‘A Dark Day’: Oregon Bomb Suspect Made a Video ‘Sheik Osama Style’
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Somali-born university student met with an undercover FBI agent in August at a Portland hotel and told him he had found the perfect location for a terrorist attack: the city’s annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
Mohamed Osman Mohamud told the agent that he had dreamed of carrying out an attack for years, and the city’s Pioneer Courthouse Square would be packed with thousands, “a huge mass that will … be attacked in their own element with their families celebrating the holidays,” according to an affidavit.
On Friday, Mohamud parked what he thought was a bomb-laden van near the ceremony and then went to a nearby train station, where he dialed a cell phone that he believed would detonate the vehicle. Instead, federal authorities moved in and arrested him. No one was hurt.
The case is the latest in a string of alleged terrorist plots by U.S. citizens or residents, including one at Times Square in which a Pakistan-born man pleaded guilty earlier this year to trying to set off a car bomb at a busy street corner.
Officials said Mohamud had no formal ties to foreign terror groups, although he had reached out to suspected terrorists in Pakistan.
Authorities have not explained how a young Muslim man described by friends as an average university student who drank an occasional beer and hung out with fraternity friends became so radicalized.
Mohamud is scheduled to appear in court on Monday, and it wasn’t clear if he had a lawyer yet.
FBI agents say they began investigating after receiving a tip from an unidentified person who expressed concern about Mohamud.
At 15, he told undercover agents, he made a prayer for guidance, “about whether I should … go, you know, and make jihad in a different country or to make like an operation here.”
Mohamud graduated from high school in Beaverton, although few details of his time there were available Saturday. He dropped out of Oregon State University in Corvallis on Oct. 6, the school said. He hadn’t declared a major.
Yosof Wanly, imam at the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center in Corvallis, said Mohamud was a normal student who went to athletic events, drank the occasional beer and was into rap music and culture.
Wanly said Mohamud was religious but didn’t come to the mosque consistently.
Beginning in August 2009, court documents allege, Mohamud began e-mail communications with a friend overseas who had studied in Oregon, asking how he could travel to Pakistan and join the fight for jihad.
The e-mail exchanges led the FBI to believe that Mohamud’s friend in Pakistan “had joined others involved in terrorist activities” and was inviting Mohamud to join him, prosecutors say.
Mohamud tried to board a flight to Kodiak, Alaska, on June 14 of this year from Portland but wasn’t allowed to board and was interviewed by the FBI, prosecutors say. Mohamud told the FBI he wanted to earn money fishing and then travel to join “the brothers.” He said he had previously hoped to travel to Yemen but had never obtained a ticket or a visa.
Less than two weeks later an agent e-mailed Mohamud, pretending to be affiliated with one of the people overseas whom Mohamud had tried to contact.
Undercover agents then set up a series of face-to-face meetings with Mohamud at hotels in Portland and Corvallis. They persuaded Mohamud they were in contact with a “council” of jihadists that were interested in him, the documents say.
During their first meeting on July 30, Mohamud told an agent there were a number of ways he could help “the cause,“ ranging from praying five times a day to ”becoming a martyr.”
Mohamud replied he “thought of putting an explosion together but that he needed help doing so,” the documents say.
At a second meeting on Aug. 19 at a Portland hotel, the agent brought another undercover agent, the documents said, and Mohamud told them he had selected Pioneer Courthouse Square for the bombing.
On Nov. 4, in the backcountry along Oregon’s coast, agents convinced Mohamud that he was testing an explosive device — although the explosion was controlled by agents rather than the youth.
The affidavit said Mohamud was warned several times about the seriousness of his plan, that women and children could die, and that he could back out.
Prosecutors say after the trip to the backcountry, Mohamud made a video in the presence of one of the undercover agents, putting on clothes he described as “Sheik Osama style:” a white robe, red and white headdress, and camouflage jacket. He read a statement speaking of his dream of bringing “a dark day” on Americans and blaming his family for getting in the way.
“To my parents who held me back from Jihad in the cause of Allah. I say to them … if you — if you make allies with the enemy, then Allah’s power … will ask you about that on the day of judgment, and nothing that you do can hold me back,” he said.
Friday, an agent and Mohamud drove into downtown Portland to the white van that carried six 55-gallon drums with detonation cords and plastic caps, but all of them were inert.
Authorities said they allowed the plot to proceed to obtain evidence to charge the suspect with attempt.
White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said Saturday that President Barack Obama was aware of the FBI operation before Friday’s arrest and was assured that the public was not in danger.
