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.
80's Rock
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@Imperious:
you forgot Blue oyster cult, and Emerson, Lake, and palmer
Ah Blue Oyster Cult - love that Godzilla song. I used to crank that so loud the widows vibrated… Go Go Godzilla!
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You also forgot Styx, REO Speedwagon, Guns N’ Roses, Don Henley, John Fogerty, Genesis, and it’s offshoots Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel (arguably the most talented singer/songwriter in the 80’s).
I agree with your list with a few notable exceptions, fish.
AC/DC, Floyd, and Rush did their best work in the 70’s, by far.
And Ozzy sucked after he left Sabbath. It irritates me to no end that such a genius could so completely roll over and pump out cookie cutter garbage after being in one of the most defining rock bands of all time. The drug binges definitely took their toll.
Here’s a love song for you. Ties in with another thread currently being discussed. UP THE IRONS!
To be honest most of that was from memory, so The AC/DC Floyd and Rush as well as Sabath were probably old stuff that I was just listening to in the 80s. For that matter I listened to a lot of the same songs in the 90s. For example I don’t think I listend to very much at all that Motley Crue did after 90.
Also, Guns and Roses had some good songs but I could never stand Axl Rose :roll: Also I never got into Phil Collins, but Peter Gabriel made M-TV watchable :-D
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@Der:
Nice List DF,
I’ll add a few more nice list.Here’s a few more: Slayer, Guns n roses, The Smiths, The Pixies, The Clash, Kiss, Dead kennedy’s, The Ramones, Red Hot Chili’s…
Red Hot Chilli’s, lmao, that brings back some memories, more 90s for me though.
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@ncscswitch:
Speaking for myself…
Rap would be the biggest detriment to modern music. Modern R&B has NOTHING to do with classic R&B.
And Pop has again been dragged into oblivion, perhaps even more severely than it was during Disco.
There are a few groups out there doing some half decent stuff (Hoobastank mentioned above, I also like a couple of White Stripes tunes…) but by-and-large the only folks BUYING music today are buying trash; and the labels are controlled by either Disney “artists” or gang-bangers.
Music is on a cusp again, like it was circa 1981. The current era has done all that it can, and each “new” song is only a rehash of what went before. EVERYONE is waiting for the next Van Halen so that music can “run with the devil” again for a while and grow into something other than the current TRASH.
And you know… it is really SAD that the most trite Hair Bands of the late 80’s had more originality and more SKILL than anything currently aired on Top 40 stations today. It is enough to make me ALMOST long for a return to Bow Wow Wow…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNHcaIJETZoAt LEAST they had a good hook…
I tell you what, I could go for a piece of candy about now :-D 80s chicks were so friggen hot…
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and they had real boobs in all the movies.
but is orion by metalica the best song of the 80’s? and probably ever?
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Never heard of it.
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man oh man. no lyrics, just powerful.
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Overall, the best MUSIC of the last 30 years has got to be the Alan Parsons Project. The sheer diversity and the overall QUALITY of their work over nearly a score of albums is incredible.
Add in the Alan Parsons was also a producer on Dark Side of the Moon and it would be really difficult to find a more powerful name in the music business (at least in terms of MUSIC) during the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s… even if you include the mega-pop-stars of the same time span like Madonna and Jackson.
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A little Ozzy…
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I think this might be very early 1990’s…
But with it being Tammy Wynette, it is worth mentioning… as a low point.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0EsFv1M8lM&feature=related]](http://[url)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0EsFv1M8lM&feature=related
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Of course THIS video is 100% on topic for this forum…
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