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BREAKING NEWS:
Md. man arrested in plot to bomb Catonsville recruitment center
By Ben Nuckols as Reported in The Washington Times: A 21-year-old construction worker who recently converted to Islam and told an FBI informant he thought about nothing but jihad was arrested Wednesday when he tried to detonate what he thought was a bomb at a military recruitment center in suburban Baltimore, authorities said.
Antonio Martinez, also known as Muhammad Hussain, faces charges of attempted murder of federal officers and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, according to court documents filed Wednesday. The bomb he is accused of trying to detonate was fake and had been provided by an undercover FBI agent. . . .
Mr. Martinez appeared in court Wednesday afternoon and was ordered held until a hearing Monday. According to court documents, he has been on the FBI's radar screen since October, when he told a confidential FBI source he wanted to attack and kill military personnel. . . . [Full Story]
THANK YOU to the FBI for stopping this individual. Fortunately, it was the FBI and not the DHS that was in charge of this operation.
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Another Islamic terrorist plot on American soil foiled. And, they expect us to believe that Muslims aren't violent?
On the good side, this tactic seems to work well for the intelligence services. However, the caught terrorists are just small fish, and the cost of running these programs is high.
Unlike the KKK, for example, muslims aren't a single, relatively small group of people that can be targeted and broken with counter-intelligence operations - J. Edgar Hoover style.
While sowing distrust amongst them is welcome, as long as there are muslims in America, there will be islam, and therefore potential terrorists.
Until the American establishment start seeing islam itself as the problem, not an imaginary sect of 'radical islam' that can be targeted separately, I'm afraid the tide of domestic terrorism will continue to grow.
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