said.
An FBI affidavit said it was Mohamud who picked the target of the bomb plot, that he was warned several times about the seriousness of his plan, that women and children could die, and that he could back out.
Officials said Mohamud had no formal ties to foreign terror groups, although he had reached out to suspected terrorists in Pakistan.
FBI agents say they began investigating after receiving a tip from an unidentified person who expressed concern about Mohamud. This summer an agent e-mailed Mohamud, pretending to be affiliated with an "unindicted associate" whom Mohamud had tried to contact.
Agents had some face-to-face meetings with Mohamud. On Nov. 4, in the backcountry along Oregon's coast, they convinced him that he was testing an explosive device - although the explosion was controlled by agents rather than the youth.
On Friday, an agent and Mohamud drove into downtown Portland to the white van that carried six 55-gallon drums with detonation cords and plastic caps, but all of them were inert.
Authorities said they allowed the plot to proceed to obtain evidence to charge the suspect with plotting to carrying out the attack.
Ahson Saeed, of Corvallis, Ore., reacts over a pile of burnt debris pulled from a local mosque in Corvallis, Ore. Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010 where an alleged arsonist set a fire in the early morning hours. Anger on Sunday over a Somali-born teen's failed plan to blow up a van full of explosives during Portland's Christmas tree lighting ceremony apparently erupted in arson on Sunday when a fire damaged the Islamic center once frequented by the suspect. Police don't know who started the blaze or exactly why, but they believe the mosque was targeted because terror suspect Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, occasionally worshipped there.
Imam Yosof Wanly, of the Salman Al-Farisi Center, is interviewed in the center in Corvallis, Ore. on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, who allegedly planned a bombing in Portland, Ore. during Friday's Christmas tree lighting ceremony, attended this center.
Alexavia Plato, left, 3, and Riley O'Neill, 3, both of Portland, pose for a photograph in front of the Christmas tree in Pioneer Square in Portland, Ore. on Saturday Nov. 27, 2010, the evening after an unsuccessful car bomb plot during the annual tree lighting ceremony.
(PREPARE TO SAY GOODBYE TO THESE KIDS. THESE ARE THE LAST DAYS FOR THEM AND THEIR SOCIETY. THERE IS NO ONE LEFTTO SAVE IT FOR THEM).
The Salman Al-Farisi Islamic Center is shown following the fire set by an alleged arsonist in the early morning hours of Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010 in Corvallis, Ore.
(NOT CORVALLIS. MY GRANDPARENTS REST THERE. THERE NEVER WAS A MORE AMERICAN TOWN TO GROW UP IN. A MOSQUE. IMPOSSIBLE).
OUR COMMON DEATH KNELL: "The common scene here is to be very friendly, accepting various cultures and religions," Wanly said. "The Islamic center has been here for 40 years, it's more American than most Americans with regards to age."
Ore. fire raises Muslims' fears of attack backlash
CORVALLIS, Ore. — Someone set fire to an Islamic center on Sunday, two days after a man who worshipped there was accused of trying to blow up a van full of explosives during Portland's Christmas tree lighting ceremony. Other Muslims fear it could be the first volley of misplaced retribution. (ARE OREGONEANS FINALLY GROWING CHERRIES?)
The charges against Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a Somali-born 19-year-old who was caught in a federal sting operation, are testing tolerance in a state that has been largely accepting of Muslims. Muslims who know the suspect say they are shocked by the allegations against him and that he had given them no hint of falling into radicalism.
The fire at the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center in Corvallis was reported at 2:15 a.m., and evidence at the scene led authorities believe it was set intentionally, said Carla Pusateri, a fire prevention officer for the Corvallis Fire Department. (A MOSQUE IN CORVALLIS? THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING).
Authorities don't know who started the blaze or exactly why, but they believe the center was targeted because Mohamud occasionally worshipped there.
"We have made it quite clear that the FBI will not tolerate any kind of retribution or attack on the Muslim community," said Arthur Balizan, special agent in charge of the FBI in Oregon.
Mohamud was being held on charges of plotting to carry out a terror attack Friday on a crowd of thousands at Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square. He is scheduled to appear in court on Monday, and it wasn't clear if he had a lawyer yet.
On Friday, he parked what he thought was a bomb-laden van near the ceremony and then went to a nearby train station, where he dialed a cell phone that he believed would detonate the vehicle, federal authorities said. Instead, federal authorities moved in and arrested him. No one was hurt.
There were also no injuries in Sunday's fire, which burned 80 percent of the center's office but did not spread to worship areas or any other rooms, said Yosof Wanly, the center's imam.
After daybreak, members gathered at the center, where a broken window had been boarded up.
"I've prayed for my family and friends, because obviously if someone was deliberate enough to do this, what's to stop them from coming to our homes and our schools?" said Mohamed Alyagouri, a 31-year-old father of two who worships at the center. "I'm afraid for my children getting harassed from their teachers, maybe from their friends."
Wanly said he was thinking about temporarily relocating his family because of the possibility of hate crimes.
"We know how it is, we know some people due to ignorance are going to perceive of these things and hold most Muslims accountable," Wanly said. "We do what we can, but it's a tough situation."
The imam said Corvallis, a college town about 75 miles southwest of Portland, has long been accepting of Muslims.
"The common scene here is to be very friendly, accepting various cultures and religions," Wanly said. "The Islamic center has been here for 40 years, it's more American than most Americans with regards to age."
In Portland, residents are alarmed by the terror plot, but Mayor Sam Adams said they are "not going to let this change our values of being an open and embracing city." He said that he beefed up patrols around mosques "and other facilities that might be vulnerable to knuckle-headed retribution" after hearing of the bomb plot.
The FBI was working closely with leadership at the Corvallis center as agents investigated the fire, Balizan said. A $10,000 reward was offered for information leading to an arrest.
