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.
The most disgusting thing you've ever encountered?
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Top five most disgusting things.
1. My mother-in-law’s 7 day old corspe.
2. An opossum exiting the a$$ of a dead horse.
3. A kid on thanksgiving dinner day in Jr. Highschool throwing up on the school bus while the bus was on a long upward hill with a good many stops.
4. A large wild feral cat getting torn apart by two dogs.
5. On a T.V show about animal cruility in China’s resturants, a cat getting boiled alive. That was messed up.
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You mean they eat cats too?!?!?!
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@ABWorsham:
2. An opossum exiting the a$$ of a dead horse.
Oh Fuq…
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@ABWorsham:
3. A kid on thanksgiving dinner day in Jr. Highschool throwing up on the school bus while the bus was on a long upward hill with a good many stops.
There’s no school on Thanksgiving.
YOU’RE BUSTED!
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Uggh, suddenly, the taste of puss on my lips pales to those smells I can only imagine…
I yield.
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@Young:
@ABWorsham:
3. A kid on thanksgiving dinner day in Jr. Highschool throwing up on the school bus while the bus was on a long upward hill with a good many stops.
There’s no school on Thanksgiving.
YOU’RE BUSTED!
PWNED!
Something about that story definetly did STINK… ;)
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@Young:
@ABWorsham:
There’s no school on Thanksgiving.
YOU’RE BUSTED!
Our school had a traditional Thanksgiving dinner the week before the holiday. Do you really think I would create a story? I’ll give you the name of the kid that vomitted, if you want.
If you require more details, there was a girl asleep on the floor when this happened. We were able to wake her up before the mass of vomit reached her head. lol Picture twenty kids standing on the bus seats screaming, a few of us taking advantage of the situation to really act a fool. An eighty year old bus driver screaming at all of us. -
I’ll give you the name of the kid that vomitted, if you wan
LOL Yes,
I definetly require this information!
This event and his name will live in infamy online forever!
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I’ll give you the name of the kid that vomitted, if you wan
LOL Yes,
I definetly require this information!
This event and his name will live in infamy online forever!
Thomas Swinney, he was a fat dumb a$$. I was actally sitting with him. He told me, “man, I’m not feeling good.” Then came the recycled turkey and dressing. I jumped over the seat. This kid ate like a cow. It was bad.
Nothing like school bus drama.
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Can you give more info about the possum in the horse’s butt? Did you see this in person or on the internet? There is some weeeeeird porn out there
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@Vance:
Can you give more info about the possum in the horse’s butt? Did you see this in person or on the internet? There is some weeeeeird porn out there
I live out in rural East Texas. One day I was in my work truck and saw a brown streak on the road. So I followed the trail. The streak was the skin marks of a dead horse that a old man tied to his tractor and drug to river bottom. I got to this dead horse and then noticed movement. This possum had crawled into this horse to feed from the inside out. It was covered in blood and fluid, it was horrible. A bloody giant rat!
I told that story to others around my home town, they told me its pretty common.
A couple days later, took a co-worker to visit the site, there were so many vultures feeding on this horse that the dead body was moving. Atleast 5 vultures were inside this horse, it stunk bad.
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@ABWorsham:
I told that story to others around my home town, they told me its pretty common.
What the hell is wrong with you people!!!
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@Vance:
@ABWorsham:
I told that story to others around my home town, they told me its pretty common.
What the hell is wrong with you people!!!
Farmers, ranchers and hunters, you are going to run across dead animals.
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ALMOST as nasty as when one of the guys came to work an entered the first aid office…
“Hey I just got back from Amersterdam, and there is some kind of boil that’s moving/bubbling on my inner leg, and now I’m seeing signs of it directly across and on my other leg, can you look at it?”That’s nasty.
Have any of you seen women with facial hair? It causes me to get sick. Do they care how they look?
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@Vance:
@ABWorsham:
I told that story to others around my home town, they told me its pretty common.
What the hell is wrong with you people!!!
Pretty common may have been wrong phrase, I know three others guys that have witnessed possiums exiting dead horses and cows.
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A couple days later, took a co-worker to visit the site, there were so many vultures feeding on this horse that the dead body was moving. Atleast 5 vultures were inside this horse, it stunk bad.
Apparently visiting rotting horse corpses qualifies as “site seeing” in Texas.
LOL
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Nice Worsham. Now I remember why I do not leave the lush fields that are England.
I am not sure my vegetarian sensibilities could take a Texan summer. -
I knew this topic would be fun :lol:
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I grew up on a farm in Ontario Canada, and one day when I was 7, my uncle and I came upon a huge water moccasin snake. Well my uncle couldn’t have that slithering around so he took a big rock and dropped it hard on the snakes head. What I witnessed next was truly gross; the snakes belly split open as if there was an insision made by an invisible scalpel, that’s when hundreds of tiny worm looking babies wrapped in a thick clear mucus squirming franticly came spilling out of her. I guess I know now why my uncle couldn’t have that snake around the farm.
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Many years ago I worked in a health food store. I had a guy in my department that came in before I did, and there were probably 20 - 30 employees or so around the store since open before I got there. I came in at 11am, headed to the warehouse and encountered the worst stench I’ve ever smelled coming from the public bathrooms next to the warehouse doors. I asked my minion why it smelled so bad and he said that around 9am right after opening, he saw a guy come out of the bathroom with his pants down, his jacket wrapped around his waist. The guy looked extremely pale and gaunt, and had IVs still hanging out of him or something. He rushed up to his wife and told her “We have to get the hell out of here!”, which my coworker heard.
So for 2 hours, the store reeked terribly and all the people that worked the floor and warehouse did nothing except complain.
I take it upon myself to investigate, pretty sure what to expect. However, I was completely wrong.
As soon as I push open the door, I’m greeted with a more intense odor than before that almost makes me retch. I also see a puddle of poop, about 1 foot in diameter and with the color and consistency of split pea soup, 5 feet away from the door and around 20 feet away from the toilet. I look around the side of the half wall that was in place so people couldn’t peek in and watch you use the bathroom, and see at least half a dozen more of these puddles, making their way to the toilet like stepping stones.
I push open the stall door, and the toilet front, back, and top, as well as the wall and floor behind it, is literally covered in liquid shit. The guy’s ass exploded, and I’m not kidding about that. It was a shotgun blast of poop, as far as how the spread looked.
The kicker is this, though: there was no poop actually in the toilet bowl. Everywhere else, but not there. What WAS in the toilet was his soiled underwear that he had abandoned.
I got my minion and another coworker to help me clean it up, then convinced the GM to let us go home to wash and change, on the clock. When we got back, we were handed $15 gift certificates.
After that, I’ve never flinched at anything regarding that stuff. I’ve changed diapers like a champ. I stomached through 2girls1cup (which may actually be the most disgusting thing I’ve seen).
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