New York ‘lone wolf’ was one hour away from finishing his bomb
She also praised the New York Police Department, saying, “I think they handled it well.”
Officials with the NYPD, which conducted the undercover investigation using a confidential informant and a bugged apartment, said the department had to move quickly because Pimentel was about to test a pipe bomb made out of match heads, nails and other ingredients bought at neighborhood hardware and discount stores.
Two law enforcement officials said Monday that the NYPD’s Intelligence Division had sought to get the FBI involved at least twice as the investigation unfolded. Both times, the FBI concluded that Pimentel lacked the mental capacity to act on his own, they said.
The FBI thought Pimentel “didn’t have the predisposition or the ability to do anything on his own,” one of the officials said.
The officials were not authorized to speak about the case and spoke on condition of anonymity. The FBI’s New York office and the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan both declined to comment on Monday.
Pimentel’s lawyer, Joseph Zablocki, said his client was never a true threat.
“If the goal here is to be stopping terror … I’m not sure that this is where we should be spending our resources,” he said.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly defended the handling of the case Monday, saying the NYPD kept federal authorities in the loop “all along” before circumstances forced investigators to take swift measures using state charges.
“No question in my mind that we had to take this case down,” Kelly said. “There was an imminent threat.”
Added Kelly: “This is a classic case of what we’ve been talking about �� the lone wolf, an individual, self-radicalized. This is the needle in the haystack problem we face as a country and as a city.”
Authorities described Pimentel as an unemployed U.S. citizen and “al-Qaida sympathizer” who was born in the Dominican Republic. He had lived most of his life in Manhattan, aside from about five years in the upstate city of Schenectady, where authorities say he had an arrested for credit card fraud.
His mother said he was raised Roman Catholic. But he converted to Islam in 2004 and went by the name Muhammad Yusuf, authorities said.
Using a tip from police in Albany, the NYPD had been watching Pimentel using a confidential informant for the past year. Investigators learned that he was energized and motivated to carry out his plan by the Sept. 30 killing of al-Qaida’s U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, police said.
Pimentel was under constant surveillance as he shopped for the pipe bombmaterials. He also was overheard talking about attacking police patrol cars and postal facilities, killing soldiers returning home from abroad andbombing a police station in Bayonne, N.J., authorizes said.
The most disgusting thing you've ever encountered?
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I’ve seen gross things come and gross things go…
But the grossest thing I can instantly recall seeing is one day when my dad woke me up at 5 in the morning (On his way to work) to inform me that there was half of a cat on the front lawn.
That’s quite literally what it was, HALF of a cat, with guts and entrails spread throughout the grass - blood on every leaf.
I never found the other half of the creature, or determined how it ended up like that… but it was nasty.
ALMOST as nasty as when one of the guys came to work an entered the first aid office…
“Hey I just got back from Amersterdam, and there is some kind of boil that’s moving/bubbling on my inner leg, and now I’m seeing signs of it directly across and on my other leg, can you look at it?” -
Call me naive, what was it Garg?
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OK here’s my top 5. They all have to do with foul odours.
The ultimate stink was encountered when I used to work as a maintenance guy at a large distribution center. One day some idiot seagull decided to take a rotten chicken out of the dumpster and place it in the middle of the parking lot. The meat was completely liquified and even though the parking lot was outside and about a square mile in size, everyone at work was complaining about the smell so you-know-who had to go pick it up. That was bad.
The second most disgusting thing was cleaning out the elevator pit that had about 6 inches of stagnant water and cigarette butts.
Third most disgusting thing was cleaning out an unused warehouse that had been occupied by pigeons for a long time.
Fourth most disgusting was cleaning out that same warehouse again after a shipment of “fishmeal” (i.e. semi-rotten fish gunk leftover from a processing plant that they use to make fishfood pellets for fishfarming) had been temporarily stored in the warehouse for a few weeks in the summer.
Fifth most disgusting thing was one time we went away for the weekend and when we came home i noticed the cat looked funny and he had a scratch on his head. Guess he was in a fight before we left and now it was infected. So I got some peroxide and started to clean it and when the scab popped loose a stream of blood/pus went spraying all over the bathroom. That was stinky.
OK I just remembered a 6th stinker also to do with cats. The neighbor went into the hospital for a while and his cat was left to its own devices. It managed to get out of his house somehow and showed up on our porch one rainy night very thin and with a badly infected wound on its back. When I picked it up maggots came out of the wound and it smelled like rotten meat. I took it to the vet next day and had her put down. The vet thanked me.
