Florida Man Arrested in ISIS-Inspired Backpack Nail Bomb Plot, FBI Says

[jpak]

Source: NBC News

A Florida man has been charged with plotting to set off a backpack bomb at a beach, after becoming inspired by the terror group ISIS, federal officials said Tuesday.

Harlem Suarez, 23, of Key West — who also called himself Almlak Benitez — was arrested Monday after he received what he thought was a working bomb but which was actually a phony device provided by the FBI, the feds said.

Suarez is charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction against a person or property within the United States, federal prosecutors said.

Court documents say authorities were alerted by Facebook postings traced to Suarez that attempted to recruit people to join ISIS in committing violent acts.

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Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/florida-man-arrested-isis-inspired-backpack-nail-bomb-plot-fbi-n399901

[villager]

1. "Almlak Benitez?" Has this guy been reading Pynchon!?

[Maedhros]

2. Ah, another sting.

If it fits the pattern, it will be found that Suarez was:

1. Depressed or mentally unstable.
2. Financially stressed.
3. Manipulated into carrying out a "plot" entirely constructed by his FBI handlers.

Lather, rinse, repeat, eh FBI?

[Fred Sanders]

4. Another FBI sting of a a mentally unstable brown youth unbalanced by wall to wall American

Terror TV heavily promoting ISIS propaganda for over a year to date.

While the debate over the tens of thousands of domestic fair-skinned terrorists, neo-Nazi's, white supremists, etc., is........whether they exist or not??

Why was there no complex sting and arrest of Dylan Roof, and what about the terror groups Roof supported and belonged to?

[snooper2]

12. wanna-be ISIS gangster still took selfies LOL

[GoneFishin]

7. 4. Luckily the bomb was a fake supplied by the FBI "informant".

On edit - I see this actually is the case :

"... he thought was a working bomb but which was actually a phony device provided by the FBI, the feds said. "

[Rozlee]

3. And...Florida Man strikes again.

Why doesn't somebody do something about Florida Man?

[msanthrope]

5. because Pennsylvania man keeps us busy. nt

[Rozlee]

10. *

[saidsimplesimon]

6. The FBI has a checkered past. J. Edgar Hoover the devil

with all the details. Long ago, I decided entrapment was an evil conscript. Goes back to my college days in the 60's.

There was a time when the FBI recruited students to "rat" on anti-war supporters. It's difficult to forgive past injustice.

I'm willing to move past the past if federal law enforcement is willing to respect the rights of our Constitution.

PS: I had/have relatives who disagree with me. Israelis are now faced with the same conundrum.

[Ford_Prefect]

8. Rinse and Repeat, Rinse and Repeat. It worked many times before.

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I note we have not seen a similar sting of any of the Radical White Supremacist outfits or individuals, or their financial sponsors.

[snooper2]

13. oh, you want old white guys arrested? Four Senior Citizens Plotted Killing Spree At A Waffle House

Like this LOL

more losers behind bars


Four senior citizens walk into a Waffle House planning to go on a killing spree in order to "save the Constitution."

That's not the beginning of a joke, it's the scenario outlined by the FBI in a criminal complaint filed against four Georgia men yesterday who allegedly sought to use the online novel of a frequent Fox News guest named Mike Vanderboegh as a model for a terrorist plot against US government officials. The four men, Samuel Crump, Frederick Roberts, Ray Adams, and Dan Roberts, who named themselves "the covert group" (subtle!) allegedly fantasized about dispersing the toxic agent ricin over Washington DC and Atlanta, and hoped to ultimately obtain botulinium toxin, which Adams believed could kill millions of people in small doses.

"We need somebody to back us with some damn money so we can make that other shit," Crump said at a Waffle House in Toccoa, Georgia. according to the criminal complaint. Crump added that botulinium toxin was "worse than anthrax."

What was the ostensible purpose of all this killing? Saving the country of course. "There is no way for us, as militiamen, to save this country, to save Georgia, without doing something that’s highly, highly illegal: murder,” Thomas reportedly said. “When it comes time to saving the Constitution, that means some people have got to die.” The FBI also alleges that "Thomas, Roberts and others discussed the need to obtain unregistered silencers and explosive devices for use in attacks against federal government buildings and employees, as well as against local police."


http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/11/four-senior-citizens-plotted-killing-spree-waffle-house

[Ford_Prefect]

14. What I had in mind was the CEO and board members of the Club For Growth, for example.

Among many corporate sponsors of racist terror in America.

[snooper2]

15. If you get in you can expose the corruption

what are we talking finance wise?

$4500 ?

[TexasTowelie]

9. Florida man has been busy today.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141160492

[Sunlei]

11. its a sting, the fbi got the idiot to give them $100 and mailed a 'bomb' to him. instant bust

That probably cost the taxpayers millions.