Authorities have not explained how Mohamud, an Oregon State University student until he dropped out on Oct. 6, became so radicalized. Mohamud graduated from high school in the Portland suburb of Beaverton, although few details of his time there were available Saturday.
Wanly described him as a normal student who went to athletic events, drank an occasional beer and was into rap music and culture. He described Mohamud as religious, saying he attended prayers in Corvallis once or twice a month over a year and a half.
Wanly, 24, said that in about 15 conversations he had with Mohamud, the teen rarely discussed religion. He said that may have been because Mohamud knew his extremist views wouldn't be tolerated, and suggested that Mohamud was influenced by radical teaching he read on the Internet. (UH. HUH. SURE. THE INTERNET. THAT'S IT)
"If a person has a type of agenda, he can find anything he wants on the Internet and block out everything else," Wanly said.
In the days leading up to his arrest, Mohamud's friends thought he appeared on edge, Wanly said.
"He seemed to be in a state of confusion," Wanly said. "He would say things that weren't true. He'd say 'I'm going to go get married,' for example. He wasn't going to go get married."
Mohamud is among tens of thousands of Somalis who have resettled in the United States since their country plunged into lawlessness in 1991. The U.N.-backed government controls only a few blocks of Mogadishu, the capital, while large parts of Somalia are controlled by the insurgent group Al-Shabab, which vows allegiance to al-Qaida.
Omar Jamal, first secretary for the Somali mission to the United Nations in New York City, told The Associated Press his office has received "thousands of calls" from Somalis in the United States who are concerned about tactics used by federal agents in the sting operation against Mohamud.
Jamal said there is concern in the Somali community that Mohamud was "lured into an illegal act."
"Rest assured that the community is very against anyone who tries to do harm to the citizens of this country," Jamal said in a phone call.
But many Somalis in the United States are wondering whether Mohamud's "rights have been violated" by federal agents in the sting operation, he said. "What did they tell him to go along with this heinous crime?" Jamal said.
An FBI affidavit said it was Mohamud who picked the target of the bomb plot, that he was warned several times about the seriousness of his plan, that women and children could die, and that he could back out.
Officials said Mohamud had no formal ties to foreign terror groups, although he had reached out to suspected terrorists in Pakistan.
FBI agents say they began investigating after receiving a tip from an unidentified person who expressed concern about Mohamud. This summer an agent e-mailed Mohamud, pretending to be affiliated with an "unindicted associate" whom Mohamud had tried to contact.
Agents had some face-to-face meetings with Mohamud. On Nov. 4, in the backcountry along Oregon's coast, they convinced him that he was testing an explosive device - although the explosion was controlled by agents rather than the youth.
On Friday, an agent and Mohamud drove into downtown Portland to the white van that carried six 55-gallon drums with detonation cords and plastic caps, but all of them were inert.
Authorities said they allowed the plot to proceed to obtain evidence to charge the suspect with plotting to carrying out the attack.
Ahson Saeed, of Corvallis, Ore., reacts over a pile of burnt debris pulled from a local mosque in Corvallis, Ore. Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010 where an alleged arsonist set a fire in the early morning hours. Anger on Sunday over a Somali-born teen's failed plan to blow up a van full of explosives during Portland's Christmas tree lighting ceremony apparently erupted in arson on Sunday when a fire damaged the Islamic center once frequented by the suspect. Police don't know who started the blaze or exactly why, but they believe the mosque was targeted because terror suspect Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, occasionally worshipped there.
Imam Yosof Wanly, of the Salman Al-Farisi Center, is interviewed in the center in Corvallis, Ore. on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, who allegedly planned a bombing in Portland, Ore. during Friday's Christmas tree lighting ceremony, attended this center.
Alexavia Plato, left, 3, and Riley O'Neill, 3, both of Portland, pose for a photograph in front of the Christmas tree in Pioneer Square in Portland, Ore. on Saturday Nov. 27, 2010, the evening after an unsuccessful car bomb plot during the annual tree lighting ceremony.
(PREPARE TO SAY GOODBYE TO THESE KIDS. THESE ARE THE LAST DAYS FOR THEM AND THEIR SOCIETY. THERE IS NO ONE LEFTTO SAVE IT FOR THEM).
The Salman Al-Farisi Islamic Center is shown following the fire set by an alleged arsonist in the early morning hours of Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010 in Corvallis, Ore.
(NOT CORVALLIS. MY GRANDPARENTS REST THERE. THERE NEVER WAS A MORE AMERICAN TOWN TO GROW UP IN. A MOSQUE. IMPOSSIBLE).
OUR COMMON DEATH KNELL: "The common scene here is to be very friendly, accepting various cultures and religions," Wanly said. "The Islamic center has been here for 40 years, it's more American than most Americans with regards to age."
Smedley Butler
Senior Reporter
Vorlos excellent post, thank you.
A ex govenor who gave up his Law License because of sex in with a 14 year old also happened to have grown up in this town. This ex Gov. also helped bring in radical black marxists in around the 1964 period after going to Mississippi etc. The White girls in the N.W. back then were Especially Naive.
The sports teams at OSU and U of O are responsible for a hell of allot White rape IMO.
Dr. Pierce was a Tenured PhD teaching Chemistry when he decided to quit and as could see in the early 70's what the hell was going on with the anti War movement on campus.
By the WAY you don't see any ANTI war stuff today, oh no.
Four Blocks from the Down Town Beautiful Christchurch NZ Cathederal is a Mosque.
That Cathederal built by White Christians who arrived by ships and made a Western home out of nothing by conquering and putting down Vicious Head Hunters by force and courage.
By 2004 there were 40,000 Islamic's and mosque in downtown Christchurch.
