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FBI: Calif. Man Hoped to Incite ‘Civil War’ by Framing ‘Anti-Government’ Right-Wing Groups for Terror Attack

Feb. 8, 2013 5:38pm Jason Howerton

Matthew Aaron Llaneza Charged in Bomb Plot, Wanted to Frame Anti Goverment Right Wing Groups

Credit: AP

Federal agents arrested 28-year-old California native Matthew Aaron Llaneza on Friday after he allegedly attempted to detonate what he thought was a car bomb outside a Bank of America in Oakland, according to the FBI. Llaneza, a Taliban sympathizer, plotted to blame the attack on right-wing, anti-government groups in a bid to incite a “civil war.”

“Llaneza’s arrest was the culmination of an undercover operation during which he was closely monitored by the FBI’s South Bay Joint Terrorism Task Force. Unbeknownst to Llaneza, the explosive device that he allegedly attempted to use had been rendered inoperable by law enforcement and posed no threat to the public. Llaneza was charged this morning by criminal complaint with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction against property used in an activity that affects interstate or foreign commerce,” according to an FBI press release.

Prior to his arrest, Llaneza met with a man he thought was connected with the Taliban and the mujahidin in Afghanistan — though he was actually an undercover FBI agent. The terrorist suspect suggested carrying out an attack against a bank in the San Francisco Bay Area using a car bomb. He planned to carry out the false flag attack and make it appear as if “the responsible party was an umbrella organization for a loose collection of anti-government militias and their sympathizers.”

“Llaneza’s stated goal was to trigger a governmental crackdown, which he expected would trigger a right-wing counter-response against the government followed by, he hoped, civil war,” the FBI release states.

According to the criminal complaint, Llaneza drove the SUV that he thought was equipped with an explosive device and parked it beneath an overhang of the bank building and he “armed” the trigger divide, a cell phone. After retreating on foot to a safe location, he placed two calls to the trigger device attached to the fake bomb. Once it was clear that he intended to successfully carry out the attack, federal agents arrested him.

The original target was reportedly a Federal Reserve building, however, Llaneza decided against it due to the strong building security. Officials did not immediate reveal if there was a specific group that he hoped to blame for the terrorist act.

Llaneza appeared in federal court in Oakland on Friday morning. If convicted of plotting to carry out the terrorist attack, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

(H/T: Washington Examiner)

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LouisianaPatriot
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:32am
mrunner

“@Toon. Rehabilitated? Hell, Rat Bastard Obama will probably pardon him and make him assistant to the Secretary of State or Attorney General. As far as the community organizer and cheif is concerned- this young man has “the right stuff”!

Mrunner… I literally laughed out loud and enjoyed the best sustained chuckle for that one!!! Thank you. You are probably right.

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KURT1010
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:00am
He is behind the times….”Charlie Manson” HELTER SKELTER

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- old blacksmith
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:33pm
  Manson = “healter” skelter
  Bloody misspelling compelling evidence.
  
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- KURT1010
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 8:28am
  What the hell are you talking about ? HELTER SKELTER is correct. Chk your facts before you reply to a post !
  
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winin2012
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:38am
Hmm, a Taliban sympathizer planned to blow something up, blame it on right wing nuts, to create a civil war. Then what? Once weakened, awaken sleeper cells and bring over Taliban fighters to fight the winner? Take over America? Frankly, the Russians have a better plan for that. Sit back and let the progressive destroy America by themselves– then step in. Never firing a shot.

