‘An Imminent Threat’: 2 More Activists Charged in Separate NATO Bomb Plot
- Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:08pm by
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Chicago police said Sunday that Sebastian Senakiewicz has been charged with one felony count of terrorism/making a false threat. He is accused of planning to make a Molotov cocktail to be used during the NATO summit. (AP Photo/Chicago Police Department)
CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors charged two more activists Sunday with crimes tied to the two-day NATO summit, accusing one of saying he wanted to blow up a downtown Chicago bridge and a second with seeking to build pipe bombs.
The Cook County State‘s Attorney’s office charged Sebastian Senakiewicz, 24, of Chicago, with falsely making a terrorist threat. Mark Neiweem, 28, of Chicago, is charged with attempted possession of explosives or incendiary devices.
Prosecutors told a judge at a Sunday court appearance that Senakiewicz, a Polish native, said he could blow up a bridge in downtown Chicago. They accused him of bragging repeatedly about having explosives and said he claimed to have hid them in a hollowed out Harry Potter book. Prosecutors said searches did not uncover explosives.
Prosecutors said Neiweem wanted to build a pipe bomb and wrote a list of ingredients required, including model rocket engines.
A Cook County judge set bond at $750,000 for Senakiewicz and $500,000 for Neiweem.
The charges came a day after three other activists appeared in court and were accused of manufacturing Molotov cocktails and harboring plans to attack President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters and other targets during the NATO meeting.
Kris Hermes, an attorney with the National Lawyers Guild, which has represented many of the activists, said the new charges were an “effort to frighten people and to diminish the size of the demonstrations.” Hermes said Sunday that his group has tried but failed to obtain details from authorities about the charges.
“Like with the others, police have given us minimal information … next to nothing,” he said.
The trio charged Saturday are Brian Church, 20, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Jared Chase, 24, of Keene, N.H.; and, Brent Vincent Betterly, 24, of Oakland Park, Fla. They were arrested on Wednesday and face charges of conspiracy to commit terrorism, material support for terrorism and possession of explosives.
Senakiewicz and Neiweem were arrested a day later. Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said he didn’t know if they had any connection to Church, Chase or Betterly.
Defense lawyer Michael Deutsch on Saturday accused police of setting up their clients in an attempt to frighten peaceful protesters. He said undercover officers brought the firebombs to a South Side apartment where the men were arrested.
Critics say filing terrorism-related charges against the protesters is reminiscent of previous police actions ahead of major political events, when authorities moved quickly to prevent suspected plots but sometimes quietly dropped the charges later.
“Even if charges are dropped or reduced later, they will have succeeded in spreading fear and intimidation,” Hermes said.
McCarthy on Saturday flatly dismissed the idea the arrests of the initial three suspects were anything more than an effort to stop “an imminent threat.”
Prosecutors said Church, Chase and Betterly used fuel purchased from a Chicago gas station for makeshift bombs, pouring it into beer bottles and cutting up bandanas to serve as fuses. If convicted on all counts, they could get up to 85 years in prison. They are each being held on $1.5 million bond.
Expected in court later Sunday is a third man, Taylor Hall, who was arrested during Saturday night protests and is charged with aggravated battery to a police officer. Authorities did not immediately release Hall’s age or hometown.
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ShannonMauira
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:59pmPeople are trying to claim that these protesters are radicalized anarchists from way back….however, through a little investigation, it was uncovered that the NH native was radicalized by the OWS movement last year. Prior to that, he ‘was not political’. Here’s the article from the NH Union Leader: http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120520/NEWS03/705219935
Report Post »Buckeyesquadron
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 5:59amWhat they didn’t mention was the undercover cops giving the anarchists the moltov cocktails and entrapping them. That is what’s called a sting operation or false flag attack. Mainstream media needs to get it together and stop acting like the consolidated corporations they are today. In the 50sdelegate we had close to a hundred different outlets. Today they’ve been bought out and become agenda driven. Look no further then Fox News.
Report Post »JohnnyMidknight
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 3:00pmPlease provide use evidence of entrapment when making a claim of such. The people arrested are innocent until proven guilty. Let’s not muddy they waters with additional allegations on the police that have yet to surface. I am afraid the assumption of innocence goes both was in the eyes of the court and public.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 5:34amAh…the great ‘crisis’ that was started 3 days before the occupy Chicago…got all the news coverage…made sure this was the headline…don’t look at what is going on in Chicago…here, we have a story for your headlines. Also, once more the annointed one takes top billiing…the ‘plot’ was to attack obama headquarters…see IT’S ALL ABOUT ME…..this sounds a lot like the Richard Jewell Atlanta bombing story of years ago.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 7:44pmThe Obamites are the terrorists.
