Posted on 05/01/2012 7:11:58 AM PDT by nuconvert
Five "self-proclaimed anarchists" have been arrested after a months-long sting operation, charged with plotting to blow up a bridge in the Cleveland area, the FBI announced today.
CBS News senior correspondent John Miller reports the group had been involved in a series of escalating plots that ended with their arrest last night by FBI agents.
The sting operation supplied the anarchists with what they thought were "explosives" and bomb-making materials.
At no time during the case was the public in danger, the FBI said.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Oh good! It’s nice to see they’re still investigating real crimes.
I don’t know how they find the time, what with the sting operations they have going on with those Amish farms!
The old joke stands true:
How do you tell the FBI informant at a KKK rally?
He’s the one with the dynamite.
Well, at least they didn't give them the real thing this time...
I find it statistically odd that he ONLY terrorist plots we hear about are sting operations of some sort.
According to the FBI they were not tied to any international terrorist groups. Were their names released?
Among the arrested were: Douglas l. Wright, 26, Brandon L. Baxter, 20, and Anthony Wayne, 35,
OW’s or TROPS?
Sounds like they were ultra left wingers and Big Media had no chance to spin them as conservatives.
Yeah, sounds like Occupy Wall Street/anarchist types.
Yeah, sounds like Occupy Wall Street/anarchist types.
I'm not sure it's that odd, seeing that most terrorist plots are "homegrown."
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the arrests were timed with May Day
Pretty much what I was thinking. Theres no diff between any of these so called federal LE agencies. When they need money or a boost in ratings something like this comes along. Frankly, we’d be safer w/o them.
I suspect soon we will see a BombWalker program over at the ATF, and a few successful detonations will occur.
Reichstag, anyone?
Shades of Emad Salem and WTC of 1992.
I’m a little rattled. The bridge they were to blow up is about 1 mile from my home. The city this bridge is in is Brecksville. Parts of Brecksville are very affluent (million dollar homes). Everyone else is middle class to upper middle. I just saw a photo of these five conspirators. They are all young and extremely unkept (your typical OWS crowd).
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the arrests were timed with May Day”
Didn’t the leftist freaks promise “peaceful” unrest today?
Is there a live thread?
Funny, I haven’t seen this on any of the MSM stations. Must not be real news.
I first saw it on MSNBC.
You’re probably perfectly safe as long as the FBI, TSA, and Secret Service stay out of it.
There's a bridge by that name over the Maumee River...Anthony Wayne Bridge - Ohio
Forgot the DEA. Government agencies here to help.
If we had a real threat from terror bombs, we’d see some go off now and then, we’d come across bomb factories, we’d see trafficking in precursor materials and electronics and detonators. We’d find caches of fertilizer and drums of nitric acid. We’d see failed attempts, in which the device did not go off, we’d discover planted devices and attempt to defuse them. That was the case in Northern Ireland, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places where terrorist bombs are an issue.
Instead, we ONLY see cases where the FBI has provided everything except the bang.
There are a very few real cases, the Christmas bomber, and numerous “revenge” type pipe bombs, and stupid kids 9and some crazy adults) who make pipe bombs in their bedrooms (do a news search on “pipe bomb. These are not truly terror bomb cases.
Now that ATF has declared flash powder to be a “high explosive” anyone caught with an M80 or quarter stick is guilty of possessing a “bomb” with HE, and it gets reported as such- I’m not counting those cases.
All young? Since when is 35 “young”?
Since I turned 50!!!!:)
Regardless, Two of them were 20, 1 was 23, another 26 years old. Only one of them was 35.
They named a recreation area on the Palisades Interstate Parkway after that last guy.
That’s a motley & scaring looking bunch
Were these men planning to blow up the bridge before the FBI agent got involved? Or did the FBI approached the men with the idea and the explosives-offer before they thought about it?
I just noted a big recreation area in Harriman NY with the same name. I looked it up, Anthony Wayne was a big revolutionary war general, on a par with George Washington. Lots of stuff in Ohio and New York named after him. Probably not this jackass though.
History - Anthony Wayne
Anthony Wayne was an important American military leader during and after the American Revolution.
Snip...He earned the nickname "Mad" Anthony Wayne because of his impulsive actions on the battlefield.
Snip...To ease their fears, the natives' British allies constructed Fort Miamis on the Maumee River. (bridge named after him...see above) During 1794, Wayne moved against the Indians, who were commanded by Blue Jacket. On August 20, 1794, the two forces met at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, so named because the Indians used trees knocked down by a tornado for cover.
They don’t say who was the leader. Here is the best source of info that I have found so far.
http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/cleveland-fbi-makes-national-security-arrests
-—Yeah, sounds like Occupy Wall Street/anarchist types.-—
Tea Party anarchists.
Me too.
What does your common sense say? Or do you need a news report to give your common sense a clue?
My common sense says that just because someone is older they are not necessarily the leader. Biden is older than Obama and yet Obama is in charge. BTW Please do not write to me again. I will not answer.
In our arguments about Santorum & McCain & Newt & Romney, we’d do well to remember this Other America & the hate they have for ALL of us.
What does your common sense say? Or do you need a news report to give your common sense a clue?
My common sense says that just because someone is older they are not necessarily the leader. Biden is older than Obama and yet Obama is in charge. BTW Please do not write to me again. I will not answer.
I love his recreation area in NY - its really beautiful. Mad Anthony Wayne! Maybe this dope was named after him after all.
More and more, I get the feeling that these reports are bogus. What better way could there be to let us know what a great job the government is doing for us.
Yet, for all the groups of "Five 'self-proclaimed anarchists'" looking to blow up a bridge once would think that some percentage of them would be sufficiently smart enough to avoid FBI detection to at least make an attempt on a bridge, or whatever. But none has so far as I know.
Consider Israel, with its probably just as smart security forces. There, the security guys foil some attackers but not all.
ML/NJ
They look more like Obama voters,bet they all expct free lunch and othet items.
CBS has done honest reporting 2 or 3 times in the last few months... it's odd - maybe a mistake, as you say.
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