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.
Old News Re: Second Hand Smoking and a New Study,too…
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Just found this old webpage by stumbling across the title of the article…
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That was me…thought I was logged in!
Here’s the first article…http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200305\FOR20030516d.html
I smoke an occassional seegar…no inhaling and much better choice of aromas. I hate cheap cigars! Never had a Habana,though.
When I smoke It’s always outside or in a “smoking room” (not too many of those around here.) If others are around I ask If they mind and usually give them lots of space anyway…unless they light up, too!
A LITTLE OFF TOPIC…
I know some of you are “too young to smoke.”
I don’t advise starting using cigarettes or chewin’ 'baccy(I knew guys that did each.)
Chewing(and SPITTTING) is just NASTY! I’ve seen guys aciddentally drink from a can of spit. YUCK!
I remember going out with friends/family years ago and coming home smelling like an ashtray. Be it restaurant, bar, or church… -
I don’t smoke but it doesn’t bother me in the least if someone around me does. On occasion I enjoy the smell.
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- “Forces” is funded entirely by the Tobacco Industry. This is a propaganda machine generated by the industry, run by people with the time and the money-motive to convince other people to kill themselves with smoking.
- An unpublished study would have to be EXTREMELY good with high numbers and low “p” values in order to refute the British Medical Journal (IMO a better medical journal than The New England Journal of Medicine from a science perspective).
- Too many other studies document that children of smokers have predisposition to allergies and asthma.
Forces tries to put out these kinds of “findings” all the time. They also use terrible logic to refute good science. I have tried to consider honestly what they have to say in the past, but it all flies in the face of everything else i have read and seen.
(of course this may appear incredibly biased as my father made their “jackass” page, however i had realized the “Forces” shortcomings long before this happened)
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The results of the study seem to be a mixed bag. See the BJM editorial…
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7398/1048
The fact that the study was authorized and sponsored by proponents of California Proposition 99(Anti-Smoking group)and then dropped because of the apparent survey outcome seems to balance the equation for me.
That’s akin to a district attorney gathering evidence that contradicts the outcome s/he wishes in a case. Then not turning the results of the investigation over to the defense attorney. The facts are hiden from the jury…
For a BJM overview and acces to a BJM abridged version of the survey, see…
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