Tens of thousands of Somalis have resettled in the United States since their country plunged into lawlessness in 1991, and the U.S. has boosted aid to the country. In August, the U.S. Justice Department unsealed an indictment naming 14 people accused of being a deadly pipeline routing money and fighters from the U.S. to al-Shabab, an al-Qaida affiliated group in Mohamud’s native Somalia.
FBI agent E.K. Wilson said there is no apparent connection between the bomb plot in Portland and the investigation he’s overseeing into about 20 men who left Minneapolis to join al-Shabab in Somalia.
Officials have been working with Muslim leaders across the United States, particularly with the Somali community in Minnesota, trying to combat the radicalization.
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Associated Press writers Nedra Pickler, Darlene Superville and Lolita C. Baldor in Washington, William McCall in Portland, Carrie Antlfinger in Milwaukee and Amy Forliti in Minneapolis contributed to this report.
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unsafe
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:47amAnd we get to pay for him to live for ever in jail. Kill the ***** and show them this is what well happen to you here in the USA no more nice guy. You have no rights any more….
Report Post »quicker
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:46amAdd your comments
Report Post »ConsChristian
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:44amThere was a piece on the news about this guy showing interviews from his Oregon classmates. They all thought he was such a nice guy. Really you liberal Oregon idiots? What was is you liked, the Satanic eyebrows or the gay pouty lips? Or was it his name, Mohamed Osman Mohamud?
powhatan
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:38amwith holder on the case i am sure justice will be served……..for the somali/muslim people anyway
Report Post »LadyLibertea
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:37amSomeone in Corvallis lit his mosque on fire last night. I thought that would have made news on the blaze by now.
Report Post »alcarfl
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:44amWhat a shame. Twenty eight hundred more lightening strikes, please..
Report Post »alcarfl
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:52amApparently more accelerant was required to complete this mission. Obviously an inside job. Infidels have no access to heavily guarded mosques, day or night.
Report Post »Thomas Parker
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 12:37pmYou will see more of that if the Feds continue to play games while the Islamists do little to reign in their nutjobs.
Report Post »LadyLibertea
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 12:37pmlol…yes….I guess a cop drove by and saw the smoke…darnit.
Report Post »Thelma Lightspeed
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:21amIsn’t it wonderful? We are at war with Islam and the Islamists in this country move about with greater ease than native born Americans.
Insanity such as the aforementioned will eventually get a lot more Americans slaughtered by Islamic terrorists.
Islam radicalized that third world loser you Leftist twits.
Report Post »ThisAmericanVoice
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:12amIf anything other than putting this teen bomber to death is done than the legal system and the public have no one else to blame but themselves when the next attack is carried out successful or not. Despite what mr. obombu you thinks you can not reason with this people. This is not a war, this is not a conflict, this is a DIEASE AN MELIGANTE INFECTION OF HUMANITY. I have not heard or seen any medical practice in which the affliction is reasoned with. They are at least held in check and that is only until a way is found to cure and or remove it. Either way the disease is over come it is killed no longer allowed to exist.
For all of you that are revering up with “ Forgive those that have sinned against you “ or maybe you find “Turn the other cheek” more to your liking you ought to read “ I am not here to change my Father’s laws” and to me murdering or planning to murder even one man is enough to draw the harshest of judgments.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 1:17pmUnfortunately the maximum punishment for “attempting to use a WMD” is life in prison.
Report Post »TattooQ
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 11:09amWhile we’re talking jihad, two more potential cases in the last eight days . First , an individual named Emad Hatem Abdullah, of Little Rock, AK , was throwing explosives out a car window in Smyth Co. Virginia (dry run ? I wonder.) and arrested by an alert trooper. Second case is that of a Houston area businessman, Samir Mahmoud Itani, who sold thirty – six million in potentially tainted food to our military. I know those two stories , Nov. 27 and Nov. 20 respectively, are “ancient history” but , Mr. Holder, Whats one potential murdering scumbag prosecuted when you can prosecute three ?
Report Post »crossdraw
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:49amI would think a freak that has this look would have been asked what his reason was for being there in the first place. It seems pretty obvious that Christmas is not in his itinerary from his look and demeanor. Muslim scumbags don’t do Christmas. Let’s profile gang. It’s fun, rewarding and gets results. Islam has that look and can be spotted from far off. We have your number Muslim freak-a-zoids. Get the hell out of my country and take you explosives with you.
