A 21-year-old U.S. citizen who called himself Muhammad Hussain, according to U.S. officials, allegedly tried to blow up a military recruitment center with a fake car bomb built by the FBI.
A 21-year-old Baltimore construction worker, who drew federal scrutiny after he boasted on Facebook about his devotion to violent jihad, was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly tried to blow up a U.S. military recruitment center with a dummy car bomb built by the FBI.
The dramatic take-down is the second FBI sting since Thanksgiving against an alleged homegrown terrorist trying to detonate a powerful car bomb. It raised fresh concerns about how English-speaking extremists from Al Qaeda and its allies are increasingly able to recruit Americans willing to commit mass violence.
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(CBS) More and more the terror threat in this country comes from within. On Wednesday a young Muslim construction worker - a naturalized U.S. citizen from Nicaragua - was charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against a military target in suburban Baltimore.
CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports the suspect was caught in an FBI sting. Another suspected case of homegrown terror, another U.S. citizen, plotting to blow up Americans.
CBSNews.com Report: Terror in the U.S.
Wednesday it was 21-year-old Antonio Martinez, also known as Muhammad Hussein, a recent convert to Islam. He was arrested by federal agents Wednesday morning after attempting to detonate a car bomb outside an armed forces recruiting center in Maryland. The bomb was a fake, supplied to him by FBI undercover agents.
"Because the FBI was controlling the weapons that were used, there was no actual danger to the public as a result of the operation," said U.S. attorney Rod J. Rosenstein...
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Geraldo Rivera Schools Bill O’Reilly About Recent Domestic Terror Plots Being Fake
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Dec 9, 2010
Rivera points out that every terror plot was fake and could not have happened without the FBi radicalizing and setting up Muslim patsies, before providing them with explosives.
THE NEW YORK TIMES * * * * * Thursday October 28, 1993 Page A1 "Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart By Ralph Blumenthal Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after the blast. The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad Salem, should be used, the informer said. The account, which is given in the transcript of hundreds of hours of tape recordings that Mr. Salem secretly made of his talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as being in a far better position than previously known to foil the February 26th bombing of New York City's tallest towers. The explosion left six people dead, more than a thousand people injured, and damages in excess of half-a-billion dollars. Four men are now on trial in Manhattan Federal Court [on charges of involvement] in that attack. Mr. Salem, a 43-year-old former Egyptian Army officer, was used by the Government [of the United States] to penetrate a circle of Muslim extremists who are now charged in two bombing cases: the World Trade Center attack, and a foiled plot to destroy the United Nations, the Hudson River tunnels, and other New York City landmarks. He is the crucial witness in the second bombing case, but his work for the Government was erratic, and for months before the World Trade Center blast, he was feuding with the F.B.I. Supervisor `Messed It Up' After the bombing, he resumed his undercover work. In an undated transcript of a conversation from that period, Mr. Salem recounts a talk he had had earlier with an agent about an unnamed F.B.I. supervisor who, he said, "came and messed it up." "He requested to meet me in the hotel," Mr. Salem says of the supervisor. "He requested to make me to testify, and if he didn't push for that, we'll be going building the bomb with a phony powder, and grabbing the people who was involved in it. But since you, we didn't do that." The transcript quotes Mr. Salem as saying that he wanted to complain to F.B.I. Headquarters in Washington about the Bureau's failure to stop the bombing, but was dissuaded by an agent identified as John Anticev. Mr. Salem said Mr. Anticev had told him, "He said, I don't think that the New York people would like the things out of the New York Office to go to Washington, D.C." Another agent, identified as Nancy Floyd, does not dispute Mr. Salem's account, but rather, appears to agree with it, saying of the `New York people': "Well, of course not, because they don't want to get their butts chewed."
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See also:
Mossad Link to First WTC Bombing Raises Eyebrows
Damage Caused by the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing
The 9/11 WTC Collapses: An Audio-Video Analysis
