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“The Ideas Behind the Alleged Bomber”

IPT News
November 21, 2011

SNIPPET: “Often it’s the paper trail that brings down a would-be terrorist.

Accused lone-wolf jihadist Jose Pimentel was arrested as he assembled a pipe bomb in his home. But he leaves an extensive collection of writings and online postings which show his devotion to waging jihad in America.”

SNIPPET: “News reports indicate that the FBI declined to pursue Pimentel because agents considered him “mentally unstable” and not a serious threat. But Pimentel’s blog, monitored by law enforcement officials for the past year, shows sophisticated reasoning and articulate expression of why he wanted to kill Americans. It is rare that terrorists leave behind such a clear trail of their radicalization process, with detailed identification of the influences that motivated their actions.

The case shows that, although the release of English-language jihadi materials has taken a hit since the September killing of al-Qaida ideologue Anwar al-Awlaki, the videos and writings he left behind still inspire terrorist plots.”

SNIPPET: “As if foreshadowing his own plot and subsequent demise, Pimentel also set up his website as a guide to everything a future would-be extremist would need. He stopped posting on the blog months before building his own bombs, leaving a huge volume of documents and his own posts as a legacy.”

SNIPPET: “”He made some of his even like-minded friends nervous,” said New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He noted that the plot was the 14th directed at New York City since 9/11.”