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.
What Moral Basis for One World Government Laws?
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Please tell me Yanny, if that person mentioned “the Lord” in his school speech, how does that infringe on your rights? Is it emotionally scarring? Perhaps even traumatizing? I’ve never understood this….
Why should I be forced to listen to some idiot preach to me? Its a waste of my time and theirs. When I go to my High School graduation, I want to hear about my High School, not some fake Diety. It is not their business to be praising the Lord in school. The school is not a converting ground.
Why should there be a double standard for Religions? The Christian Religion is accepted everywhere, but a Hindu or a Buddist or a Muslim or a Silhk (sp) couldn’t get up and give the same speech. All these Religions are false and should have no place in a public school.
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Please tell me Yanny, if that person mentioned “the Lord” in his school speech, how does that infringe on your rights? Is it emotionally scarring? Perhaps even traumatizing? I’ve never understood this….
Why should I be forced to listen to some idiot preach to me? Its a waste of my time and theirs. When I go to my High School graduation, I want to hear about my High School, not some fake Diety. It is not their business to be praising the Lord in school. The school is not a converting ground.
Why should there be a double standard for Religions? The Christian Religion is accepted everywhere, but a Hindu or a Buddist or a Muslim or a Silhk (sp) couldn’t get up and give the same speech. All these Religions are false and should have no place in a public school.
but the allowing of a person to “preach” does not fall under “free speach”? The ability of Klansmen to gather in front of a city hall to preach against and denounce “niggers” and Jews and Catholics is appropriate and should be allowed as this is a “real belief”? Too many examples of what i think are wrong, wastes of time and energy, bizaare preachings and messages. At the same time, I accept that this is what they have to say, and whether i disagree with their message or not, it is their right to say it under whatever constitution you worship.
I´d say deal with this as a small price to pay for freedoms that are related in some twisted and sick perverted way. You, F_alk and Fin all preach anti-religious propaganda with religious fervor. One might make a case for a religion (in its intensity and fervor). -
I’m gonna start a new country tomorrow.
Soon as I finish this cigar.
I’ll write the Xinstitution
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but the allowing of a person to “preach” does not fall under “free speach”? The ability of Klansmen to gather in front of a city hall to preach against and denounce “niggers” and Jews and Catholics is appropriate and should be allowed as this is a “real belief”?
You wouldn’t allow a KKK member to speak at graduation. There are certain lines which have to be drawn. As students, we are not given the right of free speech.
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Deviant:Scripter would it bother you if somebody praised Satan in a school speech bother you?? What gods should be allowed in school speeches?? Who decides what gods or religions can be talked about in public.
Hell yes it would bother me. :evil:
Why should I be forced to listen to some idiot preach to me?
Since when is MENTIONING the word “God” preaching?
preach - To advocate, especially to urge acceptance of or compliance with. (Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary)
Nobody is forcing you to accept or even to agree with it.
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