Terrorist plot in NYC foiled

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I'm surprised no one brought this up before me.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/21/ny.bomb.plot/index.html

Fox "News" version:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520908,00.html

BBC article which I have not read.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8061772.stm

Summary: Reported in slightly different ways by CNN and Fox "News". 4 guys wanted to blow up a synogogue. They bought fake explosives from FBI agents (which they thought were real). Police nabbed the bad guys. 3 of 4 were US citizens.


CNN text:
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Three of the four men arrested for allegedly planning bomb attacks on Jewish targets in New York are expected to appear in federal court Thursday, the U.S. attorney's office said.

The group allegedly plotted to bomb two New York synagogues and wanted to use surface-to-air missiles to fire at U.S. military planes, said a criminal complaint filed this week in White Plains, New York.

"Four individuals were arrested for planting bombs in front of two [Jewish facilities] in the area," said Raymond Kelly, New York City police commissioner.

The charges are based on information from an FBI informant, with whom the men met as they plotted to carry out their attacks, authorities said.

"While the weapons provided to the defendants by the cooperating witness were fake, the defendants thought they were absolutely real," acting U.S. Attorney Lev L. Dassin said in a statement.

Added Kelly: "The bombs had been made by FBI technicians. They were totally inert; no one was ever at risk or in danger of being injured."

Suspects James Cromitie, David Williams and Onta Williams -- all U.S. citizens -- were at the federal courthouse Thursday morning being processed, FBI spokeswoman Monica McLean told CNN.

The fourth suspect, Haitian citizen Laguerre Payen, is not at the courthouse but was undergoing "appropriate medical treatment," McLean said. She did not know for what condition or where Payen was being treated, but said he would appear before a judge "as soon as he is able to."

The charges against the men include conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in the United States and conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles. The charges carry a maximum sentence of life in prison.

The four men were arrested Wednesday after they had planted the fake bombs at the synagogue in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, New York, authorities said.

The NYPD used an 18-wheeler truck to block their getaway, then punched out the tinted windows on their sport-utility vehicle before dragging the suspects onto the street, said Kelly.

The U.S. attorney's statement said the informant met with Cromitie in June 2008 in Newburgh, New York.

During that meeting, Cromitie allegedly said his parents live in Afghanistan, that he was angry over the U.S. war there, and that he was interested "doing something to America."

The four men began meeting with the informant at a home equipped with concealed video and audio equipment, plotting to bomb the synagogue and Jewish community center, the statement said.

They also conducted surveillance, including photographs, of an Air National Guard base where they wanted to blow up planes, the statement said. The informant provided the men with a surface-to-air guided missile and C-4 plastic explosives -- none of which could actually be used.

"The targeting of any house of prayer in the United States is a threat to all religious groups and all religious leaders have an obligation to speak out publicly against this planned outrage," said a statement from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights group

The group urged all Jewish institutions to tighten security at their facilities.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in a written statement, congratulated the law enforcement agencies that made the arrests.
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So three are US citizens and one's Haitian. Islam isn't mentioned in the CNN article but it's implied due to one guy's parents living in Afghanistan.

The Fox "News" version makes a much stronger implication of Islam and that heavenly rewards is a possible motivation (matyrdom).

Strangely, politics was injected into the Fox "News" article here:
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told FOX News that former President Bush and the Department of Homeland Security should be credited for keeping the country safe following the Sept. 11 attacks.

"Maybe the Bush administration might deserve a little credit for the fact that there's not been another attack on the United States of America since 9/11," McCain told FOX News.
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That's a bit odd since McCain, Septmeber 11th, and Bush have nothing to do with this story.

This story is currently front page on Fox "News"'s website, and was CNN's frontpage story earlier this morning, but is no longer. Didn't check the other sites.
 
That's an amazing arrest: waiting until after they planted the bombs really drives a nail in their convictions.
 
The government is trying to take away our right to keep and bear surface-to-air missiles!! :mad:
 
During that meeting, Cromitie allegedly said his parents live in Afghanistan, that he was angry over the U.S. war there, and that he was interested "doing something to America."
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How does a Haitian have parents in Afghanistan? That part is bs I'd say. an attempt to popularise conflict over there I'd say.
 
The BBC reports that all four men are Muslim.

The four, all Muslims, are to appear in a federal court in White Plains, New York later on Thursday.

They were named as James Cromitie (also known as Abdul Rahman), David Williams (aka Daoud and DL), Onta Williams (aka Hamza) and Laguerre Payen (aka Amin and Almondo).
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Four or five years ago, a local Jewish man who just happened to be a member of the JDL was turned in by his wife for plotting to bomb a local mosque. He was found to have pipe bombs and the architectural drawings of the building. Funny how that story didn't make international news...
 
Oh, c'mon. Next you will be trying to tell us they are a legitimate news organization.
 
Trying to kill Jews to 'hurt America'? That's pretty flattering. "We've done an analysis, and Jews are so valuable to America that they're our main target. Our secondary target will be multi-million dollar jets."
 
You could be forgiven for overestimating the Jewish influence in the US. When 1.7% of the population can convince the majority of the population to fund a regional superpower on another continent for half a decade, aswell as convince them that that part of the population is an integral part of the nations heritage; they must be doing something right.
 
Shekwan said:
You could be forgiven for overestimating the Jewish influence in the US. When 1.7% of the population can convince the majority of the population to fund a regional superpower on another continent for half a decade, aswell as convince them that that part of the population is an integral part of the nations heritage; they must be doing something right.
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:goodjob: Exactly. Although I'd say the numbers aren't as rigid as not every Jew is a zionist pro israeli lunatic nor are all the people that fit that description Jewish (fundamentalist christians for example)
 
Without an Israel there can be no apocalypse. :lol:
 
Does anyone else think that these islamists become dumber every day? Walking into the synagogue of New York with C4 and a missile? :lol: They didn't have a clue how to build a proper bomb. Or how to tell whether its a real bomb when they get one.
Any neonazi could have done a "better" job and they are not known for their intelligence.

And the media claims it would have been a new 9/11. :rolleyes:
 
OP CNN Article said:
The fourth suspect, Haitian citizen Laguerre Payen, is not at the courthouse but was undergoing "appropriate medical treatment," McLean said. She did not know for what condition or where Payen was being treated, but said he would appear before a judge "as soon as he is able to."
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:eek: They’re waterboarding him! Prolly still trying to find that link to Saddam… err... wait… that was the last Administration. Please move on…

:D
 
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