Report Post »crossdraw
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:58amOpps. I meant “your” explosives.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:37amJudge to bailiff, “bring this guilty bast@*d in so we can have a trial”. 15 minutes later this guy should be swinging.
Report Post »peezee
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:34amThey wonder how he was radicalised? He DID attend a University in Oregon did he not? Nobody HATES the United States more than contemporary University students. Hell, I would not be surprised if they HELPED him! No need for Jihadists when you have “progressives” around.
They think the Palestinians are saints and their parents are evil.
Research it. Parents have no idea what these 60s rejects have done to their children. This country needs to purge itself of these leftest zealots.
Report Post »CYCLONE
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 2:40pmShiek Obama Style….
…— NOW LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR ….(from our smegma testing President…)…POSPOTUS
Report Post »RobR
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:29amJust think, this could have been a young Barack Obama under different circumstances. Really makes you wonder who is really living in our White House.
Report Post »Slap Shot
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:24amPlease don’t hand him over to Holder….that’s a ticket to freedom.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:23amOur failed president’s misguided muslim-outreach is really paying off.
Report Post »kmbr
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:29amThis isn’t just the fault of Obama. We own this disaster. He lives in a community that despises the country and it’s ideals. He, no doubt, went to a school that taught him how bad this country was and taught him very little of it’s founding except that we exploited anyone who got in our way. He then probably went into mosques, undoubtedly in that community were lauded and extolled for their virtues because the misguided misfits of Portland have been taught to revel in anything they deem as exotic or not American. Nope, we own this mess.
Report Post »Citizen
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:46amwow nasa needs to get its act together.
i hate to make any light of the situation because petty remarks and witty banter is exactly what this country doesnt need because all it does is inflame things.
but man nasa screwed up, this kid was supposed to feel good about his contribution to science, instead he found out he couldnt build a bomb.
Report Post »Uncle Sambo
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:09amMy focus group has determined that you will be more complaint to the new TSA requirements traveling back home from the holiday weekend. Therefore I’ve ordered that the scanners be turned back on in time for the flight back home. You will comply or you will be jailed and miss work tomorrow.
El Presidente
Report Post »treshall
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:08amNotice the one glaring omission in this article about Mohamed Mohamud? There is no reference made to parents or family- did this kid just spring forth from jihad, fully formed, without benefit of biology?
Report Post »Was there not one person in the kid’s life who might have smelled a rat, sensed something amiss, suspected the kid might have been headed for trouble??? All I can say about this was thank goodness the FBI was aware- spared a whole lot of holiday revelers a whole lot of terror.
Uncle Sambo
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:15amThat is an anti-immigrant sentiment. We need more citizens like him. Open up the borders. They are only doing the jobs that Americans won’t do.
Report Post »HumanDoing
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:43amLOL were all immigrants bro. We love immigrants who apply for citizenship through the proper channels.
Report Post »We rather understand there is a psychological battle being raged. Most folks just want to get along peacefully and live there lives .. ya know … why we got to impose on each other…why does everything have to be so complicated. If we were born on an island and knew nothing of history, you would be my brother…peace
alcarfl
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:06amAnywhere there is a mosque in North America this kind of wanna be terrorism exists. For every sting operation there are hundreds of jihad driven nut cases just waiting to bring harm to unsuspecting and innocent American and Canadian citizens. The mosque network is the safe haven for illegals, their weapons arsenals and their communication links to the global terrorists. Prove me wrong and I’ll apologize. In the meantime, gather your community leaders and concerned citizens. Visit a mosque near you. Ask for a tour. Make sure you ask to see the sub basements. Do a head count ccheck check for visas among those “housed” in the structure. These are not houses of worship, they are terrorist cell headquarters. Remember their deal, educate, convert or kill ALL non believers (infidels). It’s in their koran. Read it it for yourselves. Get involved, people. Look into any imam’s eyes. That’s not love and compasion staring back at you. They are on a mission and we are the prey.
Report Post »5
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:58amMohamed Osman Mohamud?
Wouldn’t that be like one of us being named
GOD Thomas Smith GOD. Morons for parents.
Report Post »HumanDoing
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:56amRep Peter King… seems to have a new found support for TSA screenings.
In 2000, King supported John McCain as the Republican nominee for President over Texas governor George W. Bush.
Ya may think your hidin there Pete, The lights on you.
Report Post »kmbr
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:54amWhy pretend that the vast majority of the residents of Portland, Oregon aren’t hostile to our way of life and ideals?
