 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.
Is this another one of those “sting” operations which are really an instigation?
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wow when some one comes up to you and is like would you like a stinger missiles the first thing that would come to mind is wow this guy must be a Fed.
Yesterday, Obama Administration accused of being weak on national security…
And today we have a foiled terror plot…
Hummmmm…
I notice it was the FBI and local police who caught these guys, not Homeland Security…
1993 WTC Bombing
FBI Agent + FBI informant + FBI Bomb + real terrorists = 6 dead and 1,042 injured + huge increase in anti-terror funding
You wish you could see that many police officers in the bad areas of New York.
All other considerations aside, aren’t we cheapening the definition of “weapon of mass destruction”? Shouldn’t this term be reserved for weapons that bring about a holocaust, say nuclear or bio weapons? Just like defining a granny who causes a fuss on an airplane as a terrorist cheapens that word. Words are powerful and bring images and emotions to our mind.
It should be interesting to watch how we in the west will whitewash this with political correctness
#7 – all areas of New York are bad.
Great, the next group of these whackos will know to repair the equipment before using it.
WTG!
Imagine if you will these Jerky’s had an actual working stinger missile when Air Force One is doing a Fly By of Lower Manhattan.
Want to talk about anti-terrorism funding generation… whew!!!
This really makes me believe more in the story from a while back where people claimed seeing missile streaking toward commercial flights off the NYC area coastline.
Maybe #2 said this already as I thought I saw the comment earlier–but I’ve been waiting for more details==got this 24/7 news monkey on my back.
“BUT” this stinks of entrapment of retards. So far, I note they just arrested these 4 guys–no following the terrorist group up their chain of command to Ben Ladin etc. In other words, the smallest of small fry threats one could imagine. It will be hyped out of all proportions.
They still deserve to go to jail–unless they tried to opt out/quit 3-4 times and the police informant kept the group together? In such a case, just further criminalization of those who need mental health services.
No one should feel “safer” about our security services. This proves nothing.
This certainty smells of the “amateur hour” wannabe idiots that the FBI has paraded out in the past. We will see.
#13, Bobbo
I have to go with your feelings on this one. A bunch of wannabes fed by the government so they can have a case to hang their funding requests on.
#15–fusion==you’re being even more cynical than myself, and therefore, more likely correct.
I was thinking just the police on a power trip taking advantage of the easily lead and the points/ego strokes for “busting terrorists” but I hadn’t thought of an actual monetary motivation.
As usual, you have bested me again.
I knew I woke up feeling distracted for a reason.
#13, Bobbo,
While refilling my coffee it occured to me, there are a lot of crazies out there. Geeze, just think of Alphie for example. What would Alphie NOT do to further the agenda of his “god”.
Alphie has already wished he could be on a grassy knoll, M1 in hand as you and I go by beneath him. Maybe his youth is coming back to him and he is reliving his life as a carnival game.
I’m changing my thoughts to very plausible.
RE #18,
Damn!!! I’m scaring myself.
One foreign born Muslim & 3 domestic Mussies. All 4 black. Pretty simple profile to look for…
BTW Eideard, this investigation was started while Bush was in office. Fail on trying to give credit to O’mama…
Eideard said: Three of the four born and brought up in the GOUSA.
And your point is…?
According to the news reports, “They stated that they wanted to commit jihad.”
Yup, they are here in the GOUSA. Check out this video for more details.
http://bit.ly/wsxW5
Yet another entrapment of people dumber than rocks just like EVERY other “see how we’re protecting you” bust so far. I’m sure there were these sort of sting operations taking place during the 9/11 preparations, too, and perhaps even some taking place at the same time that the not as dumb as rocks criminals were flying 767s into various buildings making the three letter agencies, the $40 billion dollars worth of “intelligence” agencies and the $500 billion Department of “Defense” look dumber than rocks in the aftermath.
#23 says If this had been professional terrorists…
News Flash! Amateur terrorists can kill people too. And the “dumbasses” were not just thinking about terrorism. They were actively involved.
By the way, the 19 terrorists on 9/11 were “dumbasses” also.
By the way, the 19 terrorists on 9/11 were “dumbasses” also.
Yeah, but they had help from the Mossad, which is a lot more competent than the fibbies.
Born in the GOUSA, but still muslim nut jobs.
Wonder why we only hear stories about muslims causing problems, but never solving any or adding to the wealth of human knowledge. Why is that?
(One was from Haiti though.)
The timing of this is very convenient if you are say, oh, Dick Cheney, and are trying to stoke fears about having the ‘worst of the worst’ among us.
What better way to do so, than to inject some homegrown terrorists into the news cycle?
This…*sputter*… this is why we need Gitmo!!
And I’m just so upset about this, that I forgot my retirement savings are gone.
The NRA says they were simply getting ready for deer hunting.
If not, credit to President Obama for keeping us safe.
-please…what a convoluted story. this is almost as absurd as the bunch old guys the feds busted in 2007 for allegedly plotting to blow up the fuel tanks and lines feeding JFK airport.
and they still haven’t been convicted last i heard.
-S
Wow they were able to find and stop them and no one had to be waterboarded to tip off the FBI.
Cheney, Stick it!
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…as an aside, whats with the Jewish angle?
i thought we were attacked because of our decadent freedoms?
feels like someone is trying to create more pro Jewish sympathy to make swallowing a possible US/Israel attack on Iran in October a bit easier..(?)
so maybe next month, we’ll see an attack on a jewish wall street firm (maybe one that needs
to have its records conveniently “vanish”) to step up the rhetoric even further??
-not looking forward to this summer and fall.
-s