Attempted Bombing in Baltimore Area
[Guest post by Aaron Worthing; if you have tips, please send them here.]
This time at a military recruitment center in the greater Baltimore area:
A man was arrested Wednesday for plotting to blow up a military recruitment center in the Baltimore area, authorities said.
Antonio Martinez, a Muslim convert who called himself Muhammed Hussain, was arrested and is expected to appear later Wednesday in federal court, Fox News confirms.
Martinez, a U.S. citizen, was caught in a sting operation as he tried to detonate a phony bomb at an Armed Forces recruiting station in Catonsville, just outside Baltimore, officials said.
“A Baltimore man has been arrested this morning in connection with a scheme to attack an Armed Forces recruiting station in Catonsville, Maryland, with what he believed to be vehicle bomb,” U.S. Department of Justice spokesman Dean Boyd said in a statement sent to Fox News. “There was no actual danger to the public as the explosives were inert and the suspect had been carefully monitored by law enforcement for months.”
(Source.) Yep that’s another sting. So expect some liberal idiot to cry “entrapment” in 3… 2… 1…
And in case you are wondering:
There was no evidence the plot was linked to recent shootings at military installations in the Washington area, authorities said. Baltimore is about 40 miles (65 kilometers) north of Washington.
Incidentally, there doesn’t seem to have been any more of those shootings—at least not for a while.
[Posted and authored by Aaron Worthing.]
I’d be curious to find out if this guy is another prison convert.
carlitos (261dcd) — 12/8/2010 @ 2:23 pmI wonder what his motive was.
/MSM
aunursa (69b3db) — 12/8/2010 @ 2:37 pmGee, I wonder if he has any religious affiliation of any kind. But then again, just mentioning that subject makes me a wanton racist.
Dmac (498ece) — 12/8/2010 @ 2:42 pmAhhhh … here are some potential clues…
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-bomb-plot-arrest-20101208,0,739343.story?page=3
aunursa (69b3db) — 12/8/2010 @ 2:44 pmSee we had this assignment, to make this ceramic elephant, and um – and we had eight weeks to do it and we’re s’posed ta, and it was like a lamp, and when you pull the trunk the light was s’posed to go on. My light didn’t go on, I got a F on it. Never got a F in my life.
happyfeet (a55ba0) — 12/8/2010 @ 2:56 pmThis is clearly another case of FBI entrapment of a peace loving goat herder.
JD (b98cae) — 12/8/2010 @ 3:07 pmAnother Republican attempting to negotiate for lower taxes by taking America hostage.
Dustin (b54cdc) — 12/8/2010 @ 3:16 pmAnother day, another attempt at man-caused disaster from the Religion of Peace.
Bring on that Ground Zero Community Center!
daleyrocks (c07dfa) — 12/8/2010 @ 3:49 pmI wonder if he’s a member of either LaRaza or MeChA?
AD-RtR/OS! (b8ab92) — 12/8/2010 @ 3:55 pmClearly just someone justifiably upset about the delay in repealing DADT.
malclave (1db6c5) — 12/8/2010 @ 4:33 pmmalcave
no, no… he’s upset about the sharks controlled by mossad. 🙂
Aaron Worthing (b8e056) — 12/8/2010 @ 4:48 pm@11
Or at least, that they don’t have frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads.
malclave (1db6c5) — 12/8/2010 @ 5:53 pmEntrapment is not such a bad thing. Even when the govt. is doing a somewhat bogus thing of peddling fake bombs to Islamic clowns wanting to blow up da Joos… it does serve a useful purpose. Hey watch out – anyone anywhere appearing to help you out with explosives may be a government informant in a sting.
The big picture here is not whether these specific crimes are legit to go forward with. It’s shutting down the wholesale operation. Entrapment is an effective, and somewhat funny, tool to do this.
Wesson (019671) — 12/8/2010 @ 7:54 pmDeranged christers from the Methodist Church strike again.
JD (eb5afc) — 12/8/2010 @ 7:57 pmAgreed, Wesson. I love the paranoia for terrorists aspect.
Dustin (b54cdc) — 12/8/2010 @ 8:09 pmIf you martyr yourself to John Wesley, you get 72 potlucks in the afterlife.
Dustin (b54cdc) — 12/8/2010 @ 8:10 pmLots of baked macaroni casserole and green beans with cream of mushroom soup and those crunchy fried onion thingies.
JD (eb5afc) — 12/8/2010 @ 8:15 pmThe “green beans with cream of mushroom soup and those crunchy fried onion thingies” thing gives one an unbelievable case of enormous gas. You know, it is one of those “this is way too much” types of things.
Wesson (019671) — 12/8/2010 @ 10:06 pmWar is everywhere!:(
Leevan Banzuelo (053e99) — 12/8/2010 @ 11:22 pmB-b-but Geraldo, on O’Reiley, said he was tricked into it. If the FBI would have left him alone he would have neeeever done anything to hurt anyone. ‘Cause Geraldo said so. And he has never been wrong, right?
PatriotRider (8cd725) — 12/9/2010 @ 6:13 amWait, terrorism that was prevented with old fashion police work and ingenuity? Surely you can’t be serious. There was no TSA X-ray machine, no warrantless wiretap, no prying into what books a person is checking out from the library? Wow, I guess they just got lucky. :/
Or going along the “typical liberal response to this”: I bet they racially profiled the guy! 😛
Nate_MI (8efdaa) — 12/9/2010 @ 6:24 amGeraldo actually said that the FBI was “seducing” these young men into committing these crimes. apparently, instead of entrapment, we now have the legal defense of seduction.
Rochf (ae9c58) — 12/9/2010 @ 6:54 am