(Updated) FBI Nabs Another Jihad-Obsessed Potential Bomber in Sting Operation
- Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:55pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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UPDATE:
The LA Times has more on the attempted bomber:
Federal authorities say Antonio Martinez, also known as Muhammad Hussain, attempted to detonate what he believed to be a vehicle bomb this morning at the Armed Forces Career Center in the 5400 block of Baltimore National Pike.
Court records paint Martinez as obsessed with Jihad and intent on punishing the military. He praised Nidal Hassan, the U.S. Army major who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, and discussed obtaining weapons and shooting up military installations, records show.
In November, he was observed on a public computer in Woodlawn viewing videos of Osama bin Laden and an Iraqi martyrdom. He discussed in public postings on his Facebook page how the “reign of oppression is about 2 cease.”
It was through the social networking site that he communicated at times with an FBI informant, saying he wanted to go to Pakistan or Afghanistan and join the ranks of the “mujahideen.”
OUR ORIGINAL REPORT IS BELOW.
BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore man was arrested Wednesday for plotting to blow up a military recruitment center, authorities said.
The man was caught in a sting operation as he tried to detonate a phony bomb at an Armed Forces recruiting station in Catonsville, just outside Baltimore, officials said.
“There was no actual danger to the public as the explosives were inert and the suspect had been carefully monitored by law enforcement for months,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Maryland said in a statement.
The man was a U.S. citizen who was arrested after he tried to set off what he thought was a bomb, according to an official briefed on the arrest. The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
The man acted alone and did not train overseas or get instructions from anyone overseas, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the man had not been formally charged.
There was no evidence the plot was linked to recent shootings at military installations in the Washington area, authorities said.
The man had an initial appearance scheduled for 2 p.m. in federal court in Baltimore. The court calendar listed his name as Antonio Martinez, also known as Muhammad Hussain.
There are several military recruiting offices in Catonsville, and it was not immediately clear which had been targeted. Petty Officer Brandyn Hill, a Coast Guard spokesman, said he was told by people working in the Coast Guard office that it was not the target of the plot.
The case comes after a recent bomb plot in Portland, Ore. The day after Thanksgiving, a Somali-born teenager was arrested there after using a cell phone to try to detonate what he thought were explosives in a van, authorities said. He thought he was going to bomb a crowded downtown Christmas tree-lighting ceremony.
Like the Baltimore County case, it turned out to be a dummy bomb plot put together by FBI agents. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested after authorities said he planned the details of the plot, including where to park the van filled with explosives to hurt the most people. Mohamud allegedly believed he was receiving help from a larger ring of jihadists as he communicated with undercover agents.
The incidents are the latest in a string of alleged terrorist plans by U.S. citizens or residents, including a Times Square plot in which a Pakistan-born man tried to set off a car bomb on a busy street. He pleaded guilty earlier this year.
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Associated Press writer Pete Yost in Washington contributed to this report.
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Comments (58)
Rn mom
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 5:25pmThey should throw him through a TSA scanner and grope- just for the heck of it. Come on already we are spending big bucks on those scanners.
Report Post »BRAVEHEART
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 5:16pmIslam is an Idealology involving killing and muder, Jihad is their way of justifying muder. You can justify killing someone in defense of life and Liberty, You can never justify “murder” especially when doing it to please a false god or promote a Fascist idealology.
Report Post »grayhaired vet
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 4:48pmLiberals are notorious for not being able to see the forest for the trees.They take great pride in being stubborn and idealistic. They‘ll continue to insist that radical islamic terrorism doesn’t exist until the terrorists achieve a couple of major successess in places like the admissions office of Berkeley or Columbia University or the TransAmerica building in San Francisco. Maybe when they’re burying a few thousand of their own, they’ll finally wake up. Even then, I wouldn’t bet on it. When you’ve made a science out of always missing the point, it difficult to give up on something at which you can actually achieve. God knows there’s little else.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 5:04pmThey will not understand and will re-doulble their appeasement.
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 5:11pmTrue. They were mad about Daniel Pearl for about two days.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 4:28pmWaterboarding is out of the question.
But, since multiple virgins are the reward for killing infidels,
maybe a recital of the quested after-life is in oder here on earth:
>Give them the virgin’s experience (repeatedly –for life).
Report Post »jdawg
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 4:07pmAnd he’s a convert to Islam. Gee, there’s a surprise. Any idea what he was upset about? Maybe he didn’t like Palin shooting a caribou, or maybe he was upset with the health care bill.
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/man-arrested-alleged-plot-to-blow-up-military-recruiting-center
Report Post »Sunnyr
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 4:05pmA Hispanic who converted to Islam? Another home-grown radical goofball, most likely from the DemocRAT Party. Will wonders never cease?
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 4:04pmJihad makes Progressivism look absolutely peachy.
Wake up.
