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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How about that picture of yours Jermofoot? Is that your baby or just some funny avatar you found? =p
Sorry…been on vacation. That’s me & my boy.
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He’s so cute!
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He’s so cute!
Thanks, man! 100 times as much in real life.
Hes going to be a soccer player……he is…he is! :-P
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Guys, guys, guys, enough. You guys are like a bunch of school boys at an all boy school. Sure Jennifer is the best looking thing on this board since the new layout, but there is no need to drool over her photo.
hahha I’m just messing guys, of course shes hot as hell.
God Bless ya Jennifer, you have ever quality a “true” man can desire. :-)
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Guys, guys, guys, enough. You guys are like a bunch of school boys at an all boy school. Sure Jennifer is the best looking thing on this board since the new layout, but there is no need to drool over her photo.
hahha I’m just messing guys, of course shes hot as hell.
God Bless ya Jennifer, you have ever quality a “true” man can desire. :-)
I sure hope that means I’m smart, a good tactical player and I don’t have boils all over my face….
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Guys, guys, guys, enough. You guys are like a bunch of school boys at an all boy school. Sure Jennifer is the best looking thing on this board since the new layout, but there is no need to drool over her photo.
I’m used to seeing pretty girls, but I just find it surprising that a girl would flaunt her sexiness in an A&A forum.
Actually I think Jermo’s icon wins for my favorite. That is one happy baby :lol:
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She indeed has a man MuthaRussia… One blessed guy…
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You guys make me sick! Bothering Jennifer with your questions, just cause she is a pretty good looking lady in her avatar. Go back where you guys came from!
……so Jennifer can I get your number? :-P J/K
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You guys make me sick! Bothering Jennifer with your questions, just cause she is a pretty good looking lady in her avatar. Go back where you guys came from!
Hey I had a right to ask about it, since she was the one who dared to show it! As an example, you wouldn’t go around wearing an offensive shirt unless you wanted the reaction and knew you would get a reaction. :-P
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i dont care what anyone says, she is smokin hot and an a and a rarity to boot……jen you have the guys here tore up
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I still say she needs a sandwich… quite a few actually.
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Jen,
Nice boobs and butt! Wanna have a long erotic night of hot A&A action? You bring the game, I will bring the chips and zima!
(that was sarcasm btw - except the nice boobs and but part)
I avoided this thread for a while, cuz I knew it would be a bunch of geeks drooling over a pretty girl. Not to call names, I am a fellow geek (I started playing the game at 13 when it came out). But outside of that what is the point of having an ongoing post about how attractive Jen is? I understand that it is cool she plays the game, and is also attractive. But I don’t go to this forum to flirt or drool over a picture. I come to talk about the game, and some of the political stuff.
Jen, with that in mind I would like to ask you a question (this is obviously not a flirting/drooling thing because of the question, and at the same time it is not meant to be an attack). What was the point of posting your picture? You are not a dumb person, this is an A&A board and I think you knew the response you would get (you also posted a picture you thought was you at your best).
Me and you see eye to eye on a lot of things, and posting your picture does not change how I view you (other than why you did it). When you are in an atmosphere like this forum, you had to know you would get the responses you have gotten. Most males on this forum will treat your arguments differently because of the picture (don’t argue with the pretty girl).
One of the best things about forums is that they are faceless. I can’t tell you how many times (in real life) I have had to listen to some girl ramble on about her shoes, the mall, or how she aspires to one day be a fashion designer because she was attractive and I wanted something. It’s the game males/females play, so be it. Why bring it here?
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I dont drink Zima.
This is the avatar I use everywhere, except my online D&D game and that’s because we’re supposed to post a picture of the character.
I use it because it’s mine. I don’t have to worry about anyone else having the same one. Also, i’ve actually met two guys from online in the real world because they recognized me from my Avatar as I strolled through Woodfield Shopping Center. (I’m there a lot…more then here, if you can believe that!)
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I was going for ultra geek with the Zima thing… but good to know you don’t. Just say no.
I get what you are saying Jen, but at the same time I have to call BS. If I were to post a picture of me (when I was younger) I would have to pick the one where I am sprawled out on the floor drunk new years eve 90. My friends messed with me and set up the pic. It’s funny as hell, and it’s me at my worst, but I hardly think it would cause females to pay attention “DAMN IS HE HOT PASSED OUT LIKE THAT!” lol
Ya could have had a pic of you while you were preg. One when you got married. Hell, one of you sprawled out on the ground like me. Why the swimsuit pic? I think jerm has one of him and his kid, why not something like that?
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I could scan a few more. I’m planning to get up a few dozen on my website later, if I ever get around to updating the dang thing!
That one’s just readily available and I think I look good in it. I have one of me in a flight suit with my helmet on too, but you can’t see much of anything there. I have one of me in my USAF-ROTC Exhibition Rifle Drill Team uniform, complete with asgot. That would work too, I suppose.
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dont listen to him, keep this one
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just to set the record straight here, i know most people here are considered geeks, myself i hardly know a damn thing about computers……i come from a very heavy sports background and spent 13 years as a construction electrician before my present job. i just love wwii history and also civil war and history in general, my wife got me a and a for a christmas present and i was hooked, i also play no video games whatsoever and am now very active in camping, fishing and paintball(which is hell on a 42 year old)…anyway my point is im not your typical geek(just and a and a geek)
ps: jen, i think you are cool
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dont listen to him, keep this one
TC:
Were you an electrician (union electrician?) or an electrical service technician?
I was an electrician (IBEW) for 8 years but I was actually more of an electrical service tech/project manager.
And I have this really cute picture in uniform holding an M16 in the present arms position.
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i was a union electrician out of local 270 in oak ridge tn, worked in toledo, oh and detroit, mi some but never make it to chicago
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