My life stinks.
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Top five most disgusting things.
1. My mother-in-law’s 7 day old corspe.
2. An opossum exiting the a$$ of a dead horse.
3. A kid on thanksgiving dinner day in Jr. Highschool throwing up on the school bus while the bus was on a long upward hill with a good many stops.
4. A large wild feral cat getting torn apart by two dogs.
5. On a T.V show about animal cruility in China’s resturants, a cat getting boiled alive. That was messed up.
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You mean they eat cats too?!?!?!
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@ABWorsham:
2. An opossum exiting the a$$ of a dead horse.
Oh Fuq…
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@ABWorsham:
3. A kid on thanksgiving dinner day in Jr. Highschool throwing up on the school bus while the bus was on a long upward hill with a good many stops.
There’s no school on Thanksgiving.
YOU’RE BUSTED!
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Uggh, suddenly, the taste of puss on my lips pales to those smells I can only imagine…
I yield.
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@Young:
@ABWorsham:
3. A kid on thanksgiving dinner day in Jr. Highschool throwing up on the school bus while the bus was on a long upward hill with a good many stops.
There’s no school on Thanksgiving.
YOU’RE BUSTED!
PWNED!
Something about that story definetly did STINK… ;)
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@Young:
@ABWorsham:
There’s no school on Thanksgiving.
YOU’RE BUSTED!
Our school had a traditional Thanksgiving dinner the week before the holiday. Do you really think I would create a story? I’ll give you the name of the kid that vomitted, if you want.
If you require more details, there was a girl asleep on the floor when this happened. We were able to wake her up before the mass of vomit reached her head. lol Picture twenty kids standing on the bus seats screaming, a few of us taking advantage of the situation to really act a fool. An eighty year old bus driver screaming at all of us. -
I’ll give you the name of the kid that vomitted, if you wan
LOL Yes,
I definetly require this information!
This event and his name will live in infamy online forever!
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I’ll give you the name of the kid that vomitted, if you wan
LOL Yes,
I definetly require this information!
This event and his name will live in infamy online forever!
Thomas Swinney, he was a fat dumb a$$. I was actally sitting with him. He told me, “man, I’m not feeling good.” Then came the recycled turkey and dressing. I jumped over the seat. This kid ate like a cow. It was bad.
Nothing like school bus drama.
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Can you give more info about the possum in the horse’s butt? Did you see this in person or on the internet? There is some weeeeeird porn out there
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@Vance:
Can you give more info about the possum in the horse’s butt? Did you see this in person or on the internet? There is some weeeeeird porn out there
I live out in rural East Texas. One day I was in my work truck and saw a brown streak on the road. So I followed the trail. The streak was the skin marks of a dead horse that a old man tied to his tractor and drug to river bottom. I got to this dead horse and then noticed movement. This possum had crawled into this horse to feed from the inside out. It was covered in blood and fluid, it was horrible. A bloody giant rat!
I told that story to others around my home town, they told me its pretty common.
A couple days later, took a co-worker to visit the site, there were so many vultures feeding on this horse that the dead body was moving. Atleast 5 vultures were inside this horse, it stunk bad.
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@ABWorsham:
I told that story to others around my home town, they told me its pretty common.
What the hell is wrong with you people!!!
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@Vance:
@ABWorsham:
I told that story to others around my home town, they told me its pretty common.
What the hell is wrong with you people!!!
Farmers, ranchers and hunters, you are going to run across dead animals.
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ALMOST as nasty as when one of the guys came to work an entered the first aid office…
“Hey I just got back from Amersterdam, and there is some kind of boil that’s moving/bubbling on my inner leg, and now I’m seeing signs of it directly across and on my other leg, can you look at it?”That’s nasty.
Have any of you seen women with facial hair? It causes me to get sick. Do they care how they look?
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@Vance:
@ABWorsham:
I told that story to others around my home town, they told me its pretty common.
What the hell is wrong with you people!!!
Pretty common may have been wrong phrase, I know three others guys that have witnessed possiums exiting dead horses and cows.
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A couple days later, took a co-worker to visit the site, there were so many vultures feeding on this horse that the dead body was moving. Atleast 5 vultures were inside this horse, it stunk bad.
Apparently visiting rotting horse corpses qualifies as “site seeing” in Texas.
LOL
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Nice Worsham. Now I remember why I do not leave the lush fields that are England.
I am not sure my vegetarian sensibilities could take a Texan summer.
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