23-year-old man has been charged with planning to detonate a backpack bomb on a Florida beach [Archive]

Sunny-side-up

29th July 2015, 17:46

Couldn't find this in Avalon search, but sorry if already posted!

The US justice department said Harlem Suarez, also known as Almlak Benitez, has been charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.
He allegedly planned to bury a bomb containing nails at a beach in Key West and detonate it with a mobile phone.
Prosecutors claim he was inspired by the Islamic State militant group, which has called for attacks on the West.
According to the FBI, Suarez recorded a video in May in which he said: "We will destroy America and divide it into two. We will raise our black flag on top of your White House and any president on duty."
Officials say he first came to the attention of the FBI in April after posting extremist messages on Facebook.
He was caught after buying a fake device from an FBI agent in a sting operation on Monday.
Several young men have been arrested in the US in recent months, with many plotting attacks in the name of the Islamic State group.

So a nail bomb in a back pack is a weapon of MASS DESTRUCTION?

Not good to try exploding any bomb, anywhere but the NEWS are trying to raise the fear porn again, with their wording!

When I saw the headline my mind instantly thinks of Nuke and or Gas!
Thankfully it was neither!

cursichella1

30th July 2015, 16:11

Burying a bomb in the sand on a beach indicates this guy is not real bright to begin with. Advertising his intentions on social media confirms it.

Which makes him a perfect candidate for being set up like his predecessors, used for setting up what can be claimed as "thwarted" events:

Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I.
Terrorist Plots, Helped Along by the F.B.I.

By DAVID K. SHIPLER
APRIL 28, 2012

THE United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years — or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol; a scheme to bomb synagogues and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft was developed by men in Newburgh, N.Y.; and a fanciful idea to fly explosive-laden model planes into the Pentagon and the Capitol was hatched in Massachusetts.

But all these dramas were facilitated by the F.B.I., whose undercover agents and informers posed as terrorists offering a dummy missile, fake C-4 explosives, a disarmed suicide vest and rudimentary training. Suspects naïvely played their parts until they were arrested.

When an Oregon college student, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, thought of using a car bomb to attack a festive Christmas-tree lighting ceremony in Portland, the F.B.I. provided a van loaded with six 55-gallon drums of “inert material,” harmless blasting caps, a detonator cord and a gallon of diesel fuel to make the van smell flammable. An undercover F.B.I. agent even did the driving, with Mr. Mohamud in the passenger seat. To trigger the bomb the student punched a number into a cellphone and got no boom, only a bust.

This is legal, but is it legitimate? Without the F.B.I., would the culprits commit violence on their own? Is cultivating potential terrorists the best use of the manpower designed to find the real ones? Judging by their official answers, the F.B.I. and the Justice Department are sure of themselves — too sure, perhaps.

Link to NY Times article. (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-helped-along-by-the-fbi.html?referrer=)

How FBI Entrapment is Inventing Terrorists

Rolling Stone
By Rick Perlstein May 15, 2012
The feds have seized an Orwellian power - the power to decide which ideas are dangerous, regardless of the genuine threat they pose.

Link to Rolling Stone article (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-fbi-entrapment-is-inventing-terrorists-and-letting-bad-guys-off-the-hook-20120515)

The FBI Goes To Disturbing Lengths To Set Up Potential Terrorists

Paul Szoldra

Mar. 11, 2013, 5:31 PM

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has busted an impressive number of homegrown terror plots over the past decade, but many people don't realize how these plots materialize. In some cases, they are hatched not from a cave-dwelling fanatic, but actually from the Bureau itself.

Ever since 9/11, the task of thwarting terrorist plots has consumed the majority of the FBI's budget — $3.3 billion compared to $2.6 billion for organized crime, according to a report written for Mother Jones by Trevor Aaronson, author of The Terror Factory.

The once exclusively investigative bureau has morphed into a counterterrorism agency, with field agents tapping into a nationwide network of informants that infiltrate mainly-Muslim communities.

The FBI targets the "disgruntled few" who would participate in a terrorist plot if given the opportunity, according to Aaronson. In many cases, the FBI recruits potential terrorists and provides them with plans, equipment, and weapons — before finally shutting them down and getting credit for thwarting another attack.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-fbi-hatched-some-crazy-terror-plots-2013-3#ixzz3hOKxXvIe