[b]New York ‘lone wolf’ was one hour away from finishing his bomb[/b]
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.
Placing existing fighters on new bought aircraft carrier ?
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Page 25 of the rulebook says that you may not place newly purchased fighters directly on aircraft carriers. But can you place existing fighters located at an industrial complex on a newly bought aircraft carrier (like in other A&A games) ?
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@cojoh I’m not sure what you are referencing but page 23 of Europe and 22 of the Pacific book state the following:
“You can place fighters and tactical bombers into territories
containing an industrial complex controlled by your power
from the start of your turn, or on an aircraft carrier owned
by your power in a sea zone (even a hostile one) adjacent
to a territory with such an industrial complex. The aircraft
carrier can be either a new one currently being mobilized,
or an existing one already in place. You can’t place a new
fighter or tactical bomber on a carrier owned by a friendly
power.”The only restriction is that new air can’t be placed on an allied carrier.
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I just realized this might be a reference to an older version of pacific. I’m referencing the most recent 1940 version.
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@farmboy indeed
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@cojoh said in Placing existing fighters on new bought aircraft carrier ?:
Page 25 of the rulebook says that you may not place newly purchased fighters directly on aircraft carriers. But can you place existing fighters located at an industrial complex on a newly bought aircraft carrier (like in other A&A games) ?
You may not.
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@krieghund ok, Tks