Report Post »bcullum1952
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 4:01pmHaven’t checked online, but does the FBI operate an online website selling “jihadist bomb supplies”?
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 3:59pmAgain. This is Jihad.
This is not terrorism. This is holy war for Allah.
Jihad is the method by which Islam is spread. Jihad is 1,400 years old. It does not stop, it does not fail. Jihad will not stop until muslims stop it. It is not our fault.
This is a muslim engaged in jihad in an effort to spread Islam in praise of his deity Allah as instructed by his prophet Mohammed.
Deport muslims, deport jihad. Let them jihad on fellow muslims in their own little Islamic nightmare. Get these vile people out of my country.
Report Post »Sunnyr
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 4:36pmThis idiot is a Hispanic who converted to Islam. He is said to be a citizen of this country and therefore cannot be deported. Sadly.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 5:09pmHe has engaged in violent acts of war against the United States of American. He is a muslim soldier engaged in holy war against American citizens.
He can be stripped of citizenship and executed. He should be. Publicly. As an example for all the other douche bag muslims who think they can engage in Jihad in America endlessly without consequence.
This stupid Islamic Jihad must be removed from our lands. Muslims must be made to understand that we will not tolerate their idiotic deity, their warlord prophet, and their false religion. It has to stop.
Jihad is real.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 3:49pmAntonio Martinez, also known as Muhammad Hussain
hmmmmmmm….. CLOSE the BORDER and PROFILE
Report Post »rbagala
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 3:32pmSo the war has arrived to our shores. These sting operations have only displayed the lone amateur terrorist who for reasons of his own have fallen into the sting operation’s trap.
Report Post »One could conclude that for every lone amateur terrorist there has to be many more seasoned, trained terrorists and their sleeper cells waiting to strike at the heart of the USA.
We may have been “saved” by these vigilante lone terrorist but it exposes the fact that sooner or later the Al-Qaeda and her many sub groups will learn from past successes in Europe and Asia to strike a nation whose government’s apathy towards our open borders leaves all of us vulnerable to an easy strike.
mike_trivisonno
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 4:01pmJihad is 1,400 years old. Your characterization is inaccurate and dangerous.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 5:52pmSorry. That was a mispost.
Report Post »Derfel Cadarn
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 3:27pmNo doubt the bomb was to be provided by and plot expedited by an agent provocateur of the FBI. Like numerous previously thwarted plots this brings to mind the immortal words of the Church Lady, isn`t that CONVENIENT.
Report Post »imareader
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 3:25pmHow frequent are these things getting? Once a month now? We can’t stay lucky and nab only stupid jihadis forever.
Report Post »link: free republic:
TERRORISM ACTIVITIES IN THE UNITED STATES:
08 DEC 2010 – A Baltimore man (Antonio Martinez, also known as Muhammad Hussain) was arrested Wednesday for plotting to blow up a military recruitment center, tried to detonate a phony bomb at an Armed Forces recruiting station in Catonsville, MD.
25 NOV 2010 – A horrific “near miss” occurred in Oregon, as Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a Somali immigrant and aspiring Islamic terrorist attempted to explode a truck bomb in the middle of a crowd that had gathered in Portland for the Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
27 OCT 2010 – Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn, Va., was arrested on 27 OCT 2010 for attempting to assist others whom he believed to be members of al-Qaeda in planning multiple bombings at Metrorail stations in the Washington, D.C., area.
01 MAY 2010 – Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani who tried to detonate a truck bomb in Times Square on May 1, 2010 and was arrested on 03 MAY 2010.
25 DEC 2009 – Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the British-educated son of a Nigerian bank executive, allegedly attempted to set off a bomb sewn into his underwear on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, as it approached Detroit, Michigan.
05 NOV 2009 – Fort Hood massacre involving US ARMY Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan killing 12 and wounding 31 service personnel.
01 JUN 2009 – Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, a Memphis native, watched two U.S. soldiers in fatigues smoking outside an Army recruiting center in Little Rock. Killing one and wounding the other.
Deane
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 7:42amThank you IMAREADER…I was just trying to count how many domestic radical islam terriorist attacks were attempted since 2009. Now could you possibly refresh my memory as to how many domestic radical islam terrorist attacks were attempted in the 7 years after 911? I think the answer is ZERO, right?
Report Post »mcccmar
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 3:04pmsooner or later one of these maniacs WILL get through and do some damage -
Report Post »NHABE64
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 3:02pmSeeing as how our cowardly and wimpy government has no balls anymore, why not send the cockroach to Singapore or China, at leastTHEY would know what to do and are not afraid of world opinion when they do it!! Fry his sorry ass!
Report Post »Karama
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:58pmOh what a coincidence another muslim convert trying to kill innocent people. Why who would have ever guesses? (rolls eyes heaving a sigh) Yet we still won’t profile and keep frisking nuns and toddlers.
