According to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Jose Pimentel was a "lone wolf."
Is that supposed to reassure the public?
From the New York Times:
A Manhattan man who became fascinated by the American-born Muslim militant Anwar al-Awlaki was arrested on charges of plotting to build and detonate bombs in New York, city officials announced on Sunday night.
At a hastily called City Hall news conference, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, who appeared alongside Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., said the man, Jose Pimentel, 27, had begun in August to plot a bomb attack. But it was the death of Mr. Awlaki, who was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in September, that “jacked up his speed, so to speak.”
Mr. Kelly said that Mr. Pimentel, a convert to Islam who was also known as Muhammad Yusuf, had been under police surveillance for more than two years and was arrested on Saturday after he had come close to completing at least three bombs.
Holes had been drilled into the pipes, sulfur had been scraped off matches, nails were ready to be used as shrapnel, and wires were used to fashion an ignition device, according to a law enforcement official.
Mr. Pimentel planned to test his abilities by detonating mailboxes, before embarking on a bombing campaign around New York City, Mr. Kelly said.
Mr. Kelly added: “Pimentel talked about killing U.S. military personnel returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan, particularly Marines and Army personnel. He talked about bombing post offices in and around Washington Heights and police cars in New York City, as well as a police station in Bayonne, N.J.”
“Once his bombing campaign began, Mr. Pimentel said the public would know that there were muhajideen in the city to fight jihad here,” Mr. Kelly said.
Mr. Bloomberg and Mr. Kelly said, however, that Mr. Pimentel as was not part of a conspiracy, had no known contacts abroad and, in the mayor’s words, “appears to be a total lone wolf.”
So Pimentel has been under police surveillance for more than two years.
I guess those Bush era policies that Obama decided to keep in place are still paying off.
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Pimentel planned to target government buildings and police officers with bombs, also military personnel.
He sounds a lot like Bill Ayers.
Pimentel also seems to share the disdain for the police and the military exhibited by the Occupy protesters.
Although Pimentel and radicals like Ayers and the Occupiers have different motives, their goal is the same as extremists - war on the United States, bringing down the country, destruction.
Extremists.
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