 Police stay on guard at Riverdale Jewish Center |
Four men have been arrested in a suspected plot to bomb a synagogue and Jewish community center in New York City and to shoot at military planes with stinger missiles.
A joint release from the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, the FBI and the New York Police Department said the suspects were charged with plotting to detonate explosives near a synagogue in the Riverdale section of New York’s Bronx borough.
The men were also charged with plotting to shoot military planes located at New York’s Air National Guard base at Stewart airport in Newburgh, New York, with stinger surface-to-air guided missiles, the statement said. Newburgh is about 60 miles north of New York City.
“The defendants wanted to engage in terrorist attacks. They selected targets and sought the weapons necessary to carry out their plans,” Lev Dassin, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in the statement.
The four men, identified as James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen, were arrested after buying an inactive missile and inert explosives in a sting operation run by the FBI and other agencies…
The complaint said they bought an arsenal in May that included improvised explosive devices containing inert C-4 plastic explosives and a surface-to-air guided missile provided by the FBI that was not capable of being fired…
Each man is charged with one count of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction within the United States, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, and one count of conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles, which also carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
Three of the four born and brought up in the GOUSA.
#21, benson,
That video was debumked here at DU a short while back. Its sole purpose is to incite racial hatred.
The FBI provided the missile and “explosives”. I’m wondering how much more they encouraged these idiots from a griping session to what ended up being.
#31 said and they still haven’t been convicted last i heard.
Yup, that’s our wonderful legal system and ACLU in action. Prevaricate and obfuscate for months and months, but be sure to keep the govt-paid meter running.
As well as our importing trouble in the form of Muslim immigrants, Islam in the West has become a magnet for home-grown psychopaths, predators and perverts.
Since the Koran sanctions attacking raping and plundering the infidels, criminals of all descriptions are eager to convert so they can get divine justification for their activities.
See links under ‘Criminality’ and ‘Predators, Plunderers and Parasites’ at http://kwelos.tripod.com/subjects.htm
>> Ron Larson said, on May 21st, 2009 at 5:06 am
>> This certainty smells of the “amateur hour” wannabe idiots that the FBI has paraded out in the past. We will see.
I’m still withholding judgment but it sure seems to be one of those bogus “sting” operations.
I worry that these “Sting” operations are not much more than recruiting and suppying these nut jobs like that gang in Florida a couple of years ago. They have no ability to do any harm until the FBI enables them.
Sounds like the ring leader was the informer.
Not all that good in my view but these guys obviously had the wish and when they thought he could provide the means they acted. Now they do time.
Those evangelical Christians they caught wanted to do harm….oh wait…I see, it’s the “Religion of Peace” (Home grown Americans who want to live in the 13th Century).
Ship them off to Gitmo East. The Pleidians will help rid us of the Lizard People for they are from the light (in the morning!).
And all this was accomplished without resorting to waterboarding. Amazing what a bit of honest, hard working, investigation can turn up. Not that lazy ass method of torturing the info out of people. Fake C-4? I like that. You can’t test it without nearly blowing yourself up, or wasting the stuff. I’ll bet the NRA will have something to say about the feds selling fake C-4 and dud missiles.
#36- Is the ACLU involved in that case? I can’t find any evidence of that.
All in all. I don’t like sting operations. If you have people that seem hell bent to do something like this, put them under surveillance.
#36
-ah no, it has nothing to do with the ACLU.
they don’t have any evidence that could
stand public scrutiny. -just like almost
all the “big terror busts” they just use’em for headline news to condition you.
you’d think we’d have seen the trials for
all these high profile cases..
go looks at the cases.
its all false-flag psyOp crap.
-Bin Laden still is not wanted in
connection for 9/11. -they have no evidence.
go check his FBI Most Wanted picture on fbi.gov
if you have any local friends in the military, go ask’em what orders they’ve been given for summer training.
-this summer is going to be an eye opener.
-s
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Turn off your TV.
#45 said: -ah no, it has nothing to do with the ACLU.
they don’t have any evidence that could
stand public scrutiny
So, when has the lack of evidence or even common sense ever stopped one of the ACLU activist lawyers from filing another frivolous suit?
#46, benson,
Why don’t you cite one of those frivolous suits you are whining about.
When there wasn’t any crime committed in the budgeted time, the government went ahead and invented one.
Agent provocateur to the rescue. It’s a win-win situation.
Attorney General’s resume? WIN… another prosecution.
FBI? WIN… another justification for next year’s budget.
Conservative politicians? WIN… another fear inducing story to have people fall in line.
Media? WIN… another fear inducing story to have people justify their ad rates.
WIN-WIN-WIN-WIN-WIN.
http://www.alternet.org/world/140209/fbi_blows_it:_supposed_terror_plot_against_ny_synagogues_is_bogus/
Oh, goodness. The conservatives want to ship these guys off to Guantanamo without even determining if they are guilty!
I am _still_ with holding judgment but check this out:
FBI Blows It: Supposed Terror Plot Against NY Synagogues Is Bogus
By Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation. Posted May 23, 2009.
Turns out it is really the handiwork of a creepy FBI informant. The story strengthens the narrative that the “homeland” is under attack. It’s not.
http://tinyurl.com/oz5v82