The FBI thwarted an attempted terrorist bombing in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square before the city’s annual [Christmas] tree-lighting Friday night, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oregon.
A Corvallis man, thinking he was going to ignite a bomb, drove a van to the corner of the square at Southwest Yamhill Street and Sixth Avenue and attempted to detonate it.
However, the supposed explosive was a dummy that FBI operatives supplied to him, according to an affidavit in support of a criminal complaint signed Friday night by U.S. Magistrate Judge John V. Acosta.
Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, a Somali-born U.S. citizen, was arrested at 5:42 p.m., 18 minutes before the tree lighting was to occur, on an accusation of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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Look, this is just a, uh, cultural difference. Now move along and shut up.
And Big Sis is in the process of moving nakie-scanners and nasty TSA workers to Americans’ living room Christmas tree lightings and fireplaces to full grope-scan every 10th family member and Santa.