the Portland car bomb plot of 2010 was involved in the incident where Mohamed Osman Mohamud (born 1991), a Somali-American student, was arrested in an FBI attack operation on November 26, 2010, after trying to ignite what he thought was a car bomb on Christmas tree lighting in Portland, Oregon. He was accused of trying to use weapons of mass destruction. A lawyer for Mohamud argues that his client is trapped. On January 31, 2013, a jury found Mohamud guilty of a single indictment against him. He is scheduled to be sentenced on December 18, 2013, but the sentence was canceled in anticipation of a new motion by the defense. In September 2014, Mohamud was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison with credit for the time served, as well as lifetime surveillance at the time of discharge in 2040.
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Background and incident
Mohamud was born in Somalia, came to America as a refugee, and grew up in Beaverton, Oregon, a suburb of metropolitan Portland. He is a naturalized US citizen. Mohamud graduated from Westview High School in Beaverton. He studied at Oregon State University, but left on October 6, 2010, without ever announcing major. At the time of the incident, he was a resident of Corvallis, Oregon.
Under the name of Ibnul Mubarak's pen, Mohamud has written articles on physical fitness for the English-language Jihad Recollections publication as part of his earlier attempt to be associated with the violent ideology of jihad . He maintains contact with former American students living in Pakistan.
Mohamud has been monitored by the FBI for months. He was reportedly interested in the FBI's interests after agents intercepted e-mails he exchanged with a man who had returned to the Middle East, and described by law enforcement officials as "recruiters for terrorism." The man previously lived in Oregon, where Mohamud reportedly met him, before moving first to Yemen and then to Pakistan.
A year before his arrest, he was accused but not accused of dating a drunk woman on the campus of Oregon State University.
Prior to Mohamud's arrest, an undercover FBI agent, disguised as a terrorist, had been in contact with him since June 2010. The FBI put him on a no-fly list, preventing him from traveling to Kodiak, Alaska from Portland International Airport on June 10, 2010. Prosecutors say he actually interviewed by the FBI, which he says he wants to earn money on fishing and then travels to join "brothers," and that he previously hoped to travel to Yemen but has yet to get a ticket or a Visa.
In preparation for the planned bombing of a public meeting, Mohamud and an undercover FBI member went to a remote area in Lincoln County, Oregon, where they tested Nov. 4 by exploding a real bomb believed to have been hidden inside a Mohamud backpack..
The main bombing took place at Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square on the corner of Southwest Yamhill Street and Sixth Avenue, as tens of thousands of people gathered for the city's annual Christmas tree lighting. The fake bomb was in a white van carrying six 55 gallon drums with what looked like real detonation cords and plastic caps. Mohamud tried to detonate the bomb by turning a cell phone attached to it. When the device fails to explode, the undercover agent advises him to get out of the car to get better reception. When he did, he was arrested. Because the FBI ensures that the device has no explosive components - even the explosive cap is inert - the public is never in danger. According to a written statement, Mohamud told agents, "I want anyone who attends the event to leave, to die or be injured."
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Analysis
Initial analysis questioned whether a trap by an FBI operation was involved, an Oregonian columnist asked how far Mohamud had traveled on the road without the help of those who were very operative? Noting "astonishing resemblance" with a simultaneous case near Baltimore, Maryland, The Oregonian quoted a New York University expert as saying that such a case was "the FBI's strategy set last year." Presumably aware of the defense of the law based on trap problems, FBI agents reportedly offered several alternatives to Mohamud for bombing with mass casualties, including prayer. Mohamud reportedly insisted he wanted to play an "operational" role, and even wanted to pick targets for the bombing. He has also been told several times that his planned bomb kills women and children, and is given many opportunities to withdraw, but he tells the agents: "Since I was 15 I thought of all this... It will be a flower show fire... spectacular show. "Christopher Dickey of Newsweek said the FBI" did not take risks with the court of public opinion "to ensure that Mohamud did not appear to be a trap victim. Noting that the key to the alleged July 30 may have been lost, the court ordered the FBI to keep the rest of the media and recording equipment. Taking into account past behavior by the FBI in similar cases, New York lawyer Martin Stolar insists the absence of such tapes is deliberate. "Once someone is induced, and they agree to commit a crime, that's when the recording begins.... He's been induced to commit a crime, so everything on the tape is nonsense."
The Washington Post features tracing the ideological radical roots held by Somali youths like Mohamud to Islamization of Somalia after the collapse of the socialist government of Mohamed Siad Barre.
Somali Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Omar said: "Mohamud's effort is not a representative or example of Somalia, Somalia is a peaceful person," adding that the Somali government is "ready and willing" to help in preventing future efforts.
Trial
Mohamud was charged with a single count trying to use weapons of mass destruction. The trial begins on January 10, 2013 and ends on January 31 with the jury finding him guilty. He faces a life sentence of prison and was originally scheduled to be sentenced on 27 June 2013. However, in a movement filed on June 17, federal prosecutors demanded that sentences be delayed two to three months because the government needed more time to prepare punish recommendation. Verdict Mohamud was then rescheduled for December 18, 2013, then canceled to anticipate the defense movement. In October 2014, Mohamud was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison along with credit for the time served since his arrest, as well as lifelong surveillance of the release schedule in 2037. He was detained at the Federal Penitentiary, Victorville, a federal media-prison in San Bernardino County, California.
Mosque burning
The Salman Al-Farisi Islamic Center in Corvallis, Oregon, where Mohamud occasionally attended the service, was burned on November 28, 2010. Police determined that arson was the cause and investigated it as a possible racial crime. In response, the Council on American-Islamic Relations called on authorities to increase their presence in the Muslim community in Oregon.
On August 24, 2011, federal agents arrested Cody Seth Crawford, 24, for federal hate crimes charges in what they claimed were racially motivated arsons at the mosque. A federal judge ordered that Crawford be detained as a danger to society because of his previous arrest history. Crawford's court-appointed lawyer stated that he suffered from alcohol and mental illness. Crawford was convicted on federal charges of damaging religious property and sentenced to a 5-year probation.
See also
References
External links
- arrest warrant and FBI statement
- FBI Arrest Warrant, Criminal Complaint, and Certificate
- Oregon Residents Arrested in Plot to Bomb Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Portland via US Department of Justice
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