New York ‘lone wolf’ was one hour away from finishing his bomb
She also praised the New York Police Department, saying, “I think they handled it well.”
Officials with the NYPD, which conducted the undercover investigation using a confidential informant and a bugged apartment, said the department had to move quickly because Pimentel was about to test a pipe bomb made out of match heads, nails and other ingredients bought at neighborhood hardware and discount stores.
Two law enforcement officials said Monday that the NYPD’s Intelligence Division had sought to get the FBI involved at least twice as the investigation unfolded. Both times, the FBI concluded that Pimentel lacked the mental capacity to act on his own, they said.
The FBI thought Pimentel “didn’t have the predisposition or the ability to do anything on his own,” one of the officials said.
The officials were not authorized to speak about the case and spoke on condition of anonymity. The FBI’s New York office and the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan both declined to comment on Monday.
Pimentel’s lawyer, Joseph Zablocki, said his client was never a true threat.
“If the goal here is to be stopping terror … I’m not sure that this is where we should be spending our resources,” he said.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly defended the handling of the case Monday, saying the NYPD kept federal authorities in the loop “all along” before circumstances forced investigators to take swift measures using state charges.
“No question in my mind that we had to take this case down,” Kelly said. “There was an imminent threat.”
Added Kelly: “This is a classic case of what we’ve been talking about �� the lone wolf, an individual, self-radicalized. This is the needle in the haystack problem we face as a country and as a city.”
Authorities described Pimentel as an unemployed U.S. citizen and “al-Qaida sympathizer” who was born in the Dominican Republic. He had lived most of his life in Manhattan, aside from about five years in the upstate city of Schenectady, where authorities say he had an arrested for credit card fraud.
His mother said he was raised Roman Catholic. But he converted to Islam in 2004 and went by the name Muhammad Yusuf, authorities said.
Using a tip from police in Albany, the NYPD had been watching Pimentel using a confidential informant for the past year. Investigators learned that he was energized and motivated to carry out his plan by the Sept. 30 killing of al-Qaida’s U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, police said.
Pimentel was under constant surveillance as he shopped for the pipe bombmaterials. He also was overheard talking about attacking police patrol cars and postal facilities, killing soldiers returning home from abroad andbombing a police station in Bayonne, N.J., authorizes said.
Living in New Jersey?
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NJ serves a vital role as a state every other state can feel better than
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well, it might be 9/10 paved areas, but they still have pretty good beaches in the south (thats the cool part b/c it’s closer to VA than the northen portion of the state)
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Considering we make more money than any other state… have the best education system in the country… and more gambling than in Las Vegas per year…
NJ > all
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Considering we make more money than any other state
Sure… :roll:
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how do you know they make more $$ than any other state? i’m sure california makes more, only b/c their population is like 100 times more than NJ
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I lived in Engelwood, New Jersey, for a year and a half many years ago. Does that count?
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Emu, you lived less than 20 minutes away from me :) I live in Ramsey, next to Mahwah. My doctor operates out of Englewood.
New Jersey makes the most money per person in the US.
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is that in the north part or the south part?
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Northeast.
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@Sarcasm:
Gambling, wow, you do have a great state. Got to love that polluted air and water! :)
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Wenta Joisey oncet wif sum frinds.
Ended up ona road near a mall dat hada barrier sos we hada trabel moren 3 milesta toin arount an go back to where we started sos we could cross da street.
Had a great soda made by elves… no… Tommyknockers! found I could order it on-line.
I know NJ has more pharmaceutical research centers than any state except CA. Most of the subjects are ex-cons looking for a quick buck. One of my frinds has been to most of the centers.
I’ve found a great author, F. Paul Wilson, who writes horror short stories and books that often include the Jersey Barrens. Just finished The Haunted Air, one of Wilson’s ‘The Adversary’ series (known to his fans as ‘Repairman Jack.’
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IP addresses are unique. Unless of course, you’re sharing the same computer with someone. Even if you’re in the same region, it’s not possible for you to all have the same IP address. If someone is on Dial-up, then their IP address gets recycled back into the bunch and gets reused again by someone, so that could be a possibility. That would probably only happen if you’re all on the same ISP.
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Why does anyone care, anyway?
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Yanny, I back you. Born and raised in NJ (Brick and Woodbridge Townships). Left when I was 18 for the Navy…
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Deviant, that is what I thought. Here was my hypothesis:
All users posted from my school (As I and DasEwokSS have in the past). But that is not possible because many of those posts were made on Saterday or Late at night.
Regardless, it lists half a dozen users from posting from the same address. I don’t know much about the issue, but I am guessing we all use the same ISP (I know DasEwokSS and I both use Verizon DSL).
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I have also posted before from my school.
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how do you get the chance to go on the internet at school
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I log on in the library or the computer lab before or after school.
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my school librarian hates me, so i can’t really use the computers in there, and the computer lab is always being used by the high schoolers, so any middle schoolers stepping in are quickly expelled manually.
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i have a free period on my last period so usually i go to the PC lab and play games or surf the web ;)
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