Report Post »nephewofdboone
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:53pmThis is a crock. It is a ruse. The FBI has been infiltrated by the progressive marxists, and they are creating these phony terrorists to draw our attention away from the truth. This is nothing but left-wing fraud. FBI, I’m calling you out. You are a part of the marxist revolution and you have to be rooted out and eliminated. You can’t sell more tires by sending your teenage punk children out slashing tires at night.
Report Post »imareader
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:51pmBet the DREAM act will take care of this as well:
Report Post »…Suspect is a Hispanic who converted to Islam..
http://www.khq.com/Global/story.asp?S=13638831
kryptonite
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 4:31pmYes! Now the Dream Act gives illegals THREE options:
1. Join the military and be a patriot (nah)
Report Post »2. Go to school and become a Marxist! (hmm, sounds interesting)
3. Join Jihad and take over America!! (where do I sign?!)
GeauxAlready
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:51pmWe are gonna need a lot of rope………………….
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:49pmAntonio Martinez, also known as Muhammad Hussain.
Report Post »Wow we hit the trifecta! A Mexican illegal immigrant, muslim, terrorist!
Drinks are on the house.
psst
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 3:22pmI thought the same.
Pointed out quickly was ” he’s a US citizen”, Is he really? So much crap is covered up nowadays, it’s hard to believe anyhing.
But he’s also known as Muhammad Hussain. Could he also just be known as Antonio Martinez?
Also quick to be pointed out. “he acted alone” They know this pretty damn quickly.
Report Post »He did not get overseas training or instructions?
But he thought he was being helped by jihadist.
Would that be foreign or local jihadists?
We got you. Wham, Bang, thank you ma’am. Case closed.All neatly tied together. Nothing new here. Just move along now.
Major Infidel
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 4:16pmBrilliant!
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 5:53pmBut since a religion wasn’t mentioned, I assumed the man was a Catholic, Jew, Baptist,, Lutheran, or maybe Mormon or Church of Christ? Could I be wrong? Might he be Muslim? Oh dear, I must be Islamophobic!
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:47pmThese are awfully small fish they’re catching using tactics any angler would frown on.
I like the message it sends to the terrorists though.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 3:56pmToo bad the scum bag lawyers on the left keep trying to free these POS crazies. It never ceases to amaze me that there are people in this country who would rather see the feds with egg on thier faces than see the potential terrorists in prison.
Report Post »AmericanSoldier
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 4:50pmYes, let’s allow the bureaucrats to dictate who qualifies for equal protection under the law, due process and representation. That‘ll teach ’em!
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:38pmMuhammad Hussain? You can bet your bottom dollar that guy is a relative of Obama.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 4:12pmObama is the son of a Muslim, while this guy is just a Latino convert. See now, there is no comparison. Obama is the real thing.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 4:20pmDon’t tell Whoopie
Report Post »manymoons768
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:34pmi am concerned about the bombs that the FBI does not know about, when are these people going to wake up, and profile,profile,profile,PROFILE.
Report Post »akim
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:47pmThere are no bombs.
Report Post »heyjim55
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 1:57pmYou clearly are buying into this whole scam, the Government creates this stuff so they can justify more loss of freedom. Homeland Security is not to protect us, it is to control us just like the SS in Germany or the KGB in Russia now called the FSB. This country is going down very fast it is collapsing on us financially, internationally, politically and Constitutionally our military is spread thin and our leaders are the worst bunch the world has ever seen. Beck is right store food and water and prepare for the worst.
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:31pmOK, Wait, I didn’t read the whole article. Let me guess, It was a home grown muzie.
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:27pmBerkley, CA will probably declare this clown a Hero also.
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:57pmFunny Guy! : ) .
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 3:47pmYes but Berkley Ca. will soon have to become cannibal, because California has run out of hand outs, so let them eat their hero‘s as gyro’s. Build a large fence around the State and call it the worlds largest cesspool.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 3:48pmBerkley, CA will probably declare this clown a Hero also.
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Maybe Cindy Sheehan should adopt this moozie, as her son.
Report Post »He could really use a mommy right now.
RobertCA
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 3:57pmBut please don‘t call this guy a muslim we don’t wanna upset Whoopi & Behar .
Report Post »Antonio Martinez !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! are you kidding me ??????????????
12 gauge
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 4:51pmbarry will probably make him a czar
Report Post »akim
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 8:46pmANOTHER GOVERNMENT HOAX
There isn’t any bomber, its just another attempt to try to convince people to surrender more freedom and liberty to Homeland Securiety Americas’ new SS (Schutzstaffel). Nepollitano is now Obama’s Heinrich Himmler. I am bewildered why American Jews fail to recognize what is happening but then they are as foolish as the German Jews who voted for Hitler.
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 9:05amThat’s ALL we need… a bunch of Mexicans named Mohammad! Yikes, we ARE toast!
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