“Curious” man indicted for terrorism
Jose Pimentel has been indicted in New York City after he was arrested while building a bomb in a state-level terrorism case. According to Associated Press, his lawyer says that the police were “overreaching” in the pursuit of Pimental who was just a “curious” young man when police arrested him while he was pre-occupied with assembling his little bomb thingie.
The Dominican Republic-born al-Qaida sympathizer and Muslim convert was busy assembling his homemade bomb when he was arrested, authorities said. He later told police that he believed Islamic law obligates all Muslims to wage war against Americans to retaliate for U.S. military action in the Middle East, police said. He also wanted to undermine support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the indictment.
Also known as Muhammad Yusuf, Pimentel maintained a website detailing his belief in jihad, or holy war, and told the informant he wanted to attack targets that included police cars and stations, post offices and soldiers returning home from abroad, authorities said.
Yeah, he sounds completely innocent to me. Those meany police should be focusing on veterans who’ve never raised their hand to this country instead of some poor immigrant who builds bombs and propagates hate literature. I’d understand it if the lawyers said that he was nutty or retarded, but to claim that assembling a bomb and running hate sites on the internet isn’t terrorism is kind of failing to properly defend their client.
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Totally on point John. That NYPD is out of control – freakin Gestapo.
Actually i am kind of insulted i haven’t been searched by NYPD/PAPD lately in the subway, i must be looking soft lately – got to lay off the candy.
I do not support a great deal of what the NYPD has been doing in regards to their anti-terror program (such as sending detectives to Arizona or New Jersey without contacting local authorities), but that does not mean the entire bunch of them are bad.
This guy should be fun to prosecute, especially with the anti-terror laws present in New York. Those state laws make the federal ones look like Boy Scout summer camp rules.
“Failing to properly defend their client”. That’s so his next set of lawyers can appeal his conviction, because of ineffective counsel.
#2 “Ido not support a great deal of what the NYPD has been doing in regards to their anti-terror program (such as sending detectives to Arizona or New Jersey without contacting local authorities),..”
I’m from New Jersey and I have less a problem with surviellance or antiterror laws but how the city functions as though it’s a separate nation. Arbitrarily deciding what laws it will/won’t enforce, like it’s illegal sanctuary policy or how it attempts to stifle private gunownership. Trampling over locals outside of its jurisdiction or as the FBI referred to it own foreign policy in regards to terror coordination. This is just the lastest.