New York ‘lone wolf’ was one hour away from finishing his bomb
She also praised the New York Police Department, saying, “I think they handled it well.”
Officials with the NYPD, which conducted the undercover investigation using a confidential informant and a bugged apartment, said the department had to move quickly because Pimentel was about to test a pipe bomb made out of match heads, nails and other ingredients bought at neighborhood hardware and discount stores.
Two law enforcement officials said Monday that the NYPD’s Intelligence Division had sought to get the FBI involved at least twice as the investigation unfolded. Both times, the FBI concluded that Pimentel lacked the mental capacity to act on his own, they said.
The FBI thought Pimentel “didn’t have the predisposition or the ability to do anything on his own,” one of the officials said.
The officials were not authorized to speak about the case and spoke on condition of anonymity. The FBI’s New York office and the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan both declined to comment on Monday.
Pimentel’s lawyer, Joseph Zablocki, said his client was never a true threat.
“If the goal here is to be stopping terror … I’m not sure that this is where we should be spending our resources,” he said.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly defended the handling of the case Monday, saying the NYPD kept federal authorities in the loop “all along” before circumstances forced investigators to take swift measures using state charges.
“No question in my mind that we had to take this case down,” Kelly said. “There was an imminent threat.”
Added Kelly: “This is a classic case of what we’ve been talking about �� the lone wolf, an individual, self-radicalized. This is the needle in the haystack problem we face as a country and as a city.”
Authorities described Pimentel as an unemployed U.S. citizen and “al-Qaida sympathizer” who was born in the Dominican Republic. He had lived most of his life in Manhattan, aside from about five years in the upstate city of Schenectady, where authorities say he had an arrested for credit card fraud.
His mother said he was raised Roman Catholic. But he converted to Islam in 2004 and went by the name Muhammad Yusuf, authorities said.
Using a tip from police in Albany, the NYPD had been watching Pimentel using a confidential informant for the past year. Investigators learned that he was energized and motivated to carry out his plan by the Sept. 30 killing of al-Qaida’s U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, police said.
Pimentel was under constant surveillance as he shopped for the pipe bombmaterials. He also was overheard talking about attacking police patrol cars and postal facilities, killing soldiers returning home from abroad andbombing a police station in Bayonne, N.J., authorizes said.
NewYorks new Gov.
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well, he has already had affairs(5) and said that before he was sworn in. his wife had affairs also.(2) (that’s what they both say)
a new woman came out and can prove of her relationship(affair) with the new gov. she claims to also be able to prove that she got her job with the city as a payment.(illegal)
lastly, allegations of hooker use are coming into the fold. if those pan out, thats also illegal.
WOW, would it be amazing to see the replacement go down in similar flames too.
will he stay and try to ride it out?
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Who doesnt love a juicy prostitution scandal?
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You’ve got to love politicians. They’re all such upstanding citizens.
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Thomas Jefferson banged his slaves and he is one of our greatest,
I don’t see how an affair is going to effect a leaders decision making ablity
or why it is important expose them.
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I personal don’t care about afairs.
Spitzer needed to go though. You cant run for office, and get elected, on the premise that you are uncorupt, “Mr Clean” and the promise that you are tough on crime and you will clean up the streets, and then break the very laws you say you are hard on. No pun intended.
Then again since it’s in NY my oppinion doesn’t really mater anyway. :wink:
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aside from the multiple affairs,
what about getting the girl a job in the city for sex and prostitution is illegal for the guy also.
you cant have a criminal as a mayor again can they?
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If we kicked out every Democrat who’s been sexually promiscuous and unfaithful to their wives then we’d have no Democrats in office anywhere.
Eventually we just have to realize the party of immorality is going to be immoral.
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Don’t forget the Republicans, they’re just as immoral as any Democrat. :evil:
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@Cmdr:
If we kicked out every Democrat who’s been sexually promiscuous and unfaithful to their wives then we’d have no Democrats in office anywhere.
What about Barney Frank? :?
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@Cmdr:
If we kicked out every Democrat who’s been sexually promiscuous and unfaithful to their wives then we’d have no Democrats in office anywhere.
We’d be pretty low on Televangelists too :evil:
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@ncscswitch:
@Cmdr:
If we kicked out every Democrat who’s been sexually promiscuous and unfaithful to their wives then we’d have no Democrats in office anywhere.
We’d be pretty low on Televangelists too :evil:
Yea, but there would be no catholic priests who were kicked out for cheating ON THEIR WIVES!
=)
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If you have ever seen the full version of Achmed the Dead Terrorist, please remember what Achmed did with the two Catholic Priests :-D
And we HAVE had Congressmen removed for THAT before…
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@ncscswitch:
If you have ever seen the full version of Achmed the Dead Terrorist, please remember what Achmed did with the two Catholic Priests :-D
And we HAVE had Congressmen removed for THAT before…
Nope, can’t say I’ve seen that movie.
When it was filmed, did they have color yet? I mean, I know yer kinda old. (ducks the lamp thrown at her.) Hey now, gramps, let’s not get TOO touchy!
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Achmed…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go
Worth the 10 minutes to watch the whole thing :-)
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