Today N.Z. Whites have to deal with African refugees who attack Pilots flying, and thrown Hot coffee in Guards faces etc.
The patriotards yak about the Islamo etc.'s like good Savage AM radio fan's, but would you patriotards please Understand Who it is that OPENED Our borders to let them in ? Hmmm?
P.S. Vorlos, on reflection I don't believe a White did the fire unless and until it is proved. It was one of the Islmamists them selves looking to get sympathy, a joo, or even a Mexican.
IMO Whites living near a campus like that, that IMO would even try to that would not live there. I could be wrong of course. If a White would have risk his limited freedom to commit that act, I would like to believe he would have Burnt the place down completely Not a Half ass job. Notice the prayer area If I read the news correctly is UN touched.
Like Most hate crimes they are faked and committed by the supposed victims.
Believe it.
Again your post was important as to it IMO could start a brainwashed Kwan to maybe THINK.
A ex govenor who gave up his Law License because of sex in with a 14 year old also happened to have grown up in this town. This ex Gov. also helped bring in radical black marxists in around the 1964 period after going to Mississippi etc. The White girls in the N.W. back then were Especially Naive.
The sports teams at OSU and U of O are responsible for a hell of allot White rape IMO.
Dr. Pierce was a Tenured PhD teaching Chemistry when he decided to quit and as could see in the early 70's what the hell was going on with the anti War movement on campus.
By the WAY you don't see any ANTI war stuff today, oh no.
Four Blocks from the Down Town Beautiful Christchurch NZ Cathederal is a Mosque.
That Cathederal built by White Christians who arrived by ships and made a Western home out of nothing by conquering and putting down Vicious Head Hunters by force and courage.
By 2004 there were 40,000 Islamic's and mosque in downtown Christchurch.
Today N.Z. Whites have to deal with African refugees who attack Pilots flying, and thrown Hot coffee in Guards faces etc.
The patriotards yak about the Islamo etc.'s like good Savage AM radio fan's, but would you patriotards please Understand Who it is that OPENED Our borders to let them in ? Hmmm?
P.S. Vorlos, on reflection I don't believe a White did the fire unless and until it is proved. It was one of the Islmamists them selves looking to get sympathy, a joo, or even a Mexican.
IMO Whites living near a campus like that, that IMO would even try to that would not live there. I could be wrong of course. If a White would have risk his limited freedom to commit that act, I would like to believe he would have Burnt the place down completely Not a Half ass job. Notice the prayer area If I read the news correctly is UN touched.
Like Most hate crimes they are faked and committed by the supposed victims.
Believe it.
Again your post was important as to it IMO could start a brainwashed Kwan to maybe THINK.
vorlos
Junior News Editor
http://www.vdare.com/
From the VDARE Blog: Would-Be Portland Bomber Hated Americans in High School
By Brenda Walker
On Friday, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a naturalized citizen who was born in Somalia, dialed a cell-phone number he thought would detonate a car bomb in the midst of Portland’s festive Christmas-tree-lighting ceremony and kill dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Americans.
Fortunately, the FBI had interceded into his terror plot and gave him a fake car bomb. When a supposed confederate remarked that the event would include many children, Mohamud responded, “Yeah, I mean, that’s what I’m looking for.”��
Mohamud came from Somalia as a school-aged boy, but he didn’t seem to like his new home much, at least by high school, where he decided at age 15 that he wanted to pursue jihad. He is another example of how Muslim immigration is a very bad idea and should stop.
Details emerge about Mohamud, Westview / OSU student, KGW News Channel 8 Portland, November 27, 2010
PORTLAND, Ore. — Mohamed Osman Mohamud, the suspect in Friday night’s plot to explode a car-bomb during Portland’s Christmas tree lighting celebration, is a naturalized American citizen who was born in Somalia in 1991.
During elementary school, Mohamud moved 9,000 miles from the war-torn streets of Mogadishu to the suburbs of Portland.
He graduated from Westview High School in 2009 and then enrolled at Oregon State University.
Westview classmates told KGW he often joked about being a terrorist, but no one took him seriously.
A classmate who didn’t want to be identified remembered Mohamud’s odd choice for a physics project. Mohamud detailed how a rocket-propelled grenade worked.
“It was just weird about how someone would choose that, you know,”�� the classmate said.
In an affidavit obtained by KGW, Mohamud recently told the FBI he had been thinking of committing some form of violent jihad since the age of 15.
Another of Mohamud’s former classmates remembered a fight the two had over a messy locker. “The main thing was, the way he said he hated Americans,”�� said Andy Stull. “It was serious. He looked me in the eye and had this look in his eye, like it was his determination in life – ”�’I hate Americans!’”�� (AMERICANS, ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH CHILDREN - NOTE AND REMEMBER THIS - IN PARTICULAR REMEMBER THE UTAH MALL MASSACRE, ANOTHER MORLOCK WHO HATED AMERICANS)
Stull says he was scared enough at the time to get school counselors involved, but that was the end of it.
In the fall of 2009, Mohamud started his freshman year at O.S.U. He took classes part-time, with a focus on engineering.
He also attended the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center near campus. His Imam told KGW Mohamud did not voice any radical views. The Iman said Mohamud grew reclusive recently, and described the teen as “relaxed”�� in his religious practice.
“I had to say he did a number of things against the religion. He had a lifestyle that was against the religion. I can’t really say that he was in a position to represent Islam,”�� said Imam Yousef Wanly.
In possibly related news, the mosque Mohamud attended was hit by arson early Sunday morning. The act may be seen as a hate crime by some, although the fire was set in the mosque’s office, not its worship area. Who ever commits an anti-religion hate crime by setting the office on fire? It just seems unlikely.
Perhaps the mosque leaders set the fire to kill two birds with one stone: get rid of unpleasant evidence and portray themselves as victims.