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 8:34pmYour right they are Obama’s creation. He praised the Arab spring now it has arrived to our shores .
Report Post »FromSeaToSea
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 10:23pmAmen. Republicans and Democrats are the same one party criminal gang. Obama and Company are another criminal gang. The people might be steered up, but they are not the criminals. The criminals are those gov. officials who support a one world gov. but took an oath to our sovereign nation under the Constitution. We have about 1,000 people in Washington that should be tried for Constitutional treason. Not sure how this can be accomplished but it’s the resolution.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 11:22pmI thought only Muslims were terrorists! Except for Timothy McVeigh of course. And Anders Behring Breivik. Or Byron Williams (http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/1016/Did-Glenn-Beck-s-rhetoric-inspire-violence). Of course I could list lots more but I should stop there because I don’t want to offend anyone or get blacklisted again.
Report Post »Bryan B
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 11:45pm@jzs
So what you are implying is, if someone, writes or says something inflammatory, someone else might go out and become violent ?
Wow JZS you need to watch what you write on the Blaze, because someone might become violent. And I’ve seen some very inflammatory thing you have writen on here……
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 11:53pm@Bryan B
Hi Bryan,
As I’ve said before; I like your posts. So I’m going to warn you about this jzs poser. This is not the real JZS but a fake jzs. He’s a mad relative that has hacked his account. Do not listen to him or reply to him. He will try to suck you into his world and attempt to drive you mad.
Bless you for all your past posts. : )
Report Post »Bryan B
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 12:05am@The-Monk
Well I thank you for the heads up……
And God Bless……
Report Post »Bryan B
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 12:21am@The-Monk
One more thing, when JZS has been right, I have told Her that.
And JZS’s style of writing, is that of a women, and not that of a man….
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 12:37am@Bryan B
Bryan, you are indeed blessed with foresight and fortitude. My hat is off to you. : )
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 3:11amJJS I don’t believe you were ever “black listed” on this site. you’re using “misinformation”.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 10:29amBryan B, actually that what Byron Williams said about his own motivations, and a lot of law enforcement officials agree that violent hate speech can set off the unbalanced.
Report Post »SpeckChaser
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 5:42pmBRYAN / MONK
It’s also necessary to mention JZS’s ability to read minds. On a different story he was able to conclude that I would “deny that gays are discriminated against…abused or…killed, just as you’d deny that white Christians ever discriminated against blacks or lynched them.”
He was able to reach these conclusions in spite of me never posting, speaking, advocating, or believing these thoughts. The only drawback to his magical, but incorrect, power is it only works on conservatives and may actually block him from perceiving the spoken words of liberals. He was unable to condemn LBJ for his hateful and bigoted remarks towards African Americans.
JZS said that it was possible the he used racist remarks only to persuade some racist democrats to vote for legislation and not that he believed all the terrible things he said.
The point is, if you’re a conservative, he can peer into your mind and perceive racism that you have not spoke or even believe in. But if you’re liberal, you can refer to African American as the “N-word” and talk about your plans to keep them suppressed and be a great president.
Report Post »possom
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 5:37pmEvery one of these idiot‘s probably spent their collage year’s taking class‘s in art appreciation or black study’s and not one was smart enough to take a basic chemistry course!
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 5:45pmSounds like they are much like most of Obama’s cabinet.
Report Post »EndTheFedNOW
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 7:01pmThought the war on terror is for the scary muslims? LOL no. Its just pratice. For the real enemy. The white libertarian conservative. As shown in the with the latest patsy set up by the military industerial complex. I hate ows but I hate our globalist sell out government more.
Report Post »BlackCrow
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 5:27pmIf any of these half wit children had any tactical experience they might be something to worry about. As it is they are going to make a lot of mess, a lot of noise and break a lot of windows but in the big scheme of things do very little real damage.
Report Post »Bryan B
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 5:12pmI don’t see how making bombs, threatening or intimidating others is going to get you what you want ?
If these activest where to murder one child, with their actions, even if by accident, it would so anger the American People, their would be no place for them to hide. And there would cries of justice from one end of the country to the other. And the righteousness of the people of our country could be throwen to the wind for vengeance, threatening the very freedoms and liberties that we all hold dear. For the very simple fact there is evil waiting for foolishness, vanity and hate…..
