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.
Design a new flag for UK and Scotland.
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Scotland may soon become its own independent country. I am of Scottish descent and I would like to ask the axis & allies community to help me design the new flag for the Scottish people and for the UK:
here are some ideas:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25222891?ocid=socialflow_facebook_bbcnews -
here’s my suggestion for Scotland
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What’s wrong with Saint Andrew’s cross?
GG
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…and for great Britain.
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I think the new Flag should represent what Scottland stands for and this means that the Union Jack sign should be smaller.
Something like Blue for the Sky, Green for the Country and People and White for it´s Freedom or something like that.
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I guarantee they’ll use the Saltaire.
The Union flag will probably still be used by the remaining UK, since Scotland still wants to be tied the Queen’s apron strings.
Remember that is is essentially the flag of the crown, and so unless Scotland became a Republic there’s no need for new flags.
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braveheart
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Sworn partisan of John Baliol and bitter enemy of Robert Le Bruce.
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Should be Fergie and Sean Connery kicking back enjoying some cocktails and crashing an Andy Murray press conference.
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Should be Fergie and Sean Connery kicking back enjoying some cocktails and crashing an Andy Murray press conference.
I’m always cracked up by the scene in The Longest Day in which Sean Connery makes the following comment about Lord Lovat’s Scottish-Canadian bagpiper: “It takes an Irishman to play the pipes!” I wonder how much they had to pay him to deliver that line.
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The referendum is coming up and I saw the Rock again last weekend, so it’s a good time to bump this.
“Your best? Losers always whine about their best, winners go home and **** the prom queen.”
That should be plastered all over the airwaves right before voting day.
In the interim the remaining UK members should fly their own flags until a decent compromise can be made, there’s some pretty funky stuff here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/03/will-this-be-the-uks-new-flag/284234/
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Won’t be happy until we’re a Republic outside the EU.
http://party9999999.deviantart.com/art/British-Republican-Flag-202774203
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/gb}rep.html
http://englishrepublican.blogspot.co.uk/
Not that I’m a lefty, you understand…
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Well Scotland was the left tilting part of the island, wouldn’t separation strengthen the Tories in England?
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I consider all 3 old parties to be the same; they are all essentially under the thumb of a centre-left European commission.
Two more flag possibles;
simply drop the Scottish blue;
or add black and yellow for the St David’s flag.
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