Hate crime hoaxes are actually quite common, so it’s not crazy to consider that possibility. (A TRIBUTE TO SMEDLEY BUTLER HERE)
Update: Fire was intentionally set at Islamic Center in Corvallis where alleged bomb plot suspect attended, The Oregonian, November 28, 2010
The fire was contained to one room in the mosque, an office, which was 80 percent damaged and there were no injuries. It took firefighters about 10 minutes to put out the fire.
From the VDARE Blog: Would-Be Portland Bomber Hated Americans in High School
By Brenda Walker
On Friday, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a naturalized citizen who was born in Somalia, dialed a cell-phone number he thought would detonate a car bomb in the midst of Portland’s festive Christmas-tree-lighting ceremony and kill dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Americans.
Fortunately, the FBI had interceded into his terror plot and gave him a fake car bomb. When a supposed confederate remarked that the event would include many children, Mohamud responded, “Yeah, I mean, that’s what I’m looking for.”��
Mohamud came from Somalia as a school-aged boy, but he didn’t seem to like his new home much, at least by high school, where he decided at age 15 that he wanted to pursue jihad. He is another example of how Muslim immigration is a very bad idea and should stop.
Details emerge about Mohamud, Westview / OSU student, KGW News Channel 8 Portland, November 27, 2010
PORTLAND, Ore. — Mohamed Osman Mohamud, the suspect in Friday night’s plot to explode a car-bomb during Portland’s Christmas tree lighting celebration, is a naturalized American citizen who was born in Somalia in 1991.
During elementary school, Mohamud moved 9,000 miles from the war-torn streets of Mogadishu to the suburbs of Portland.
He graduated from Westview High School in 2009 and then enrolled at Oregon State University.
Westview classmates told KGW he often joked about being a terrorist, but no one took him seriously.
A classmate who didn’t want to be identified remembered Mohamud’s odd choice for a physics project. Mohamud detailed how a rocket-propelled grenade worked.
“It was just weird about how someone would choose that, you know,”�� the classmate said.
In an affidavit obtained by KGW, Mohamud recently told the FBI he had been thinking of committing some form of violent jihad since the age of 15.
Another of Mohamud’s former classmates remembered a fight the two had over a messy locker. “The main thing was, the way he said he hated Americans,”�� said Andy Stull. “It was serious. He looked me in the eye and had this look in his eye, like it was his determination in life – ”�’I hate Americans!’”�� (AMERICANS, ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH CHILDREN - NOTE AND REMEMBER THIS - IN PARTICULAR REMEMBER THE UTAH MALL MASSACRE, ANOTHER MORLOCK WHO HATED AMERICANS)
Stull says he was scared enough at the time to get school counselors involved, but that was the end of it.
In the fall of 2009, Mohamud started his freshman year at O.S.U. He took classes part-time, with a focus on engineering.
He also attended the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center near campus. His Imam told KGW Mohamud did not voice any radical views. The Iman said Mohamud grew reclusive recently, and described the teen as “relaxed”�� in his religious practice.
“I had to say he did a number of things against the religion. He had a lifestyle that was against the religion. I can’t really say that he was in a position to represent Islam,”�� said Imam Yousef Wanly.
In possibly related news, the mosque Mohamud attended was hit by arson early Sunday morning. The act may be seen as a hate crime by some, although the fire was set in the mosque’s office, not its worship area. Who ever commits an anti-religion hate crime by setting the office on fire? It just seems unlikely.
Perhaps the mosque leaders set the fire to kill two birds with one stone: get rid of unpleasant evidence and portray themselves as victims.
Hate crime hoaxes are actually quite common, so it’s not crazy to consider that possibility. (A TRIBUTE TO SMEDLEY BUTLER HERE)
Update: Fire was intentionally set at Islamic Center in Corvallis where alleged bomb plot suspect attended, The Oregonian, November 28, 2010
The fire was contained to one room in the mosque, an office, which was 80 percent damaged and there were no injuries. It took firefighters about 10 minutes to put out the fire.
vorlos
Junior News Editor
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_portland_car_bomb_plot
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The fire at an Islamic center where the man accused of plotting a bombing in Portland sometimes worshipped appears to have been started by someone who broke an office window and tossed a container of flammable liquid inside, police said Tuesday.
Corvallis police Capt. Jonathan Sassaman told The Associated Press the window to the center's office was not broken enough for someone to enter, and the fire inside burned hot enough to melt many items.
Sassaman said evidence — including the entire window — has been shipped to the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Va., in hopes of finding fingerprints, DNA and identifying the type of flammable liquid that was used.
"Certainly it spread in the room," Sassaman said of the liquid. "Lots of items were melted."
The Sunday fire burned about 80 percent of an office at the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center, where Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, sometimes worshipped while he was a student at Oregon State University.
"It's not a drive-by." Sassaman said of the fire, which came two days after Mohamud's arrest. "They broke a window, then tossed an accelerant inside."
Mohamud has pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction in an alleged plot to set off a car bomb last Friday in downtown Portland while thousands of people were gathered for the lighting of the Christmas Tree in Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Sassaman said whoever set the fire would have had to drive around to the back of the building, then walk past the mosque entrance to the office window. No footprints were found below the window.
"You'd have to know what you're doing," he said.
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The fire at an Islamic center where the man accused of plotting a bombing in Portland sometimes worshipped appears to have been started by someone who broke an office window and tossed a container of flammable liquid inside, police said Tuesday.
Corvallis police Capt. Jonathan Sassaman told The Associated Press the window to the center's office was not broken enough for someone to enter, and the fire inside burned hot enough to melt many items.
Sassaman said evidence — including the entire window — has been shipped to the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Va., in hopes of finding fingerprints, DNA and identifying the type of flammable liquid that was used.
