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 big 'E' is dead! Long live the big 'E'
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I thought these two articles would make for an interesting story about the end and start of a new chapter in the history of the Enterprise.
Global Security www.globalsecurity.org is a really cool website for FACTS. You get
87 article views every 30 days. You can get around this by deleting the specific cookie for this site which is somewhat tedious to pick out one cookie if you have many in a list, easier is to install a second browser where you just clear all the history every 8 article views.Enterprise, Navy’s First Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier, Inactivated
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2012/12/mil-121201-nns01.htmNavy’s Next Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier to be Named Enterprise
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2012/12/mil-121201-dod01.htm -
MrMalichiCrunch,
I’ll read these interesting articles later, thanks. If I remember correctly, the “bridge/mast” of the WWII Enterprise was preserved at the U.S. Naval Academy so we’ll always have that at least. It’s truly a shame that Admiral Halsey’s efforts weren’t enough to save the entire “Big E” as a museum for us to commemorate “the Fightingest Ship in the Navy”.
“Tall Paul”
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@Tall:
MrMalichiCrunch,
I’ll read these interesting articles later, thanks. If I remember correctly, the “bridge/mast” of the WWII Enterprise was preserved at the U.S. Naval Academy so we’ll always have that at least. It’s truly a shame that Admiral Halsey’s efforts weren’t enough to save the entire “Big E” as a museum for us to commemorate “the Fightingest Ship in the Navy”.
“Tall Paul”
So very true.
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Oh… man :cry:
I knew this day was coming. Never did get to see my favorite ship in person.
At least we won’t be without her for long. Still, a very sad day.
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2012/12/mil-121201-dod01.htm
I note that this press release is dated “IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 28, 2012”. Considering that today is December 3, 2012, I’d say that’s even more than “immediate”, it’s ahead of its time.
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@CWO:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2012/12/mil-121201-dod01.htm
I note that this press release is dated “IMMEDIATE RELEASE Â December 28, 2012”. Â Considering that today is December 3, 2012, I’d say that’s even more than “immediate”, it’s ahead of its time.
just a offspring of the philly experiment  :wink:…
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For anyone who may be interested in the Enterprise, of WWII fame at least, and her legacy, please read: The Big E by Edward Stafford.
Not only is it the best book on the Enterprise, but it is one of the best written books on WWII that I have ever read. I guarantee you will enjoy it.
http://www.amazon.com/Big-Story-USS-Enterprise/dp/1557509980
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