{"id":3470,"date":"2010-11-27T02:25:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T10:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2010-11-27T02:25:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T10:25:26","slug":"a-terrorist-attack-seven-blocks-from-my-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/27\/a-terrorist-attack-seven-blocks-from-my-door\/","title":{"rendered":"A Terrorist Attack Seven Blocks From My Door"},"content":{"rendered":"

As much as I\u2019d love to relate a tale of my danger, excitement, and bravado, I had no idea it had happened until late last night, and I was never in any danger, because the Feds disarmed the terrorist long before he launched his attack.  Still, it is chilling to think that he tried to set off a bomb in a spot were I walk at least weekly.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"27pioneer\"The FBI thwarted an attempted terrorist bombing in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square before the city’s annual tree-lighting Friday night<\/strong>, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oregon. <\/p>\n

A Corvallis man, thinking he was going to ignite a bomb, drove a van to the corner of the square at Southwest Yamhill Street and Sixth Avenue and attempted to detonate it<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

However, the supposed explosive was a dummy that FBI operatives supplied to him<\/strong>, according to an affidavit in support of a criminal complaint signed Friday night by U.S. Magistrate Judge John V. Acosta. <\/p>\n

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, a Somali-born U.S. citizen, was arrested at 5:42 p.m., 18 minutes before the tree lighting was to occur, on an accusation of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine. <\/p>\n

The arrest was the culmination of a long-term undercover operation, during which Mohamud had been monitored for months as his alleged bomb plot developed. <\/p>\n

"The device was in fact inert<\/strong>, and the public was never in danger," according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. <\/p>\n

The investigation involved the FBI, Oregon State Police, Portland Police Bureau, Corvallis Police Department and Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office. <\/p>\n

Mohamud will appear in U.S. District Court in Portland on Monday\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <The Oregonian<\/a>><\/p>\n

Kudos to the FBI, who handled this incident that way we should be defeating terrorism in America, through law enforcement.  Nobody was even groped in the process.  I\u2019m sure we will hear Republicans trying to spin this success as a failure, but I thank God that Republicans are no longer in charge of National Security.  Had they been, it\u2019s far more likely at the beautiful center of my city and the lives of hundreds of my neighbors would have been shattered.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As much as I\u2019d love to relate a tale of my danger, excitement, and bravado, I had no idea it had happened until late last night, and I was never in any danger, because the Feds disarmed the terrorist long before he launched his attack.  Still, it is chilling to think that he tried to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}