"Certainly it spread in the room," Sassaman said of the liquid. "Lots of items were melted."
The Sunday fire burned about 80 percent of an office at the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center, where Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, sometimes worshipped while he was a student at Oregon State University.
"It's not a drive-by." Sassaman said of the fire, which came two days after Mohamud's arrest. "They broke a window, then tossed an accelerant inside."
Mohamud has pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction in an alleged plot to set off a car bomb last Friday in downtown Portland while thousands of people were gathered for the lighting of the Christmas Tree in Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Sassaman said whoever set the fire would have had to drive around to the back of the building, then walk past the mosque entrance to the office window. No footprints were found below the window.
"You'd have to know what you're doing," he said.
Taylor
Registered
Blonde Hair, Blue Eyed, "Christian" Bombs Mosque in Oregon
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/25/oregon-man-charged-with-hate-crime-for-arson-at-mosque/
Feds: Man Charged for Arson at Mosque Racially Motivated
August 25, 2011
Associated Press
This Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010 file photo shows Cody Crawford in Corvallis, Ore.
EUGENE – Federal officials arrested a 24-year-old man on charges of firebombing an Oregon mosque last year and said he was motivated by racial hatred following the arrest of a Muslim man accused of plotting to set off a car bomb in Portland.
Cody Crawford, who has been under investigation since the Corvallis mosque was torched Nov. 28, was arrested Wednesday night at a home in the nearby town Monmouth. Officials said he did not resist arrest.
Crawford was indicted on charges of damaging religious property for racial reasons, which is a hate crime, and using fire to commit a felony.
"This was an attack on religious freedom and an attack on the American way of life," said Dwight Holton, U.S. attorney for Oregon.
The mosque firebombing occurred just two days after FBI agents arrested a Somali-American, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, in a sting operation at Portland's annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony. Mohamud was charged with plotting to kill people at the ceremony by igniting a car bomb.
Mohamud had occasionally worshipped at the Corvallis mosque.
The mosque's office burned, but nobody was hurt.
Crawford appeared briefly in court Thursday and was ordered held in jail while legal proceedings go forward. He did not enter a plea.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Bud Fitzgerald said Crawford has bipolar disorder and is an alcoholic -- and would be a flight risk if released.
Court documents show that three weeks after the mosque firebombing, in unrelated encounters with police, Crawford ranted about Muslims, said Christians are capable of jihad and told an officer he resembled President Barack Obama.
"You look like Obama. You are a Muslim like him. Jihad goes both ways. Christians can jihad too," a court document quotes Crawford as telling a McMinnville officer Dec. 14.
The document says Crawford told officers "only Christians could understand him, that he was a Christian warrior that they were persecuting," and that "you will never know the truth about the mosque."
Crawford also said he did not torch the mosque, according to the affidavit.
Crawford had been arrested Dec. 14 after causing a disturbance at a gas station by shining a flashlight at a car, "talking about terrorists and Muslims," and telling a witness he would "come back and kill you if you call the cops," according to the document.
Crawford was arrested again Dec. 16, this time in Corvallis, for waving a knife around in his front yard, authorities said. He was taken to a local hospital for a mental evaluation, where he told a detective, "If you believe in jihad, you're working for the wrong God. You're a jihadist."
Crawford also said, "Muslims are cool. Jihadists are not."
Law enforcement officers began looking at Crawford as a possible suspect in the firebombing early in the investigation.
Federal and local officials questioned people living in the neighborhood, including Crawford, who was living with his mother and sister. When officers showed Crawford a blue Maglite flashlight they had found outside the mosque, Crawford told them it looked like his.
In a search of his house, police and the FBI took DNA samples and seized computers, digital camera equipment, a gas can and other evidence.
According to the court document, lab tests showed Crawford is a "potential major contributor" of DNA on the flashlight found near the mosque.
As they analyzed Crawford's computer, investigators found that in a Facebook update the day after the FBI sting, Crawford wrote he had seen Mohamud at the Corvallis mosque.
"That guy on the news used to go to the mosque that is right in frnt (sic) of my house," the Facebook post read, according to the court document.
On Nov. 27 and 28 Crawford conducted numerous Internet searches for news articles about the Portland bomb plot, the affidavit states.
After his house was searched last year, neighbors described Crawford as a sweet young man who loved going to the local community college and was a good dad to his 4-year-old boy.
But Crawford has had frequent run-ins with police. In years past he has been accused of assault, breaking a window when he was in jail, throwing a cup of urine at a deputy, dealing drugs, burglary, criminal trespassing and other crimes.
Even Crawford's relatives have expressed worry about his behavior. After he was thrown into a county jail in 2009, his sister told a sheriff's deputy he was "delusional," that he "had not been himself lately" and that he said he worked with the CIA, according to a sheriff's office report.
His mother said last year that Crawford has been diagnosed with high-functioning autism. She declined to comment when reached on her cell phone Thursday.
In an interview with The Associated Press last December, Crawford said he is "100 percent innocent" of the mosque firebombing, that he's a peaceful person and that he does not dislike Muslims.
"They're all just normal people. We are all people," Crawford said at the time.
If convicted on both counts, Crawford faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison, and a maximum of 30 years.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/25/oregon-man-charged-with-hate-crime-for-arson-at-mosque/
Feds: Man Charged for Arson at Mosque Racially Motivated
August 25, 2011
Associated Press
This Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010 file photo shows Cody Crawford in Corvallis, Ore.
EUGENE – Federal officials arrested a 24-year-old man on charges of firebombing an Oregon mosque last year and said he was motivated by racial hatred following the arrest of a Muslim man accused of plotting to set off a car bomb in Portland.
Cody Crawford, who has been under investigation since the Corvallis mosque was torched Nov. 28, was arrested Wednesday night at a home in the nearby town Monmouth. Officials said he did not resist arrest.