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- barber2
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:42am
  Agree. Just buy media outlets like Lefty Soros did…propaganda control equals mind control…
  
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battles
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 8:39am
Actually, in the end I believe it will be that deceiver Obama who will seek to provoke civil war. He will think to use an uprising by the people to enact marshal law, then send in his Homeland Security Nazi goons door to door to slaughter as many people as possible, having declared some kind of national emergence whereby he attempts to confiscate all guns. This should not be unusual for someone who is a communist at heart like Stalin. He is already whispered to Putin his cooperative intentions to disarm America’s nuclear defenses, something that is being implemented at this very moment. Our good friends, the Chinese, are flexing their muscles with Japan to test our communist leader’s resolve to defend Japan. Obama is going about trying to disarm America in every way and out personal safety and country is in great peril. Americans must refuse to give up a single gun or gun accessory.

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NoMoMrNiceGuy
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 8:19am
I hope that everyone is ready for the inevitable fall out of what is taking place in this world. When your chat boards are gone and you have to fend for yourself in the REAL world. I hope you are prepared.

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Marsh626
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:42am
That was actually a really clever idea. It could have very possibly worked if it was the real deal. Islamic jihadists are getting more sophisticated in their schemes to tear down the “infidel” West. Never underestimate them as a bunch of savages living in a cave. They’re quite often your neighbors and they probably have advanced degrees hanging on their walls…

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FANGS
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 3:16am
Lets see,? Democrat, Barney frank, Everyone gets a house law = 2008 Housing collapse and Wall street Collapse = Millions of Family’s lose everything, Democrat obama pillages America ,in the trillions.America enters Depression. deep water horizon explosion, democrat inspection said everything was safe 1 month before it blew. = Drilling permit bans, 11 Murdered …. Fast & Furious = Gun control over 600 Mexicans murdered. Multiple School shootings by Public school brainwashed democrats = Gun bans. Hundreds of children Murdered. 9-11-12 Bengazi terrorist attack ,Hillary,Obama, Panetta, Rice Cover up and lie to America. = 4 Americans Murdered…. Lying Media, Bullying Unions, Racists,vile speach, Govt. Corruption, Pillaging, Money laundering Bribery,Extortion, Bribing Judges = , 28% unemployment, 16.5 trillion in debt, Death threats and beatings By democrat protesters = coming civil war, Prosperity Manners, Morals , jobs aplenty Kindness, Charity, Peace, Loving Americans, Charity, Safety, Freedom. Gods will be done.

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blazingaway
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 2:50am
Weapon of mass destruction …. Take away the assault rifles and you will get more bombers

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FANGS
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 2:22am
He’ll probably be offered a job by Eric Holder. This is what happens when Democrats don’t follow or enforce any laws. And constant demonizing of good people by the Communist Media.. How many hundreds more of these left wing lunatics are out there. There’s one truth though to this story, There will be a Civil war. The bad people will learn a hard lesson.

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:38am
What happens when a guy sets up a bomb and the FBI isn’t in the loop? So far…they help set up the whole scene then arrest the guy for wanting to go along with it. Don’t get me wrong….I am glad the idiot was caught. Just wondering. Civil war will come and it will need no help from a fool nor the FBI.

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Mac_Wade
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:18am
Charlie Manson already tried this.

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The Big Mick
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 11:44pm
Comrades* my personal belief, and it is analysis, not, necessarily, ADVOCACY, is that without an American Revolution v3.0 your God Endowed, Unalienable, Individual Liberties will NOT survive.
I point to Walter Williams’ (no crazy Irishman he) April 7, 2010 column “Parting Company” and simply follow what Theologian Francis Schaeffer calls “the logical outcomes of presuppositions” ALL the way out. Williams’, much like Glenn, refuses to “follow the cogency”, but the Thoughtful Reader can quickly see where The Road of Principles ends up.
I suggest that if Your Sacred Liberties are going to survive, they will have to be defended and secured by a Community Mind that has rethought the likes of Timothy McVeigh as a kind of Avant-Garde Enfant Terrible.
For THAT Community To Be, the Progenitors and Leaders of American Revolution v3.0, “the men who spurred us on” of Pete Townsend’s “new revolution, the Authors of Townsend’s “The New Constitution”….for THAT 21st Century Continental Congress…the take away here should be “start RELEARNING and REFINING the Tried and True principles of Revolutionary ‘Cell” organization. Like the International IslamoTerrorists and the IRA before them, “keep it in the Family.” Relearn what the WW2 Resistance learned, what Mao learned, the Cong.
Avoid these kinds of amateur mistakes. You will be playing for the Sacred Liberties of your grandchildren.

