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.
Living in New Jersey?
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By the way guys, Djensen figured it out. Anyone who posted on AOL were shown as the same IP address.
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Well, if’n we’d had ourn thankin’ caps on we coulda figurd dat out.
Internet, group on one website, a good # of group have the same IP addresss = Largest ISP/IPP!Doh! :oops:
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By the way guys, Djensen figured it out. Anyone who posted on AOL were shown as the same IP address.
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Xi i have every right 2 think Negative thoughts about ne one or ne were i want.
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D_E_S,
Please, note the HYPOCRICY in my previous post :P .
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o okay lol i did not notice that lol . well if u have a sense of humor then i guess ur cool in my book ;)
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What were the three lines the Ewok said that could translate to English?
- Urmifrin = You’re my friend.
- Eachamoma = Eat your momma!
- ?? I CANNOT RECALL THIS ONE. I GOTTA GET THE MOVIE AGAIN!
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:wink: :lol: :roll:
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Ee chee wa maa!= Wow! or Gee whiz!
Yub yub = Lets go
thats all i could translate that u asked, i assumed that Yub yub was the other one u wanted. i got a book on how to speak Ewoktise so if u need ne other phrases just ask.
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Nope!
When I saw the movie the first time the first easily translatable (slurred English) line slipped by me but I knew it said something. I laughed my sas off at the second and third lines, while everyone else around me was just excited about the action (lotsa lil kiddos at an afternoon matinee).
I know that the two lines I recall are not the second and third lines. I think they are the first and third.
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well that is what my Ewoktiese Dictionary states mate ;)
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Well! If you you teased me,
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Back on topic…
How much snow in New Jersey now?
Here in SW Ohio we’ve had about 32" so far this winter.
16" is average, but last year we only had 6".I heard Maryland had 4 feet in about 2 days! Wow chee ow!
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well we got 2 and a half ft on monday :) but overall i do not tknow exactly but ill take a guess, about 5 or 6 ft
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Lets see…
We had 6 inches or so on Thanksgiving. Another 8 or 10 on Christmas. 6 or so inches a few weeks later. Maybe another foot in random little snowfalls. Then of course last weekend, hitting 30 inches in some parts.
So, I’d say in the range of 4-5 feet.
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hey Yanny wear were u today i missed u at lunch. we had another hilarious day at subway. the funniest one of them all and u mist it :P
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We’re supposed to get hit hard again next week here in Ohio!
Hope they are wrong. My back is still tired from the last mess.
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