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.
New Syrian Rebels Anti-Tank weapon
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I was perusing these “Syrian Combat” videos on the internet and… well… see for yourself.
Apparently, blowing up tanks and other vehicles is directly related to how many Aloha Ackbars you can say whilst looking at it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XjdA73iVJo
Modern Russian tanks can take up to 200 Alohou ackbarshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOMwoYeoGmM
An older T-72 can last around 100 Alhou Ackbarshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=o0R0DdqnR3M&feature=fvwp
A Medium size APC can be as few as 50 Alhou Ackbarshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3bdOoZn8x4
And apparently for about 12 or 15 alohou ackbars it’s possible to remove a helicopter from the sky too…But no one knows for sure exactly how many aloho ackbars it takes to get to the centre of an M1A1 and live.
Informed speculation is that it got to be well over 1000…
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Anyways… For the record I’m not trying to take away from the seriousness of the conflict there… I just found some of the “commentary” amusing and wanted an excuse to share these videos with you guys.
In terms of seriousness, I found this video extremely compelling, and quite -in your face-.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMHvbGAVWuUHere’s to hoping the conflict ends soon.
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I take that to be the equivalent of “Oh my God!”, which is pretty routine around here, even if you aren’t religious when a pants-shitting moment happens.
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No, even if we assume it’s their “oh my god” type thing, it’s still annoying as hell how many damn times they say it. Also, in the second video that’s a T-55 and they actually don’t hit it, they hit the truck behind it, so really, that tank survived many allah snackbars.
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No, even if we assume it’s their “oh my god” type thing, it’s still annoying as hell how many damn times they say it. Also, in the second video that’s a T-55 and they actually don’t hit it, they hit the truck behind it, so really, that tank survived many allah snackbars.
LOL yeah… the point is the same though, I’ve watched another 5 or 6 videos, and they are all like that LOL.
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No, even if we assume it’s their “oh my god” type thing, it’s still annoying as hell how many damn times they say it. Also, in the second video that’s a T-55 and they actually don’t hit it, they hit the truck behind it, so really, that tank survived many allah snackbars.
Not the exact same, but same principal.
If it’s annoying then don’t watch the video? Not sure what to tell you, but you’re an adult and should be able to figure it out.
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AllÄhu Akbar - The phrase literally means “God is greater” and is used in a worshipping manner; whereof “Oh my God” more a negative phrase becomes if you are not finishing your sentence.
Imagine calling somebody over and over without adressing the issue!
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@aequitas:
Allāhu Akbar - The phrase literally means “God is greater” and is used in a worshipping manner; whereof “Oh my God” more a negative phrase becomes if you are not finishing your sentence.
Imagine calling somebody over and over without adressing the issue!
I didn’t mean a direct analog. More that we invoke “god phrases” pretty frequently, so it doesn’t seem as uncommon. Godspeed, Go with God, God Bless, the one I mentioned earlier…etc. It’s not that out of place.
I’m sure when it comes to war people say the craziest shit anyway.
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at war the most common is Moma or Mommy I think…
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No, even if we assume it’s their “oh my god” type thing, it’s still annoying as hell how many damn times they say it. Also, in the second video that’s a T-55 and they actually don’t hit it, they hit the truck behind it, so really, that tank survived many allah snackbars.
Not the exact same, but same principal.
If it’s annoying then don’t watch the video? Not sure what to tell you, but you’re an adult and should be able to figure it out.
Well that’s just some ground breaking advice right there. Or I’ll still watch them and complain about it. But it doesn’t bother me half as much as the amount of hip fire that goes on in these conflicts does lol :-P
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