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10/27/2010

Breaking: Bomb Plot Against D.C. Metro?

Filed under: General — Aaron Worthing @ 12:07 pm



For outsiders, “metro” is our word for “subway” (except sometimes it is above ground).  Anyway, the Washington Post has the details.

It was some right wing nut behind this, right?

22 Responses to “Breaking: Bomb Plot Against D.C. Metro?”

  1. It was some right wing nut behind this, right?

    No, but that’s an easy mistake to make. AQ is prone to political violence, is in favor of theocracies, and likes to suppress the rights of others, but that’s about all they share with the far right.

    Kman (d25c82) — 10/27/2010 @ 12:41 pm

  2. The far right is prone to political violence and in favor of theocracies, according to Kman.

    And that’s information you can take to the bank. The bank will look at you like you’re a nutcase, but you could take it there if you wanted.

    Dustin (b54cdc) — 10/27/2010 @ 12:49 pm

  3. Sounds like more FBI entrapment.

    I mean, everyone of his “accomplices” were informants? How is this even a news story?

    AJB (d64738) — 10/27/2010 @ 1:07 pm

  4. AJB has a really good point, and I really hate to admit this because I want these scumbags in prison.

    If he’s arrested for video taping the station in prep for an attack, but it was faux-al-qaida (the FBI) who told him to tape the place, how is that not entrapment?

    I like the idea that al-qaida is paranoid and chewing itself up worrying about who is really the FBI, but doesn’t this cross the line?

    Dustin (b54cdc) — 10/27/2010 @ 1:13 pm

  5. If he’s arrested for video taping the station in prep for an attack, but it was faux-al-qaida (the FBI) who told him to tape the place, how is that not entrapment?

    Good question. The definition of entrapment varies from state to state, but generally entrapment only occurs when the law (here, the FBI) induces someone to commit a crime that they wouldn’t have committed otherwise. In other words, if a person is ready, willing and able to commit the crime, then it’s not entrapment to surround him with a sting operation.

    Kman (d25c82) — 10/27/2010 @ 1:23 pm

  6. Well we would need to know at what point, he came to the attention of the undercover agents,

    ian cormac (6709ab) — 10/27/2010 @ 1:26 pm

  7. Wasn’t there a Fed Court decision recently that photographing a rail facility is not a crime, and someone who does so should not be subject to arrest for that action?

    AD-RtR/OS! (c987f6) — 10/27/2010 @ 1:30 pm

  8. Well we would need to know at what point, he came to the attention of the undercover agents…

    Or more importantly, how he came to the attention of the undercover agents. My guess — and it’s only a guess — is that they probably monitor some AQ websites; he made some comments online indicating a willingness to… well… do something; they were able to track him down, and they set up a sting operation to see if he was serious.

    I highly doubt they would single out this dude beforehand for no reason at all.

    Kman (d25c82) — 10/27/2010 @ 1:35 pm

  9. Wasn’t there a Fed Court decision recently that photographing a rail facility is not a crime, and someone who does so should not be subject to arrest for that action?

    That alone isn’t a crime, but it is if your intent is to provide those photos to terrorists in furtherance of some planned terrorist act.

    Kman (d25c82) — 10/27/2010 @ 1:37 pm

  10. Obviously another right wing christianist teabagging Jesuslander nut who wants to do strange things to your uterus.

    Obviously Kman shares nishi’s phobia of Christian religion, while pretending the right is actually the irrational side of the political spectrum. To a delusional person such as Kman that probably makes sense. Others, not so much.

    daleyrocks (940075) — 10/27/2010 @ 1:42 pm

  11. “Or more importantly, how he came to the attention of the undercover agents.”

    Kman – It was obviously from Obama’s illegal wiretaps of American citizens. Wake up!

    daleyrocks (940075) — 10/27/2010 @ 1:44 pm

  12. Mmm… yes, only the right wing is prone to political violence. pay no attention to the violence that occurs like clockwork at the g8 summits and every union strike.

    And of course a theocracy is defined by the left as being when you have a democracy or republic where the laws are based on a morality informed by faith. which is what we have had since… 1789.

    and as for the rights of others, anyone who disagrees with Citizens United is not entitled to complain that we do not recognize a constitutional right to gay marriage. Those who disagree with citizens united wish to deny rights actually written in the constitution, as opposed to things that were not written.

    And once again, we have been denying the so-called “right” to gay marriage since 1789. So George Washington = Mullah Omar, i suppose.

    Aaron Worthing (e7d72e) — 10/27/2010 @ 1:49 pm

  13. It was obviously from Obama’s illegal wiretaps of American citizens. Wake up!

    Grrrrrr. Probably. :-/

    Kman (d25c82) — 10/27/2010 @ 1:49 pm

  14. He was pursuing a graduate degree online in risk management and…

    Fail.

    Blacque Jacques Shellacque (609d83) — 10/27/2010 @ 1:55 pm

  15. And it is only kmart who still believes that the monitoring of international email off persons within the United States to/from known terrorist addresses is a violation of someone’s rights, irrespective of the decisions of the FISA court.

    AD-RtR/OS! (c987f6) — 10/27/2010 @ 1:56 pm

  16. Hillbilly Christianist teabag nut prolly thought the Metro was an abortion clinic or something, right Kman?

    daleyrocks (940075) — 10/27/2010 @ 2:03 pm

  17. It would be really Machiavellian if this whole story were psy-ops, precisely to make AQ paranoid as H@&&.

    LarryD (f22286) — 10/27/2010 @ 3:00 pm

  18. Obviously another right wing christianist teabagging Jesuslander nut who wants to do strange things to your uterus.

    Don’t forget military veteran.

    malclave (1db6c5) — 10/27/2010 @ 3:04 pm

  19. A War on Terrorism tangent….

    Did anyone see/read Fouad Ajami’s OpEd in this morning’s WSJ about Afghanistan?

    A devastating critique of the current National Security Leadership, that concludes with…

    “…A big American project, our longest war, is now waged with doubt and hesitation, and our ally on the scene has gone rogue, taking the coin of our enemies and scoffing at our purposes. Unlike the Third World clients of old, this one does not even bother to pay us the tribute of double-speak and hypocrisy. He is a different kind of client, but then, too, our authority today is but a shadow of what it once was.”
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303341904575576342977166312.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_h

    AD-RtR/OS! (c987f6) — 10/27/2010 @ 3:31 pm

  20. “It was some right wing nut behind this, right?”

    My guess is he doesn’t believe in the separation between church and state.

    imdw (47a9bf) — 10/27/2010 @ 5:50 pm

  21. But he definitely believes in the separation of your head from your own arsehole.

    Dmac (ad2c6a) — 10/27/2010 @ 6:48 pm

  22. “And it is only kmart who still believes that the monitoring of international email off persons within the United States to/from known terrorist addresses is a violation of someone’s rights, irrespective of the decisions of the FISA court.”

    Does this have something to do with this case?

    imdw (a863d5) — 10/27/2010 @ 8:34 pm


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