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.
Interesting new Mercedes- Benz commercial
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Hitler Alert!
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I thought it was humorous.
But I always had a bit of a twisted sense of humor. =^_^=
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Notice how the kid is laying in the shape of a swastika at the end.
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:P I didn’t see that, good catch!
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Not funny at all!!
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Meh. If it’s even real, it’s hilarious to think a company that profited off of Hitler’s aggression trying to profit of his reputation still.
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It probably isn’t real. Still kind of funny. German’s have zero humor about Adolf and Mercedes is a German company. Besides, didn’t Adolf drive a Rolls Royce?
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@Cmdr:
It probably isn’t real. Still kind of funny. German’s have zero humor about Adolf and Mercedes is a German company. Besides, didn’t Adolf drive a Rolls Royce?
A Mercedes-Benz model 770 – about seven of them in total, I think. The Canadian War Museum has one, which I’ve seen.
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The Beast out of the Sea -
" The dragon[a] stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. 2 The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. 3 One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast. 4 People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?” "
- Rev 13: 1-4
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Linkon, what does that have to do with the price of rice in China?
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Nobody declared adolf dead yet.
" One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. "
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Okay, I am going to go out on a limb here and say Uncle Adolf Hitler, the great and benevolent leader of the most evil regime ever to grace the face of the earth in living history, who was born on 20 April 1889 has probably died in the ensuing 124 years, if at least of old age.
Thomas Peter Thorvald Kristian Ferdinand ‘Christian’ Mortensen (Denmark/USA, b. 16 August 18Â82, d. 25 April 1998) died aged 115 years 252 days. He is the only Nordic person to live beyond the age of 113.
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/1/oldest-person-(male)
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@Cmdr:
Okay, I am going to go out on a limb here and say Uncle Adolf Hitler, the great and benevolent leader of the most evil regime ever to grace the face of the earth in living history, who was born on 20 April 1889 has probably died in the ensuing 124 years, if at least of old age.
It’s also safe to assume that, if perchance he’s managed to live this long, his current “table talk” informal monologues to his entourage are probably even more tedious and rambling than they were at the time of the Second World War.
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Nobody declared adolf dead yet.
" One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. "
Uh, he’s dead.
No need to quote a fairy tale to muddle the facts.
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let’s not start calling any person’s faith fairy tales. It’s somewhere the site admin does not want us to go and I can see nothing good coming from such a comment - discussion wise.
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