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Title: FBI thwarts Oakland bank bombing
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SFGate
URL Source: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article ... ank-bombing-4263660.php#page-2
Published: Feb 8, 2013
Author: Jaxon Van Derbeken and Bob Egelko
Post Date: 2013-02-10 10:30:41 by Thunderbird
Keywords: FBI, Jihad
Views: 1863
Comments: 5
A mentally disturbed man who said he believed in violent jihad and hoped to start a civil war in the United States was arrested early Friday after trying to detonate what he thought was a car bomb at a Bank of America branch in Oakland, prosecutors said. Matthew Aaron Llaneza, 28, of San Jose was taken into custody near the bank at 303 Hegenberger Road at 12:30 a.m. after pressing a cell phone trigger device that was supposed to set off the explosives inside a sport utility vehicle and bring down the four-story building, said U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag's office. An undercover FBI agent posing as a go-between with the Taliban in Afghanistan had been meeting with Llaneza since Nov. 30 and accompanied him to the bank, according to an FBI declaration filed in federal court. The declaration said the FBI had built the purported bomb, which was inert and posed no threat to the public. Llaneza appeared before a federal magistrate in Oakland on Friday on a charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, which is punishable by life in prison. He is due to return to court for a bail hearing Wednesday. Assistant Federal Public Defender Joseph Matthews, who was assigned to represent him, declined to comment. Court records and lawyers in a 2011 criminal case against Llaneza in San Jose described him as delusional and suicidal. He told police in that case that he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. His attorney in the San Jose case said a judge had verified in two court hearings that Llaneza was getting mental health treatment. His arrest came a day after a New York man, Quazi Nafis, pleaded guilty to attempting to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb at the Federal Reserve Bank in Manhattan in October, in a case unrelated to Llaneza's. The FBI said an undercover agent had provided Nafis with 20, 50-pound bags of fake explosives. In Llaneza's case, the FBI declaration said he told the supposed Taliban representative in their Nov. 30 meeting that he wanted the bank bombing to be blamed on anti-U.S. government militias. He said he supported the Taliban and believed in violent jihad, the agent said, and hoped the bombing would prompt a government crackdown, a right-wing response and, ultimately, civil war. He chose the Bank of America branch because of its name and because Oakland has been a center of recent protests, the declaration said. It said Llaneza told the agent he would "dance with joy" when the bomb exploded. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/FBI-thwarts-Oakland-bank-bombing-4263660.php#ixzz2KVhnseVl
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#1. To: Thunderbird, *Yukon neo-Progressive Vermin* (#0)
That's the liberal neocon fairy tale version, from San Fagsicko. Eric Holder, Obama, BigSis, and the neocons wanted the Militia blamed for the US government plot and bomb. It's an FBI plot, and they're the terrorists. It won't be long before they declare you a terrorist, so enjoy kissing Obama's ass until then. FBI 'Stops' Yet Another Of Its Own Terrorist Threats Well, there they go again. We've talked a bunch about how the FBI has gotten really good at stopping its own terrorist plots and they've gone and done it again. Right here in the San Francisco Bay Area, the FBI has gleefully announced how they've stopped an attempt to bomb a Bank of America building in Oakland. The details are familiar: random guy with no actual connection to terrorists, and no actual way to build a connection with terrorists, is taken in by an FBI undercover agent who works with him to build a "bomb" that was never a bomb. In other words, there was no plot. There was no bomb. There was just a bunch of undercover agents playing dressup, and one Joe Schmo who thought it was all real. Maybe next time, the FBI can turn it into a reality TV show on Spike. Ralph Garmin as... a fake terrorist. I'd watch it. “America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”---Claire Wolfe She said that in the '90's, it might be time now?
I'm not convinced the suspect in this case was 'randomly' selected, and his recent incarceration on weapons charges meant he had plenty of exposure to all sorts of extremists including muslim jihadists. I'm also pretty sure there is enough evidence to lock this wannabe bomber away for the rest of his life. Good riddance.
You're still mad a Chris Hanson aren't you?
he wanted the bank bombing to be blamed on anti-U.S. government militias
Oakland ‘Bomb Plot’ Raises Questions of Entrapment
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#2. To: hondo68, Thunderbird, Yukon (#1)
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It's an FBI plot, and they're the terrorists. It won't be long before they declare you a terrorist, so enjoy kissing Obama's ass until then.
This all comes just a week after On the Media profiled a new book called Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War On Terrorism. That book appears to collect a bunch of these stories, talking about how this is a major effort in the FBI these days: making up fake terrorist plots in order to stop people they themselves convinced to take part in the "plots" and then generate big headlines around them: The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terror shows how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than 15,000 informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate phony terrorist plots so that the bureau can then claim victory in the war on terror.
Think of just how many resources are wasted in entrapping random people, rather than stopping real crime. I don't see how this makes us any safer at all. Frankly, it makes me a lot more terrified.
#3. To: Bill D Berger, *The Two Parties ARE the Same* (#2)
“America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”---Claire Wolfe
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#4. To: Bill D Berger (#2)
Think of just how many resources are wasted in entrapping random people, rather than stopping real crime.
#5. To: hondo68 (#1)
It's an FBI plot, and they're the terrorists.
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