Crawford was indicted on charges of damaging religious property for racial reasons, which is a hate crime, and using fire to commit a felony.
"This was an attack on religious freedom and an attack on the American way of life," said Dwight Holton, U.S. attorney for Oregon.
The mosque firebombing occurred just two days after FBI agents arrested a Somali-American, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, in a sting operation at Portland's annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony. Mohamud was charged with plotting to kill people at the ceremony by igniting a car bomb.
Mohamud had occasionally worshipped at the Corvallis mosque.
The mosque's office burned, but nobody was hurt.
Crawford appeared briefly in court Thursday and was ordered held in jail while legal proceedings go forward. He did not enter a plea.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Bud Fitzgerald said Crawford has bipolar disorder and is an alcoholic -- and would be a flight risk if released.
Court documents show that three weeks after the mosque firebombing, in unrelated encounters with police, Crawford ranted about Muslims, said Christians are capable of jihad and told an officer he resembled President Barack Obama.
"You look like Obama. You are a Muslim like him. Jihad goes both ways. Christians can jihad too," a court document quotes Crawford as telling a McMinnville officer Dec. 14.
The document says Crawford told officers "only Christians could understand him, that he was a Christian warrior that they were persecuting," and that "you will never know the truth about the mosque."
Crawford also said he did not torch the mosque, according to the affidavit.
Crawford had been arrested Dec. 14 after causing a disturbance at a gas station by shining a flashlight at a car, "talking about terrorists and Muslims," and telling a witness he would "come back and kill you if you call the cops," according to the document.
Crawford was arrested again Dec. 16, this time in Corvallis, for waving a knife around in his front yard, authorities said. He was taken to a local hospital for a mental evaluation, where he told a detective, "If you believe in jihad, you're working for the wrong God. You're a jihadist."
Crawford also said, "Muslims are cool. Jihadists are not."
Law enforcement officers began looking at Crawford as a possible suspect in the firebombing early in the investigation.
Federal and local officials questioned people living in the neighborhood, including Crawford, who was living with his mother and sister. When officers showed Crawford a blue Maglite flashlight they had found outside the mosque, Crawford told them it looked like his.
In a search of his house, police and the FBI took DNA samples and seized computers, digital camera equipment, a gas can and other evidence.
According to the court document, lab tests showed Crawford is a "potential major contributor" of DNA on the flashlight found near the mosque.
As they analyzed Crawford's computer, investigators found that in a Facebook update the day after the FBI sting, Crawford wrote he had seen Mohamud at the Corvallis mosque.
"That guy on the news used to go to the mosque that is right in frnt (sic) of my house," the Facebook post read, according to the court document.
On Nov. 27 and 28 Crawford conducted numerous Internet searches for news articles about the Portland bomb plot, the affidavit states.
After his house was searched last year, neighbors described Crawford as a sweet young man who loved going to the local community college and was a good dad to his 4-year-old boy.
But Crawford has had frequent run-ins with police. In years past he has been accused of assault, breaking a window when he was in jail, throwing a cup of urine at a deputy, dealing drugs, burglary, criminal trespassing and other crimes.
Even Crawford's relatives have expressed worry about his behavior. After he was thrown into a county jail in 2009, his sister told a sheriff's deputy he was "delusional," that he "had not been himself lately" and that he said he worked with the CIA, according to a sheriff's office report.
His mother said last year that Crawford has been diagnosed with high-functioning autism. She declined to comment when reached on her cell phone Thursday.
In an interview with The Associated Press last December, Crawford said he is "100 percent innocent" of the mosque firebombing, that he's a peaceful person and that he does not dislike Muslims.
"They're all just normal people. We are all people," Crawford said at the time.
If convicted on both counts, Crawford faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison, and a maximum of 30 years.
Taylor
Registered
Re: Blonde Hair, Blue Eyed, "Christian" Bombs Mosque in Oregon
Folks, if your False-Flag, Fusion-Center-Scripted, World War II German officer plucked-out-of-Hollywood-central-casting, Hate-Filled, Christian Right Winger Nutjob, Janet Napolitano generated, news talking points meter isn't pegged firmly into the redline on that fact that this is obviously an Obama staff manufactured ELECTION SEASON event, then I really can't help you.
The Collectivists literally checked EVERY SINGLE BOX on "Blame All White Folks Form" on this one. It's an absolute joke.
Folks, if your False-Flag, Fusion-Center-Scripted, World War II German officer plucked-out-of-Hollywood-central-casting, Hate-Filled, Christian Right Winger Nutjob, Janet Napolitano generated, news talking points meter isn't pegged firmly into the redline on that fact that this is obviously an Obama staff manufactured ELECTION SEASON event, then I really can't help you.
The Collectivists literally checked EVERY SINGLE BOX on "Blame All White Folks Form" on this one. It's an absolute joke.
Last edited by a moderator:
vorlos
Junior News Editor
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2014/10/01/3179822/judge-to-sentence-man-in-tree.html
Oregon man gets 30 years in Christmas bomb plot
PORTLAND, Ore. — A young Somali American was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for plotting to detonate a bomb in Portland's downtown square while 10,000 revelers gathered to watch the mayor light a towering Christmas tree.
Prosecutors had sought a 40-year term for Mohamed Mohamud, 23, in the 2010 plot that actually was an FBI sting. But U.S. District Court Judge Garr King said Mohamud's youth and remorse for his actions helped lower his sentence.
King said he believes the actions of undercover FBI agents edged into "imperfect entrapment," the idea that though they didn't fully entrap Mohamud in a legal sense, their actions nonetheless encouraged him to commit wrongdoing.
"This is a sad case," King said.
