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.
Independent New England
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Would Great Britain and her commonwealth, support a break away republic of New England into her ranks again? What do you think?
( how do you create a poll?)
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hit on general discussion and in the top right it will give you the poll option
I’m sure canada would be all for it but I doubt Bostonians would be
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Thats like saying the original colonies of the US become property of England. Impossible.
More likely, England becomes part of the US.
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No one wants to be part of California. That’s what really matters.
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On behalf of the people of Canada, I declare that our nation hereby accepts Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire as provinces of our Dominion. We will also accept the Northern part of New York state, including all territory north of interstate 90, including Buffalo and Albany, as a new province that shall be named North York and its capital shall be Schenectady. Our nation welcomes all former American and Mexican citizens living in these areas to our Empire and we promise that all new citizens shall be afforded the same rights and responsibilities as natural born Canadians.
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Please take western massachusetts too!
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Alright JWW we will take Western Mass too, including everything West of I95. We get the West bound lanes of I90 and the South bound lanes of I95. We will also take Boston, but only if you take the island of Montreal.
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I refuse to accept Mexican Indians. We already have enough “First Nations”. We can’t afford to start paying into “Most Recent Nations” as well.
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Gargantua, that’s a good point but I don’t think there are a whole lot of Mexicans in those rural areas of New England. Rest assured the government of Canada will be conducting ethnic cleansing operations in these areas after the annexation and if we do find significant numbers of Mexicans we shall deport a corresponding number of Aboriginals from the Western Provinces to the United States. The ratio shall be 2 first nationers deported for every Mexican accepted.
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Alright JWW we will take Western Mass too, including everything West of I95. We get the West bound lanes of I90 and the South bound lanes of I95. We will also take Boston, but only if you take the island of Montreal.
we will take old montreal, the old part of the city near the river and what is the name of the street with all the great strip clubs? We will take that road as well but nothing else.
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Deal!! You get Montreal. :-D
and I think you mean St Catherine’s street. To quote star wars “you will never find a more wicked hive of scum and villainy.”
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Deal!! You get Montreal. :-D
and I think you mean St Catherine’s street. To quote star wars “you will never find a more wicked hive of scum and villainy.”
That’s it. How appropriate, St. Catherine’s, the patron saint of titty bars!! I forgot the name, it was many, many years ago.
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@JWW:
the patron saint of titty bars!!
One of these establishments is located smack across the street from the Eaton Centre, a big retail mall complex the size of a city block situated right downtown, on the part of Ste Catherine street which constitutes one of the area’s most popular shopping areas. It has a huge outdoor sign, too, so it’s hard to miss, but the locals – who are pretty casual about that sort of thing – hardly seem to notice it. I sometimes wonder how the tourists exiting the Eaton Centre react when they see it.
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Well, I don’t know. Some of the suburban areas in Longueil (on the South Shore of the island on Monteeal) and Laval (north of the island) are pretty sleazy too, to say nothing of the industrial neighborhood around the western end of St Jacques street. Lots of motels that rent rooms on an hourly basis, for example – establishments which you most definitely don’t find downtown on Ste Catherine street, which is on the whole a very family-friendly area.
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Canada got stuck with Montreal. No wonder they want something else :roll:
The plan should be to give Canada back to Mexico, US takes England.
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@JWW:
I forgot the name, it was many, many years ago.
You forgot it probably because you were drunk.
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could be……
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@Imperious:
Canada got stuck with Montreal. No wonder they want something else :roll:
The plan should be to give Canada back to Mexico, US takes England.
When was Canada part of Mexico?
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Well, the Spanish did settle British Columbia first.
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Consider this a note of protest. I would like the isle of Montreal to stay right where it is, thanks.
Yrs.,
R.
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