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.
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I hit Idaho, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan (inc Detroit), Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Minnesota and Tennessee. I wanted to go to Mountana…. :(
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where in tn?, the local im from is near knoxville
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Isn’t their a myspace account available for these things?
Craigslist?
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where in tn?, the local im from is near knoxville
I was only there to install security devices and power for them in CVS Pharmecy, K-Mart and Wal-mart. I never bothered to say hi to the local lodges. :)
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not sure if I want to know, but what is craigslist?
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Oh, and TC. I live right by Knox, and would be more than willing to kick your ass in an A&A game!
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not sure if I want to know, but what is craigslist?
Craigslist is a classic “bait and switch” internet site where anybody can post a “job” or a place to rent or sell and buy stuff. The problem is 90% of these people have this agenda where they for example offer to sell a sofa and somehow some sex must be exchanged to “trade” for the sofa… The adds are written cleverly sometimes but the result is the same. They want you to have sex with them in exchange for its value. even if they offer money they use terms like " i have a room to sublet and i will reduce the rent by 50% if you wash my cat and perform “other duties”
Its a haven for freeks. and the administrators at the site spend alot of time reading the hidden message to stop this but its too much.
Craigslist is based in the Bay area… so you also assume where some of these characters are coming from… :-o
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@Imperious:
not sure if I want to know, but what is craigslist?
Craigslist is a classic “bait and switch” internet site where anybody can post a “job” or a place to rent or sell and buy stuff. The problem is 90% of these people have this agenda where they for example offer to sell a sofa and somehow some sex must be exchanged to “trade” for the sofa… The adds are written cleverly sometimes but the result is the same. They want you to have sex with them in exchange for its value. even if they offer money they use terms like " i have a room to sublet and i will reduce the rent by 50% if you wash my cat and perform “other duties”
Its a haven for freeks. and the administrators at the site spend alot of time reading the hidden message to stop this but its too much.
Craigslist is based in the Bay area… so you also assume where some of these characters are coming from… :-o
Sounds like fun. :)
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Yea right buddy!
heres an example:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-04-04-rent-sex-craigslist_x.htm
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Off topic.
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@ncscswitch:
Off topic.
You are just WAITING for a reason to close this thread, arn’t you Switch? hehe
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Subject is your icon.
Next post is on that topic or I lock it.
I didn’t create the thread with that name, so I am not responsible for the very narrow subject matter. My job is just to keep all threads on topic (or to try to defuse issues)
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So anyone else (other then those of us currently doing it) going to use real life pictures for avatars now that we can?
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I’m thinking about Photoshopping my baby’s head over yours…then no one could top our avatars!!!11!!
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I’m thinking about Photoshopping my baby’s head over yours…then no one could top our avatars!!!11!!
Woot! My average body on a REALLY cute baby’s face! We could use it to take over the world! Get teh avatar voted as UN Sec Gen, revoke all soverieng rights to all nations, absorb 10% of every nation’s military assets and dissolve the rest and rule the world!
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hey zooey? where do you live, im presently in chattanooga but im from kingston