Mohamud was arrested Nov. 26, 2010, after pressing a keypad button on a cellphone that he believed would trigger a massive truck bomb and kill people gathered for the annual holiday event. But the bomb was a fake provided by FBI agents posing as al-Qaida recruiters.
The undercover agents made friends with Mohamud after learning he had written for an online jihadi magazine and exchanged emails with accused terrorists.
King disagreed with defense attorneys who made a last-gasp effort to portray Mohamud's actions as those of a confused teenager who just had his braces removed when first contacted by an FBI agent posing as a member of a terrorist cell.
Mohamud chose the location and timing of the bomb, King said, and when offered the choice to commit peaceful acts of resistance, he instead told the undercover agents he wanted to "become operational."
Mohamud's defense team had sought a term of no more than 10 years, and said he will appeal the sentence.
The former Oregon State University and his parents spoke before he was sentenced.
"The things I said and did were terrible," Mohamud said. "The hardest thing is to go over the (undercover agents') tapes, to see myself, to hear what I was saying."
His mother, Mariam Barre, begged the judge for leniency.
"Give him another chance," she said through tears on the witness stand.
His father, Osman Barre, said he has watched his waifish teenage son become an adult in prison and mature in the process. But King said Mohamud's youth aside, the sentence had to both punish him for his actions and serve as a warning for anyone planning similar acts.
FBI director James Comey said Wednesday that King's remarks about "imperfect entrapment" will have no effect on the agency's sting operations.
Comey was in Portland as part of a national tour of field offices — the U.S. Attorney's Office for Oregon says his presence on the day of Mohamud's sentencing was a coincidence.
Osman Barre was the first person to alert the FBI of his son's early leanings toward violent jihad, something he later said he regretted. The alert led the FBI to launch its sting operation.
Comey said Wednesday that parents in a similar situation ultimately have no other recourse, and he's unsure whether Mohamud's case would discourage them from coming forward.
"I just don't know what the alternative is," Comey said.
Jurors rejected Mohamud's entrapment defense at his January 2013 trial. The sentencing was pushed back a year after the government disclosed that warrantless overseas wiretaps helped make its case. The defense unsuccessfully sought a new trial.
---
Read more here: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2014/10/01/3179822/judge-to-sentence-man-in-tree.html#storylink=cpy
Oregon man gets 30 years in Christmas bomb plot
PORTLAND, Ore. — A young Somali American was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for plotting to detonate a bomb in Portland's downtown square while 10,000 revelers gathered to watch the mayor light a towering Christmas tree.
Prosecutors had sought a 40-year term for Mohamed Mohamud, 23, in the 2010 plot that actually was an FBI sting. But U.S. District Court Judge Garr King said Mohamud's youth and remorse for his actions helped lower his sentence.
King said he believes the actions of undercover FBI agents edged into "imperfect entrapment," the idea that though they didn't fully entrap Mohamud in a legal sense, their actions nonetheless encouraged him to commit wrongdoing.
"This is a sad case," King said.
Mohamud was arrested Nov. 26, 2010, after pressing a keypad button on a cellphone that he believed would trigger a massive truck bomb and kill people gathered for the annual holiday event. But the bomb was a fake provided by FBI agents posing as al-Qaida recruiters.
The undercover agents made friends with Mohamud after learning he had written for an online jihadi magazine and exchanged emails with accused terrorists.
King disagreed with defense attorneys who made a last-gasp effort to portray Mohamud's actions as those of a confused teenager who just had his braces removed when first contacted by an FBI agent posing as a member of a terrorist cell.
Mohamud chose the location and timing of the bomb, King said, and when offered the choice to commit peaceful acts of resistance, he instead told the undercover agents he wanted to "become operational."
Mohamud's defense team had sought a term of no more than 10 years, and said he will appeal the sentence.
The former Oregon State University and his parents spoke before he was sentenced.
"The things I said and did were terrible," Mohamud said. "The hardest thing is to go over the (undercover agents') tapes, to see myself, to hear what I was saying."
His mother, Mariam Barre, begged the judge for leniency.
"Give him another chance," she said through tears on the witness stand.
His father, Osman Barre, said he has watched his waifish teenage son become an adult in prison and mature in the process. But King said Mohamud's youth aside, the sentence had to both punish him for his actions and serve as a warning for anyone planning similar acts.
FBI director James Comey said Wednesday that King's remarks about "imperfect entrapment" will have no effect on the agency's sting operations.
Comey was in Portland as part of a national tour of field offices — the U.S. Attorney's Office for Oregon says his presence on the day of Mohamud's sentencing was a coincidence.
Osman Barre was the first person to alert the FBI of his son's early leanings toward violent jihad, something he later said he regretted. The alert led the FBI to launch its sting operation.
Comey said Wednesday that parents in a similar situation ultimately have no other recourse, and he's unsure whether Mohamud's case would discourage them from coming forward.
"I just don't know what the alternative is," Comey said.
Jurors rejected Mohamud's entrapment defense at his January 2013 trial. The sentencing was pushed back a year after the government disclosed that warrantless overseas wiretaps helped make its case. The defense unsuccessfully sought a new trial.
---
Read more here: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2014/10/01/3179822/judge-to-sentence-man-in-tree.html#storylink=cpy
Arheel's Uncle
Senior Reporter
Blowing raspberries at RWW & the Norman Lear flunkies who continue to this day claiming NNN uses unverified untrustworthy sources.
Convicted Bomb Plotter Sentenced to 30 Years
Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 23, who was convicted in 2013 of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction (explosives) in connection with a plot to detonate a vehicle bomb at an annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, was sentenced today to serve 30 years in prison, followed by a...