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 11:46pm
  I use this not in the Marxist sense, but in the sense of Barry Fitzgerald as “Mickaleen Og Flynn” in “The Quiet Man”: “Well, it’s a fine, soft, night, so I think I’ll go and join me [IRA] comrades for a drink and talk a little Treason.”
  
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LOLgoaheadreportmebeotches
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 11:17pm
LOL all that rationale should be discarded because of one crazy ****! Yeah I’m validated in my perspectives and beliefs! Yaaay! #youcan’thandlethetruthblazers

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 11:50pm
  this could stand some unpacking, Lgo. As it stands—alone—it’s sorta “non sequitur.”
  
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Ernie Kaputnik
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 9:41pm
“…the explosive device…had been rendered inoperable by law enforcement and posed no threat to the public.”

Translation: The FBI was too incompetent to stop him before he planted the bomb, but fortunately the suspect was an idiot and too stupid to build a working bomb. Rather than admit they almost got people killed, the FBI has conveniently decided it’s better for public good to claim responsibility for the prevention of a terrorist attack despite being a day late and a dollar short.

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 9:31pm
Fact: Obama will fly terrorists in by the 10s of thousands, using political asylum as his cover. Crisis (never let it go to waste) has been engineered for this purpose. you wait and see. Sleeper cells await. Many of them manned by unwitting occupiers who have been holed up in education camps. learning of the wonders of islam and the evils of the straw man (“capitalism”), clueless as they are.
It’s happening right out in the open, in front of your eyes.
This comes straight out of the alinsky manual. Don’t even act surprised. Arm up! It will be up to those who’s “job” it is not. Those that have the “job” will be told to stand down or be fired (retirement and all, gone). It will be up to the citizen free of orders from above.
That’s the way it will be. Together we stand – Together they fall. They will be made quick work of, but it will not be done by Union led Government employees.

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- Canyouhearus
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:31pm
  @Ghandi was a Republican
  How many have already been given “refuge” in the good ole US of A? Just look around at the growth of mosques in the US. A bit frightening already!
  
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Carlinpa
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 8:57pm
Another ACTUALLY Violante and dangerous liberal.. well when you think about it, is there really any other kind?

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Antares2000
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 8:55pm
If anyone thinks that those around the world, aren’t paying attention to our politics, this story should change your mind. The politics of division by the administration have caused a rift, that our nations enemies are all too willing to explot, or at least try to. They don’t truly understand us, just like they didn’t understand our reaction after 9/11/01. They expected us to bicker with each other, instead we united and kicked ass! As Carlos Mencia so put it, “We only argue with each other when we’re bored. We love drama.”

Common Sense has come to FaceBook! Check out Citizens for Common Sense!
http://www.facebook.com/#!/citizens4commonsense

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 8:27pm
Thank you, all that serve in the FBI.

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ChiefGeorge
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 8:25pm
This guy has many well wishers just like our socal cop killer. That guy also is blaming the right for everything while carrying out his own holy war in the name of his leftist idols. They cannot see the evil they say they hate from the right…which does not even exist and they become the evil they say they hate. This is got to be one of the devils finest brain games. We live in dangerous times cannot be over stated and stated enough.

If civil war comes it will not be because of a single solitary pin pick b-0-m_b-ing of a bank or other. It be start when the dollar collapses. The crash of the dollar will bring out the worst in people and the first folks to hit them streets will not be the right wing nut cases, it will be the irresponsible lefties who believe life is a dream and want it all without any effort.

