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MIAMI -- A man's planned explosive attack on a South Florida Jewish center was thwarted by the FBI through an undercover operation involving a dummy bomb, authorities said Monday.
James Medina, 40, made his initial appearance in federal court Monday following his arrest last week in the alleged plot against the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center, which includes a synagogue, school and meeting halls. Medina is charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, which carries a potential life prison sentence.
CBS Miami reports Medina has had other run-ins with law enforcement. He reportedly was arrested in Coral Springs, accused of stalking by sending texts threatening gun and bomb violence against a family.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Marc Anton said the FBI learned in March that Medina - a Muslim convert who said in court he also goes by James Muhammad - planned to bomb the center by placing a device under a car or throwing it over a wall. An FBI undercover operative was used to provide Medina with a fake bomb.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-jewish-center-attack-plot-thwarted-feds-claims/?linkId=24080545
6chars
(3,967 posts)In major US cities, in UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, kind of wherever there is a sizable Jewish community. In EU, you have to go through a lot of security to go into a synagogue at all. Is this where the US is headed too?
Just out of curiosity, does this have nothing to do with Islam?
Behind the Aegis
(53,975 posts)Even if the worst does come to pass, there are those already lining up to make excuses for it and how it isn't "really" anti-Semitism, which isn't "really" discrimination/hatred of Jews. Until we are being carted off, few are even going to pay attention, including other Jews. It is what it is.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Especially in the way some of our fellow progressives address the situation.