A nineteen year old Somali living in Oregon in the United States, attempted to detonate a car bomb yesterday during the traditional lighting of the Christmas tree in Portland. The explosives were defused, however, were from the same FBI agents, who had long been under control and has set a trap. Now the boy, Mohamed Mohamud Osman, was arrested and charged with attempted use of weapons of mass destruction.
Mohamud is a naturalized American citizen who lives in Corvallis, a town about 400 miles from Portland. The FBI operation began last June when an undercover officer noticed a suspicious email traffic between Mohamud and an "unindicted associate" of Pakistan. According to the information the FBI two exchanged emails since 2009, and in December last year Mohamud would write the associated mail code, according to the FBI, preparing for his arrival in Pakistan to train in a " violent holy war. "
Mohamud have long sought to contact other members to arrange his trip to Pakistan, but without success. Then the FBI came into the scene, infiltrating an agent as an associate. Mohamud and the agent were met July 30 in Portland, and the two had discussed the "violent jihad". Mohamud would tell the agent to plan the attack at the ceremony of lighting the city Christmas tree in Pioneer Courthouse Square. The agent would try to dissuade him from the idea, explaining that there would be many children, but Mohamud said he would seek their support "a great mass of people will be attacked in their habits, while celebrating the holidays with his family." According to Oregon Live, Mohamud was not worried about the police present at the ceremony, because "the Oregon, Oregon, and nobody even Can you imagine. " Yesterday Mohamud
infiltration led to the place of the ceremony in a white van with several pounds of explosives, according to the FBI all statements aggregate. I got off the van, the two have met another agent brought them to the train station in Portland. Once there, officers are given Mohamud a cell phone that would have detonated the car bomb. When the boy made up the number to trigger it (obviously unsuccessfully) the two agents arrested him.
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