The Left will be the ones that cause the crack down on everyone and the Right will lose their weapons or have to fight back…that will be the time mens souls and of right and wrong will be once again forged in the furnance of human misery and turmoil. Its coming folks…unfortunately its coming.

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Sarah_Palin_Is_God
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 8:16pm
More conservative propaganda BS. There isn’t a conservative alive that wouldn’t pay for the privilege of being martyred by the current administration. Bunch of nut cases one and all. Go back to stroking your snakes and Bibles.

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 11:02pm
  Be GLAD to, SAP, if you’d be willing to LEAVE US THE HE LL ALONE!
  Since that doesn’t seem to be any part of your plan, you’re just going to have to deal with the Fact we ain’t going anywhere and if you want to MAKE us it’s eventually gonna cost you in blood.
  If you think the outcome of that struggle is a forgone conclusion, go right on thinking it. You may find it is YOU against The Wall while “the shotguns sing the song”, as Pete Townsend wrote.
  
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P4cooler
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 8:08pm
This is what the left has been doing ever since Obama sat in the White House. They have been jabbing and poking us with sticks going on the 5th year now. When we respond and ask “What the hell are you doing”? With media camera’s rolling..The left says “You right wing extremest better tone down your rhetoric”!!! Of course the media never sees any of the jabbing & poking. Look at the hypocrisy of the left. President Obama wanted George W Bush CRUCIFIED when he used water boarding on a select few terrorist detainees. President Obama uses drones to kill Americans with no due process and murderous collateral loss of human life, women & children. We hear nothing but crickets from the criminal media. President Obama wants to push gun control so he murders over 300 people with his Fast & Furious operation. The media is silent. He rammed Obamacare upon us with 100% lies. The media trumpeted every single one of Obama’s lies & talking points. They made false stories about Tea Party members spitting on one of their black members of congress. This goof Llaneza is typical of how a leftist socialist acts, a public sector union thug acts, and the arrogant Obama himself works. All about optics, stirring up fights etc… 47 more months of this criminal fraud president, unless he finally gets thrown out of office – should Americans wake up out of their Obama Kool Aid trance.

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- ChiefGeorge
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 8:28pm
  47 more months? Are you sure about that? Not me!
  
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- FANGS
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 2:39am
  I’ll bet there’s many x-Military just looking for the perfect shot. Americans punish traitors.
  
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publicas
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 7:32pm
Maybe the FBI goofed? Maybe they were supposed to let it happen…again and some SAC didn’t get the word? Better yet, the SAC decided he was an American first and put a stop to it. Sure could use an SAI Lewis Erskine again…

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deltagreen
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 7:14pm
Can we have an original plot? Guys you used this one at OKC with McVeigh and he outsmarted and eluded ya and made the darn thing work. Thank goodness this towelhead wasn’t that bright.

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 11:17pm
  NONE of them seem to be and I find that curious. They seem to have forgotten their Ancestors’ saying: “My brother and I against my cousin, my cousin and I against the stranger.”
  
  Something very interesting seems to be going on here. I took an M.Div. from Duke Divinity and one of the fascinating aspects of American Religious History is how Religious Movements ADJUST their beliefs to ENCULTURATE in America. The Splits in Judaism are a classic example. Could it be that life here in the Promised Land has, as it has done in the past, BROKEN DOWN the CLAN bonds of the Islamacist Community?
  These guys seem like Jethro Bodine does The KKKlan.
  
  Having said that, I would suggest to any 21st Century Analog to the Sons of Liberty wannabes out there [PLEASE GOD, LET there be some out there] that you begin to consider very carefully how an American Revolution v3.0 could, in its Birthing Stages, avoid such idiotic mistakes.
  
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dodgedart1966
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 6:49pm
Aren’t the majority of violent extremists left wing nut jobs anyway?
I wonder why we don’t hear more about that fact……………………………….

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china clipper
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 6:43pm
Seems like someone who could work for the msm.

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