BREAKING NEWS: FBI False Flag Bombing Attempt? Portland Oregon
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Federal prosecutors say a Somali-born teenager plotted to carry out a car bomb attack at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Portland on Friday night, but the bomb turned out to be a dud supplied by undercover agents as part of a sting. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at about 5:45 pm just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would blow up a van laden with explosives, but instead brought federal agents and Portland police swooping in to take him into custody. Federal court documents show the sting operation began in June after an undercover agent learned that Mohamud had been in contact with an "unindicted associate" in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier region. Mohamud is a naturalized US citizen who has been living in Corvallis, prosecutors said. According to a federal complaint, Mohamud was in regular e-mail contact with the "unindicted associate" in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier starting in August 2009. The complaint states that in December 2009 Mohamud and the "unindicted associate" used coded language in an e-mail in which the FBI believes Mohamud discussed traveling to Pakistan to prepare for "violent jihad." The document says in the months that followed Mohamud made "multiple efforts" to contact another "unindicted associate" to arrange travel to Pakistan but had a faulty e-mail address for that person. Last June an FBI agent contacted Mohamud "under the guise of being affiliated with the first associate." Mohamud ...
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