I’ve heard of the war on Christmas but this is ridiculous.
Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, a Somali-born U.S. citizen, was arrested 18 minutes before a Christmas tree lighting was to occur, a ceremony attended by thousands of Oregonians.
It seems the FBI was onto this guy for a while and thwarted the bomb plot at the tree lighting at Pioneer Courthouse Square on Friday night.
Gateway Pundit has the details.
November 27, 2010 at 3:00 pm
Clearly the police failed to respect Mr. Mohamed Mohamud's (or is that Mohamud Mohamed?) special needs to express his existential angst at his oppression by evil Christians.
— Mack
November 27, 2010 at 3:29 pm
His arrest was part of a long-term undercover operation, during which Mohamud had been watched closely for months as his alleged bomb plot developed.
Foiled by good police work and not waterboarding? Amazing.
November 27, 2010 at 4:07 pm
This is close to where my parents live- probably had friends shopping there at the time…
November 27, 2010 at 4:34 pm
"needs to express his existential angst " Oh no, they curtailed his first amendment rights! What is this country coming to
November 27, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Mr. Mohamud is obviously protesting the environmental havoc caused by cutting down a tree for the ceremony. We had it coming. I'm sure you all understand.
Deforestation and car bombs are both man-made disasters, so let's promote greater understanding through global environmental awareness so that peace will result. If only Bush had acted on the Kyoto Protocols this unfortunate incident never would have happened.
White racist Christian Teabaggers are wrong make any judgments about Mr. Mohamud's ethnicity, religion or country of orgin. He acted alone or with a small band of conspirators with no particular background worth mentioning.
Have I mentioned the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church recently?
November 27, 2010 at 7:11 pm
And yet our government continues to grant preferential immigration status to Somalians, going out of its way to place them in American towns & cities and give them jobs which I'm sure Americans would not have minded filling.
Yay, "diversity"!
November 27, 2010 at 9:20 pm
And the Church wants to "dialogue" with the "religion" that produces these murderers, let alone refuses to condemn or reprimand them? Catholics, enough is enough! Demand a more confrontational approach to Islam than the Church is currently providing.
November 27, 2010 at 9:29 pm
They could always send D'Hippo to do the same monologue he's done for years.
November 27, 2010 at 11:47 pm
Anon 12:43,
🙂
November 28, 2010 at 12:11 am
Anon suggests that Mr. Mohamud was protesting the environmental havoc caused by cutting down a tree
Perhaps, but I thought he was a Baptist, annoyed at this expression of traditional Popery.
November 28, 2010 at 2:12 am
Ah ha! The Grinch is a Muslim!
November 28, 2010 at 10:41 pm
God is love. Love needs the other to love. Perfect love is a person. The Triune God is the only true God
November 29, 2010 at 5:09 pm
I'm kind of surprised that no one here seems to sense a false-flag operation, because this case has that written all over it.
I would respectfully suggest that all give this case a careful reading, and look beyond the headline and the first paragraph. You don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to smell something real bad about this story.
Just one example: read what the FBI agents were saying (re:goading) to this guy. Very odd, to say the least.
November 30, 2010 at 10:46 am
it's easy to be right when in a monologue. funny how all fundamentalist look the same, being crescent, cross or star.
November 30, 2010 at 2:03 pm
I agree that this kid was suspect and worth keeping a close eye on, but I think it's a stretch to say that the FBI "thwarted the bomb plot." The FBI created the bomb plot, trained the kid to blow up a bomb, gave him $3,000 cash to rent an apartment and provided him with a **fake** bomb. No one was ever in danger here, though they sure got the crap scared out of them…by the FBI!
November 30, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Anonymous said…
They could always send D'Hippo to do the same monologue he's done for years.
Anonymous said…
Anon 12:43, 🙂
You know, Messers Anonymi, it really enhances your credibility to attack someone's assertions without having the temerity to say who you are.
BTW, Mark Shea, is that you?
December 1, 2010 at 1:32 am
Dan…you're absolutely correct!