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 5:29pmRemember that Obama needs the spreading of fear, terror, panic and strain on the fabric of society so he can become the savior by ‘making the madness end.’ This is but one means and way to that end goal: the complete overthrow of the Constitution and his pending dictatorship.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 7:30pmI just don’t trust the media or govt. anymore, Bryan. They’re crying wolf all the time doing nothing but scaring people into be willing to give up their god-given rights. There are other new outlets saying they confiscated beer making equipment. Regardless, we’ve gone from a country where we were innocent until proven guilty, to guilty before anyone actually commits a crime. Very disturbing trend if you ask me.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 4:06pmI’m posting too fast? WTF?
Report Post »justangry
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 4:12pmOops, sorry folks… frustration with the Blaze. Most of you know this sounds suspicious. I‘m not afraid of hippies please don’t take away anymore of my rights.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 4:17pmHappened to me three or four times today JUST.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 4:34pmYes .. I thought it was just me .. until I have seen numerous posts about it … I will post this in a few minutes .. so The Blaze can keep up ;-)
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:58pmI think these guys are total idiots and slimeballs, bit the things they were charged with seem pretty damn contrived, if I said repeatedly I could blow up my lawnmower they could search me and still charde me if I had no explosives, if hey would have arrested him on charges of making threats against public property or people that would make more sense. Really how dumb do you have to be to not be able to figure out what goes in a pipe bomb and to ask around for ideas, this stupid blowhard shpould be charged with something but off the top of my head I don’t know what! Maybe being a danger to himself :-)
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 4:11pmThink this through. You’re implying that the authorities (at whatever level) have made the decision to frame, arrest and make examples of……… Obama’s Base Voters???? Brilliant!!!!
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 12:25amBroker- Anarchists are not Obama’s base voters, they are pulled more towards the Paul campaign,
Report Post »Ron Staiger
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:50pmIt was Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson who said, in response to a subordinates question about what to do about all the vandalism committed by union soldiers during their occupation of Fredericksburg, Va in December 1862, “kill ‘em, kill ‘em all”. We are at war with terrorists. Those who choose to act like terrorists should be shot on sight. Those who throw bricks from the rooftops at police, should be shot on sight. Those who manufacture or throw molitov coctails or IED’s should be shot on sight. Kill ‘em, kill ‘em all.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 5:04pmThose who sell weapons Fast And Furiously, to Mexican drug dealers, then Must be Terrorists. What do we do with them??
Report Post »vox_populi
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:48pmMore arrests over nothing. This is a troubling pattern, particularly in the wake of the NDAA passing.
Like I said before, Righties: if they can do it to us, they can do it to you.
Report Post »Bryan B
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:15pm@vox_populi
I really don’t believe you have thought this completely through.
These activists where caught making malakoff cocktails and one of them “wanted to build a pipe bomb and wrote a list of ingredients required, including model rocket engines.”
These where not people wanting to peaceably protest their government, they wanted to hurt others and destroy property…..
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 4:00pmVox I find myself having to agree with you, even a blind leftie squirrel finds a nut once in a while, just joshin ya, don’t be offended.
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 4:00pmOk. But, until then, let’s sit back and enjoy the Left eating itself. It’s fun.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:46pmAre these young people connected to the OWS? Does anyone know for sure?
Report Post »justangry
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 4:15pmWould you believe them if they did know?
Report Post »noczars
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 6:29pmUnions & Obama’s favorite anarchists are connected to OWS. There are other parts of OWS that are attached to Pink; Planned Parenthood and anti-war movements. I have seen the signs; t-shirts and masks (why would you need to wear masks if you were just protesting?). I have also heard ayres (another one of Obama’s favorites) giving instructions to OWS on how to be good anarchists.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:40pmAll of these communists will start to eat each other, once they realize they cannot eat the rich. Things will turn ugly soon enough! I hope they fail miserably and then we can get on with voting these progressive/communist/liberals out of office for good!
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:39pmeither false flag or the pigs made an example of him to invoke fear.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:45pm“Pigs”?? Got your Guy Fawkes mask handy there Ron? Your bretheren await. What anarchist tools of the trade will you be bringing? A molotov cocktail? A brick? A Ron Paul Action Figure?
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 6:10pmINDIV. I noticed you took your Ron Paul pic/avatar down… WHY? Embarrassed?
Report Post »Netizen Kane
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:38pmRemember this:
“Obama said the most important thing he can do as president is express solidarity with the protesters and redouble his commitment to achieving what he described as a more egalitarian society.”
