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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Back on the rant front…
Being on vacation, and because your company gives you a cell phone, a lap top, and a wireless broadband card, they expect you to still be answering your phone and checking your e-mail while you are on vacation…
I had more than a dozen phone calls TODAY, with multiple voice mails from co-workers (despite my outgoing message stating I am on vacation until 1 OCT) about inane CRAP, and asking why I had not responded to e-mails…
Can you REALLY take a vacation in the modern era of wireless telecommunications :?
I left the laptop and the wireless card at work, and my phone ringer is OFF! :-D
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That’s why the military is great! When I’m on leave, I can expect NO calls about work, unless there’s some paperwork that needs some information that only I can give. Other than that, I’m kinda tired of it… :roll:
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I also don’t like people who eat things with faces on them. They should rip the faces off first, THEN eat it!
I’m all over the place on this one. I’m thinking about things you can eat with faces, as usual I have a hard time keeping my mind out of the gutter…
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@ncscswitch:
Back on the rant front…
Being on vacation, and because your company gives you a cell phone, a lap top, and a wireless broadband card, they expect you to still be answering your phone and checking your e-mail while you are on vacation…
I had more than a dozen phone calls TODAY, with multiple voice mails from co-workers (despite my outgoing message stating I am on vacation until 1 OCT) about inane CRAP, and asking why I had not responded to e-mails…
Can you REALLY take a vacation in the modern era of wireless telecommunications :?
I left the laptop and the wireless card at work, and my phone ringer is OFF! :-D
u need to put in autoresponse on ur phone and email sayin
"me on vacation
u gtfo unless it emergency
if it not emergency and u still call/email, call ur next of kin and funeral director first"
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Or how bout this:
“Hey Buddy, there’s no “u” in vacation”.
That’ll teach’um.
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Well, I could not check e-mail right now if I wanted to… I deliberately left the laptop at work, and I do not have access to our secured network on my home system.
The phone voice DOES say that I will be out of the office until 1 OCT, they call and leave voice mail anyway…
As for the spelling thing…
The one I use at work is after my Ops Manager lets fly with "There is no I in TEAM:
To which I respond, “But there is an M-E in it” :-D -
@ncscswitch:
Well, I could not check e-mail right now if I wanted to… I deliberately left the laptop at work, and I do not have access to our secured network on my home system.
The phone voice DOES say that I will be out of the office until 1 OCT, they call and leave voice mail anyway…
As for the spelling thing…
The one I use at work is after my Ops Manager lets fly with "There is no I in TEAM:
To which I respond, “But there is an M-E in it” :-DThere’s also M-E-A-T in it, so I say, you want me to work, let’s see some sirloin first, mister! Booyah!
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He said MEAT…. :-D :-D
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@ncscswitch:
The phone voice DOES say that I will be out of the office until 1 OCT, they call and leave voice mail anyway…
Look, idiots (90%+) will assume ur still checking ur regular voice mail.
If you leave a message like “I am NOT CHECKING MY VOICE MAIL U IDIOTS U NEED TO HAVE SOMEONE ELSE HELP U” (say that part REAL loud), then they will try other means.
u gotta be like REAL obvious about it tho . . . ppl can be reeaaal stupid. if ur all polite and like “im not back until Oct 1”, they like “OKs tee heez, imma leave a voice mail, he never said that he isn’t going to be working while he’s on vacation tee hee heez!!!1!”
I hate working with idiots, but that’s wat u get, o wellz.
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@ncscswitch:
The phone voice DOES say that I will be out of the office until 1 OCT, they call and leave voice mail anyway…
Look, idiots (90%+) will assume ur still checking ur regular voice mail.
If you leave a message like “I am NOT CHECKING MY VOICE MAIL U IDIOTS U NEED TO HAVE SOMEONE ELSE HELP U” (say that part REAL loud), then they will try other means.
u gotta be like REAL obvious about it tho . . . ppl can be reeaaal stupid. if ur all polite and like “im not back until Oct 1”, they like “OKs tee heez, imma leave a voice mail, he never said that he isn’t going to be working while he’s on vacation tee hee heez!!!1!”
I hate working with idiots, but that’s wat u get, o wellz.
Yes,you can make big fools out of people. its fun. I sometimes pretend I’m psychic and come out with these visions that are really obvious but people still fall for them.
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I hate people who think you can just believe something for no reason. If you cannot provide a logical reason, then I see no point in taking or listening to what you are saying.
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I hate people who think you can just believe something for no reason. If you cannot provide a logical reason, then I see no point in taking or listening to what you are saying.
Logical reasons are easy to concoct. That’s why I demand empirical reasons.
But I don’t hate those people - that’s most of my extended family. I’m a skeptic in a very church-active family. Not conservative or fundamentalist, but very actively involved in churchwork. So if I hated my whole family for their superstition, that would put me in an awkward spot.
I just accept it as part of human nature. Not everyone is comfortable challenging and rejecting the basic worldview they were taught as children - it’s a pretty traumatic process.
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My new rant…
People who give you Karma (especially smites), but don’t post the fact or why.
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@Emperor:
My new rant…
People who give you Karma (especially smites), but don’t post the fact or why.
I just like clicking stuff. You were posting in the wrong place at the wrong time, brotha.
(actually, I haven’t smitten/smited/smote anyone here)
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I admit, I have given you several. But based on your total, I am a VERY small portion of your smites.
I am just waiting to crack 100… no idea who my Secret Admirers are… :-D
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Switch I would’ve just smited you but its GD … if you are in another one of my unread threads i will :wink:
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Thanks! I just hit triple digits!
I am so popular!
:-D
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What I don’t like is that there is no candidate that i particularly like , primaries are soon and I can’t even start a thread to rant about it.
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I think we should bring back PD but try to keep it on the Presidential Race rather than all of politics.
This way we can keep those damn canadians out of the conversations :wink: -
@AJ:
I think we should bring back PD but try to keep it on the Presidential Race rather than all of politics.
This way we can keep those damn canadians out of the conversations :wink:that reminds me and the fact the dollar is wrecked. its ruined. look at the euro and canada and the pound then look at us. Then tell me we are still the best. How do we manage to be number 1? and have a wrecked dollar, a wreck school syestem, a the inabilty to wage war, our obesity problem, and we have NO allies.
America is a bunch of stupid fat ignorant pigs. Everything is so f*cked up and yet were number 1? not for long is alll i have to tell you people. hope that not a shocker. The people who run our oligarchy are retards.
Rant done
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