When your enemies are killing each other, why stop ‘em? I am far more fearful of the lunatic leftist psychos inhabiting the PNW than any Somali teenager.
Report Post »Sledgehammer
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:51amRevoke his citizenship, he is a wanabe murderer treat him as a dog, and put him down!
Report Post »Uncle Sambo
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:58amDon’t worry; I put Eric Holder on the case.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:39amRevoke his existence.
Report Post »dwh320
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:46amI was in the Pioneer Square for the tree lighting. The thought of all those people being victims of a terrorist attack is sickening. I remember little children there with their parents singing Christmas carols. The smiles and joy there as we all celebrated the start of the Christmas season was wonderful. To think that Muslim Terrorist wanted to kill or harm these people who were gathered to celebrate a joyous season shows just how evil and hate filled these terrorist are.
Merry Christmas Portland Oregon. May God bless all of you with continued protection from evil.
Report Post »HumanDoing
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:00amSo glad everyone is ok. Its like some distant thing till it hits your community. I’m sure I speak for most in that yours are in our prayers.
Report Post »rightminded
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:12amYes thank God everyone is ok! Portland time to wake up… This guy wasn’t even born here. But I am sure they will want to make sure he has all his rights. They need to make an example of this guy take away his rights and treat him like the terrorist that he is.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 12:08pmThank God for the Big Brother Govt. they saved us again.
Thank you Big Brother I love you more than any freedom I may have
Winston
Report Post »M633
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 3:46pmMohamed Mohamud’s high school project was, “How to Build a Rocket-Propelled Grenade”.
Report Post »True story. See local news accounts.
No one said a word.
tower7femacamp
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:36amSo why are we just proving that the FBI can find a weak young man
Report Post »and bend his mind and push him to something he could NEVER do
without their help. I mean who can they call and say I need a bomb to
blow something up ? Nowhere outside of the FBI or CIA so what’s
the point ? FEAR is the point
just like the well dressed man in the under ware bomber story.
another set up ?
treshall
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:11amTower, clearly you have issues, among them a serious spelling problem- ‘under ware’? Seriously, dude? Check the package of ‘underwear’- it’s on there.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:15amsorry for my spelling.
Report Post »I am more of a reader than writer.
tower7femacamp
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:21am@treshall do you read much ?
Report Post »http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/the-underwear-bomber-more-to-the-story-kurt-haskell-describes-the-well-dressed-man-and-the-man-in-orange
I have trouble spelling due to Fluoride Poisoning.
and it has been years since I have seen a pack of new underwear lol
Citizen
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:25amits interesting that you see it that way instead of seeing that the fbi found a person who was trying to plot terrorism and that you put no responsability on the would-be bomber.
Report Post »Pucci
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:29amDnot wrroy Toewr- poeple who crae abuot splleing raelly jsut faer thier own lcak of intlleignece. Tehy do tihs by piontnig out ohter poelpes msitkaes.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:41amCitizen how did you read this ?
Less than two weeks later an agent e-mailed Mohamud, pretending to be affiliated with one of the people overseas whom Mohamud had tried to contact.
Undercover agents then set up a series of face-to-face meetings with Mohamud at hotels in Portland and Corvallis. They persuaded Mohamud they were in contact with a “council” of jihadists that were interested in him, the documents say.
Report Post »Citizen
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:50amtower the first action was Moe wanting to contact terrorists over seas.
because of that action the fbi stepped in to allow his goals to grow to fruition while not putting anyone in harms way.
you ever see to catch a predator – same thing just for terrorist
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 12:06pmyes it is similar to catch a predator except this kid was never going to get a bomb on his own
Report Post »those guys had the means to commit the crime. But can you see the Propaganda value in this ?
http://www.groundzeromedia.org/blackjack-friday-the-face-of-error/#more-1592
WeveAlreadyWon
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 1:17pmTower you just don’t get it. It’s because of politically correct leftie ******** like you that we are in this predicament in the first place. The point is that the MUSLIM was looking for a way to blow up people and help with Jihaad against Americans. Take your ass over to Somalia for a few weeks if you love their Muslim asses so much. Take your Mom and Sister too.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 1:41pmthe point WEVEALREADYWON How does setting up this kid make you feel safe ?
Report Post »I try to hate Nobody, but feel like I am being treated like a terrorist
in my own country because the sheep are Scared…..
so you call people names because you are scared to live free.
