Man Arrested and Charged in New York City Bomb Plot

Jose Pimentel a Muslim a convert to Islam, a terrorist, a bomb maker when is America going to wake up? Obama and his home security is endangering the USA with these terrorist.Lone Wolf  I don't think so! There is a whole network connected to him
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The New York Times
Sunday, November 20, 2011 -- 8:03 PM EST
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Man Arrested and Charged in New York City Bomb Plot

The authorities have arrested a man who law enforcement officials believe was planning to build and detonate a bomb in New York with government workers, returning military personnel and elected officials as the target, two people briefed on the case said on Sunday.

Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly of the New York Police Department announced the charges against the man at a Sunday evening news conference at City Hall.

The man was arrested within the last 24 hours.

The defendant in the case, identified as Jose Pimentel, 27, had bought bomb-making materials and “began to build them,” said one person briefed on the case, who added that the Police Department had had the man under surveillance for about a year.

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NYPD Ray Kelly on arrest of Islamic terror suspect Jose Pimentel

Posted by The Right Scoop on Nov 20, 2011 in Politics | 23 Comments

Bloomberg was describing this guy as a lone wolf, which to me meant that it was a case of domestic terror unrelated to Islam. However, that’s absolutely not the case. Jose Pimentel indeed was a convert to Islam and a follower of Al-Awlaki, whose website he used to learn how to make a bomb. He wanted to travel to Yemen for training before returning to New York to become a “martyr in the name of Jihad”. He also wanted to change his name to “Osama Hussein” because of his heroes, Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. And his target? Our military members returning from Afghanistan and Iraq and normal American citizens.
He was arrested yesterday and found to have already made three bombs:




Alleged 'Lone Wolf' Arrested in New York on Terror Charges

By RICHARD ESPOSITO and MARK SCHONE

Nov. 20, 2011

A Muslim convert arrested for allegedly making bombs in New York City was inspired by radical cleric Anwar Awlaki and was allegedly plotting to attack U.S. servicemen and police officers, according to officials.
A five-count criminal complaint against Jose Pimentel of Washington Heights says that Pimentel planned "to build a bomb and use a bomb to assassinate U.S. servicemen and women returning from active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg said during a press conference this evening that Pimentel, an unemployed loner who lives with his mother, also wanted to kill police officers, and called him a "27-year-old al Qaeda sympathizer."
"We had to act quickly," New York police commissioner Ray Kelly said, "because he was in fact putting this bomb together."
When arrested, officials say, Pimentel possessed the materials necessary to build a bomb.
He allegedly manufactured a bomb on his mother's couch following the directions in the article "How to Build a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom," from al Qaeda's English-language on-line magazine "Inspire." radical U.S.-born cleric Anwar Awlaki was a contributor to the magazine

"He was a reader of al Qaeda's online magazine 'Inspire' and inspire him it did," Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance said.
Officials say Pimentel is apparently a "lone wolf" with no known connection to any foreign terrorists or local radicalized individuals.
"He was not part of a larger conspiracy," Bloomberg said.
Kelly said Pimentel was inspired to act by the death of Awlaki, who was killed in a U.S. strike in Yemen earlier this year.
A duplicate of the bomb Pimentel was allegedly building was detonated by police on a police range and blew apart a car. Charges against Pimentel include criminal possession of a weapon and conspiracy in the fourth degree as a crime of terrorism.
An American citizen, Pimentel was born in the Dominican Republic and came to the United States at age eight. After converting to Islam, he went by the name Muhammed Yusef.
Pimentel spent much of his time on the Internet, according to sources, and maintained a radical website called TrueIslam1. The website contains a link to the bomb-making article in "Inspire."
Pimentel first came to the attention of authorities in May 2009, when he was living in Schenectady, N.Y. He returned to New York City in January 2010. Authorities say they have been tailing him for more than a year.
He has a prior arrest for criminal possession of stolen property.
Pimentel rarely left his home, authorities said, except to buy coffee and cigarettes -- one cigarette at a time, when he couldn't afford a pack -- and to smoke. His mother did not let him smoke in the apartment.
He also smoked marijuana and drank, according to authorities, and only attended Muslim religious services infrequently.