There you go….
source:
Report Post »abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/obama-occupy-wall-street-not-that-different-from-tea-party-protests/
Tri-ox
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:37pm‘AN IMMINENT THREAT’: 2 MORE obama anarchists/ACTIVISTS CHARGED IN SEPARATE NATO BOMB PLOT
It would appear that the ‘obama 2012’ campaign is getting desperate.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 4:38pmOne of the three from yesterday … was on the local Florida news this morning .. .seems late last year or early this year he and two others broke into a local school .. swam in the pool and vandalized a lot of the building .. they were caught (video camera) .. but sounds like got a slap on the wrist and right back out .. hopefully they keep these little twits locked up for a while on these charges.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:31pmtea party members arrested ……………………..0
ows lefties arrested to date ………………………OVER 7,000
Report Post »michael48
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:28pmwell you created them now live (or die) with them comrades…limo lib’s, watch your back…enjoy the fruits of your labor..lol..
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:26pmBart Simpson in adulthood.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:37pmLOL. Bart Simpson. And an appropriate Bart Simpson quote…
“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Contrary to what you’ve just seen, war is neither glamorous nor fun. There are no winners, only losers. There are no good wars, with the following exceptions: The American Revolution, World War II, and the Star Wars Trilogy. If you’d like to learn more about war, there’s lots of books in your local library, many of them with cool, gory pictures.”
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:57pmTIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12, Excellent quote. Have watched the Simpsons since their inception on the Tracey Ullman Show, although we caught it a bit late on AFN. Funny thing is that this clown is about the same age as the actual Bart Simpson character.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 4:11pmLOL. Funny you mention AFN. Picture a bunch of G.I.’s sitting around in the Day Room back in the day, watching General Hospital and cheering on Luke and Laura. Wasn’t much to choose from back then, Lmao.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 11:40pmTIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12, Geez, do I remember those days. I guess you could watch Gasthaus, or AFN News which was so far behind that many of their stories were quotes from Stars & Stripes! I read a lot of books then up through about the middle of my second tour. Third tour in the early ’90s and we actually got news that was not quite 24 hours old yet. I had a small black and white set that could be switched to European TV. I used to have a gang in my room when Star Trek or even The Waltons were on. Very funny in German. The funniest thing I ever saw was one of the Air Force guys I was stationed with at Drum, a very few operated a radar site and were assigned to the HQ USAG. One of them had videotaped a John Wayne movie while in Japan, and naturally dubbed over in Japanese.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:24amRJJING. Lol… good times! I didn’t watch much of the local TV when overseas, but my family and I did laugh when we saw certain shows in another language. I remember just wanting to get back to the world and watch COMMERCIALS again. That wore off quick when I got back though… ha!
Report Post »jimmyhand
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:21pmcome on Blaze do a little research. the photo is fake the shadows don’t match lighting and do an ELA check on photo and its clearly a made up photo. another false flag event. Makes me start ?ing the Blaze
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:41pmThis makes you START questioning The Blaze? Next thing you know, you‘ll be questioning Glen Beck’s constant (and constantly WRONG) predictions of Total Global Collapse. You need to get your mid right, son. This sudden urge to think for yourself is dangerous.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:42pmOkay, feel a bit silly, but what is an ELA test? Have taken far too many similar arrest photos myself as well as plenty of forensic photos, and shadows look differently when using multiple light sources or even reversed flash through a reflective balloon difuser ( which I preferred back in the day). Granted, I simply took the photos and did not get involved with forensic investigation of photos. But, I have some understanding of the various light effects of such perp photography. This is not a composite photograph.
mr.goodvibe
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 4:02pmI don’t know Jimmy, looks like the light is coming from the bottom left of the shot just by the shape of the shadow on the wall and the shadow on the side of his face.
Report Post »jimmyhand
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 6:25pmIn general, images can be either photoshopped or original. You must have seen a no. of amusing photoshopped images and then other images which are not photoshopped and have the original image quality. There might be times when you need to find out the actual type of an image: whether it is a modified picture or the real natural one.
So, in such cases you can always use a very good online tool which would identify if the image has gone under some digital manipulation. A very fast and simple image forensics technique has been proposed by the Image Forensic Error level analysis online tool. This online tool lets one find out if an image has been manipulated by programs like Adobe Photoshop.
Report Post »americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:20pmOK, so now they are arresting people for SAYING that they wanted to bomb a bridge, but they do nothing about BHO who IS destroying this country at every turn.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 4:25pmBecause he’s the HMFNIC, like his buddy Morgan Freeman once stated in the movie “Lean on Me”.
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