You have a better chance of Cancer than ever experiencing a terror
attack, look we have poisoned our own water with sodium fluoride and
now the senate passes S510 dictating what you grow in your backyard
but your thick skull can only see the big bad boogieman living in a desert
thousands of miles away, or maybe this arab kid, what a puss you are.
Citizen
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 2:23pmtower you assume hes not going to get a bomb on his own – tons of ways to figure out how to make a bomb.
so your assumption is where you run into problems, he was actively seeking to carry out terrorism, you assume he wouldnt get a bomb that is not fact that is assumptions. what is fact is he was seeking to commit a terrorist act.
just like to catch a predator – the predator doesnt have to have sex with the kid for it to be a crime.
you solicit for kids you go to prison you solicit for terrorism you go to prison.
Report Post »Citizen
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 2:31pmtower also – you find nothing wrong with the person looking to contact terrorists and find out what he can do to help ?
the fbi did not force him to go look they were tipped off to activity he was already undertaking.
Report Post »CaptGregg
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 5:37pmSetup? Entrapment? NO!!! Does the concept of giving him just enough rope to hang himself ring a bell? The little punk WANTED to kill Americans, and left alone, would have done so. He didn’t need the FBI to provide the explosives. By making relatively small the purchases from different outlets over a couple of weeks, anyone can make an extremely deadly bomb out of easily obtainable and perfectly legal materials without arousing suspicion.
We’re just lucky he was such a screw-up.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 7:03pmok CITIZEN this is my final post on this subject, if the FBI did
Report Post »such a great job, then why not keep it quiet so they can trick the
next terrorist with another sting ? I say they did it to make you worship them and
to do just what you are doing. That‘s why it’s all over the news.
Thank God for the Big Brother
keeping me safe. I truly love my Master of cares for me so much.
I don’t know why they want Population reduction and 1.33 million abortions a year
I am so glad “Master is my friend” ( lord of the rings reference)Sméagol
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2275966976/nm0785227
I do enjoy your debate have a nice evening and keep fighting CITIZEN
American Pride
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:19pmTower is right. We should wait for the terrorist to blow something up and kill many people before we arrest him.
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:34amI despise skinnies, death penalty and quickly.
Report Post »Uncle Sambo
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:56amIt is a clear case of entrapment. But, I can‘t and won’t pardon him. My polls are already in the cellar. That leaves me in a bind.
I know just what to do. I will turn the prosecution over to the fine capable hands of Eric Holder. He’ll see that justice is done.
Oh, for all you folks flying back home after the big Satan Holiday. Do I have some good news for you. I have ordered that the TSA to use the scanners in full force. Resistance is futile. You will comply or you will miss your fight and work tomorrow.
El Presidente
Report Post »Pucci
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 10:16amBut Mr. President, wouldn’t it more prudent to just turn over prosecution to the local D.A.? After all, it IS Oregon.
Report Post »bcullum1952
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 1:44pmThis would only be entrapment IF the government agents had contacted him and persuaded him to do something that he would not have done on his own. Apparently, this idiot wanted to blow something up, causing as much collateral damage as possible. The FBI providing inert materials which the idiot thought was the real thing only ensured that the bomb would not go off, and did nothing that would have compromised his initial intent.
Report Post »Personally, I have nothing against the possible use of the death penalty against terrorists, nor do I think any improper acts were conducted by the government personnel. And while I object to the use of “enhanced pat-down procedures“ and the ”naked body scanners” on Constitutional grounds, I do not hold the individual TSA employees responsible, but do hold the upper-eschelon administrators who formulated this attack on individual privacy responsible. There are less intrusive methods which would be as effective but may not be “politically correct” and therefore not appropriate according to the money-spending techies who dictate the TSA expenditures.
truthwinz
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:30amAnother example of why TSA finding a plastic explosive laden terrorist INSIDE the terminal is still a tad late in the safety scheme.
Report Post »sclibertymom
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 2:47amAgreed if they don’t catch them till they get to the terminal then the FBI and homeland security have already failed, and we are going to expect the guys in the blue uniforms to catch them? I really want to say that I do not think it was entrapment but to say that this is a thwarted attack is over the top. They were involved in the set up it is a fear tactic to say the the attack was stopped when it was never to be.
Report Post »sclibertymom
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 3:13amI forgot to mention that only 4 airports require that their employees go through security that means the baggage handlers food prep, and mechanics. Found this article about the scanners and how the Obama administration was warned about the scanners prior to purchase. http://www.docudharma.com/diary/24043/obama-stonewalls-superstar-scientists-urgent-warnings-on-airport-xray-scanners
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