Convicted Bomb Plotter Sentenced to 30 Years
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
For Immediate Release
Office of Public Affairs
PORTLAND, Oregon. – Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 23, who was convicted in 2013 of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction (explosives) in connection with a plot to detonate a vehicle bomb at an annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, was sentenced today to serve 30 years in prison, followed by a lifetime term of supervised release.
Mohamud, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia and former resident of Corvallis, Oregon, was arrested on Nov. 26, 2010, after he attempted to detonate what he believed to be an explosives-laden van that was parked near the tree lighting ceremony in Portland. The arrest was the culmination of a long-term undercover operation, during which Mohamud was monitored closely for months as his bomb plot developed. The device was in fact inert, and the public was never in danger from the device.
At sentencing, United States District Court Judge Garr M. King, who presided over Mohamed’s 14-day trial, said “the intended crime was horrific,” and that the defendant, even though he was presented with options by undercover FBI employees, “never once expressed a change of heart.” King further noted that the Christmas tree ceremony was attended by up to 10,000 people, and that the defendant “wanted everyone to leave either dead or injured.” King said his sentence was necessary in view of the seriousness of the crime and to serve as deterrence to others who might consider similar acts.
“With today’s sentencing, Mohamed Osman Mohamud is being held accountable for his attempted use of what he believed to be a massive bomb to attack innocent civilians attending a public Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland,” said John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security. “The evidence clearly indicated that Mohamud was intent on killing as many people as possible with his attack. Fortunately, law enforcement was able to identify him as a threat, insert themselves in the place of a terrorist that Mohamud was trying to contact, and thwart Mohamud’s efforts to conduct an attack on our soil. This case highlights how the use of undercover operations against would-be terrorists allows us to engage and disrupt those who wish to commit horrific acts of violence against the innocent public. The many agents, analysts, and prosecutors who have worked on this case deserve great credit for their roles in protecting Portland from the threat posed by this defendant and ensuring that he was brought to justice.”
“This trial provided a rare glimpse into the techniques Al Qaeda employs to radicalize home-grown extremists,” said Amanda Marshall, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon. “With the sentencing today, the court has held this defendant accountable. I thank the dedicated professionals in the law enforcement and intelligence communities who were responsible for this successful outcome. I look forward to our continued work with Muslim communities in Oregon who are committed to ensuring that all young people are safe from extremists who seek to radicalize others to engage in violence.”
According to the trial evidence, in February 2009, Mohamud began communicating via e-mail with Samir Khan, a now-deceased al Qaeda terrorist who published Jihad Recollections, an online magazine that advocated violent jihad, and who also published Inspire, the official magazine of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Between February and August 2009, Mohamed exchanged approximately 150 emails with Khan. Mohamud wrote several articles for Jihad Recollections that were published under assumed names.
In August 2009, Mohamud was in email contact with Amro Al-Ali, a Saudi national who was in Yemen at the time and is today in custody in Saudi Arabia for terrorism offenses. Al-Ali sent Mohamud detailed e-mails designed to facilitate Mohamud’s travel to Yemen to train for violent jihad. In December 2009, while Al-Ali was in the northwest frontier province of Pakistan, Mohamud and Al-Ali discussed the possibility of Mohamud traveling to Pakistan to join Al-Ali in terrorist activities. Mohamud responded to Al-Ali in an e-mail: “yes, that would be wonderful, just tell me what I need to do.” Al-Ali referred Mohamud to a second associate overseas and provided Mohamud with a name and email address to facilitate the process.
In the following months, Mohamud made several unsuccessful attempts to contact Al-Ali’s associate. Ultimately, an FBI undercover operative contacted Mohamud via email under the guise of being an associate of Al-Ali’s. Mohamud and the FBI undercover operative agreed to meet in Portland in July 2010. At the meeting, Mohamud told the FBI undercover operative he had written articles that were published in Jihad Recollections. Mohamud also said that he wanted to become “operational.” Asked what he meant by “operational,” Mohamud said he wanted to put an explosion together, but needed help.
According to evidence presented at trial, at a meeting in August 2010, Mohamud told undercover FBI operatives he had been thinking of committing violent jihad since the age of 15. Mohamud then told the undercover FBI operatives that he had identified a potential target for a bomb: the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square on Nov. 26, 2010. The undercover FBI operatives cautioned Mohamud several times about the seriousness of this plan, noting there would be many people at the event, including children, and emphasized that Mohamud could abandon his attack plans at any time with no shame. Mohamud indicated the deaths would be justified and that he would not mind carrying out a suicide attack on the crowd.
According to evidence presented at trial, in the ensuing months Mohamud continued to express his interest in carrying out the attack and worked on logistics. On Nov. 4, 2010, Mohamud and the undercover FBI operatives traveled to a remote location in Lincoln County, Oregon, where they detonated a bomb concealed in a backpack as a trial run for the upcoming attack. During the drive back to Corvallis, Mohamud was asked if was capable looking at all the bodies of those who would be killed during the explosion. In response, Mohamud noted, “I want whoever is attending that event to be, to leave either dead or injured.” Mohamud later recorded a video of himself, with the assistance of the undercover FBI operatives, in which he read a statement that offered his rationale for his bomb attack.
On Nov. 18, 2010, undercover FBI operatives picked up Mohamud to travel to Portland to finalize the details of the attack. On Nov. 26, 2010, just hours before the planned attack, Mohamud examined the 1,800 pound bomb in the van and remarked that it was “beautiful.” Later that day, Mohamud was arrested after he attempted to remotely detonate the inert vehicle bomb rked near the Christmas tree lighting ceremony
This case was investigated by the FBI, with assistance from the Oregon State Police, the Corvallis Police Department, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office and the Portland Police Bureau. The prosecution was handled by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Ethan D. Knight and Pamala Holsinger from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon. Trial Attorney Jolie F. Zimmerman, from the Counterterrorism Section of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, assisted.
# # #
Last edited: