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Feds say they disrupted suicide bomb plot against Wichita airport
NBC News ^ | December 13, 2013 | Pete Williams

Posted on 12/13/2013 11:29:03 AM PST by Zakeet

Federal officials say they've arrested a Kansas man who allegedly wanted to set off a suicide bomb at the Wichita airport.

Officials were to announce details of the case at a news conference at 2 p.m. ET in Wichita.

In advance of the news conference, an official familiar with the case told NBC News that the suspect was "an older white man," who became radicalized after reading extremist Islamic material on the web.

(Excerpt) Read more at investigations.nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: airport; airportthreat; alqaeda; alqaida; aq; bombing; bombplot; islam; jihad; kansas; loewen; rop; stingoperation; terrorism; terrorist; terrorthreat; terryleeloewen; terryloewen; waronterror; wichita; wot
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To: arderkrag
Ya know...I was gonna ask who was going to be silly enough to say this was all engineered, but after reading the posts, I’ve lost a little more faith in rationality.

Reality check...

>>>Investigators tell NBC News that Loewen has been under scrutiny since August, when he began having an online exchange with someone he thought was a like-minded individual but who turned out to be an FBI employee.<<<

61 posted on 12/13/2013 1:29:43 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

I posted the criminal complaint. He was coaxed and coached up to a point, then he took off on his own. He purchased several “bomb components” on his own, after FBI told him what to get, but he did the actual wiring of phony detonators himself.

He basically said, I need to do jihad, and someone was right there saying, I can help with that!


62 posted on 12/13/2013 1:34:45 PM PST by DBrow
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To: F15Eagle

Wichita’s changed. There are a bevy of plausible, if not great, restaurants and a few areas that are fairly hopping until the bars and restaurants close 11-ish.


63 posted on 12/13/2013 2:10:28 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The are plenty of white males who are Muslims.


64 posted on 12/13/2013 2:16:39 PM PST by kabar
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To: dragnet2
So, obviously it's all part of a conspiracy!

/sarc
65 posted on 12/13/2013 2:52:29 PM PST by arderkrag (An Unreconstructed Georgian, STANDING WITH RAND.)
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To: SandRat

> Even worse a Boy Scout Adult Leader.

Well the BSA was dead as soon as they they started gayifying it. Surpised the pink uniforms haven’t been issued yet. Of course we all know it wan’t ecause tere were any gay boy scouts that wanted to join but oukdn’t. It was done to dismanle an organization that teaches boys to be morally upright, independent, strong, and masculine; something the gaywads that want to emasculate men simply coludn’t have. If unchecked they might *gasp* raise up their own sons to be straight and not end over obediently. Think that’s not the case? Notice how the NFL has veen attacked by them lately for being too masculine / brutal?


66 posted on 12/13/2013 3:00:34 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

> Even worse a Boy Scout Adult Leader.

Well the BSA was dead as soon as they they started gayifying it. Surprised the pink uniforms haven’t been issued yet. Of course we all know it wasn’t because there were any gay boy scouts that wanted to join but couldn’t. It was done to dismantle an organization that teaches boys to be morally upright, independent, strong, and masculine; something the gaywads that want to emasculate men simply coulddn’t have. If unchecked they might *gasp* raise up their own sons to be straight and not bend over obediently. Think that’s not the case? Notice how the NFL has been attacked by them lately for being too masculine / brutal?


67 posted on 12/13/2013 3:02:41 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Zakeet

Wichita? Kansas?


68 posted on 12/13/2013 3:06:06 PM PST by fivecatsandadog (Fivecatsandadog is really 3catsnodog)
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To: F15Eagle

Used to go to that restaurant when I traveled there. Great chicken fried steak.


69 posted on 12/13/2013 3:06:58 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: BenLurkin

Nah, the 1993 WTC was Bin Laden’s first crack at the WTC. Remember the ‘rab dumbass who tried to get his deposit back from the rental co. for the van that they destroyed?


70 posted on 12/13/2013 4:57:29 PM PST by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Arm_Bears

Home of last year’s Final Four team (and currently 8th ranked) Wichita State Shockers. You Don’t Want to Go To War With The Shockers. The Tennessee Volunteers will find that out tommorow at Wichita State. Woo Hoo! Oh yeah, and Home of BTK!


71 posted on 12/13/2013 5:22:35 PM PST by Old Yeller
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To: Zakeet
Those zany corn and wheat farmers and ranchers...always blowing themselves up! Next we'll read about them lighting cow farts and increasing global warming
72 posted on 12/13/2013 6:36:41 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (“Some animals are more equal than others" - George Orwell)
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To: arderkrag

Well if ya throw out a piece of raw meat ya better expect flies to land on it.

Sorry to disappoint you.

Feel free to dream this lumberhead was some international terrorist master mind, instead of just another mental case.


73 posted on 12/13/2013 7:30:20 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: DBrow

[ Feds “met with the plotter frequently”. Bet they also provided fake explosives and the vest, possibly a ride to the airport.

I had a spreadsheet once that listed all the “terrorist” arrests I could find, and most were the ones where the feds provided materials and support, then busted them. Few real plots uncovered.

I’m glad this guy is off the street, but I find this tactic questionable. ]

Yeah, seems like they practically have to have the dumb terrorists fall into their laps....

It is almost like they scope out a mosques or internet message boards for some angry islamic inbred moron with a big mouth they then condition and provide materials for so they can get a PR coup every so often to justify their budget...

Meanwhile they snoop on the citizens because it is easier than actually going out and doing real gumshoe-ing...


74 posted on 12/13/2013 7:44:46 PM PST by GraceG
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To: Moonman62

He’s from the Islamic wing of the Tea Party.

Because nothing says limited government like an all controlling theocracy....

/sarcastic


75 posted on 12/13/2013 7:48:31 PM PST by GraceG
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To: Zakeet

Looks like

OH MY GIDDY AUNT!!!!

76 posted on 12/13/2013 7:49:55 PM PST by GraceG
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To: Buckeye McFrog

looks more like Fred Flintstone to me

The cult he decided to follow is in the same time frame as the Flintstones....


77 posted on 12/13/2013 7:50:40 PM PST by GraceG
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To: dragnet2

Oh he was a mental case, but it still isn’t part of a conspiracy thought up by our government. That’s what I was mocking, and will continue to mock it. ENDLESSLY. Everything is apparently part of some vicious plot by the idiot in chief and his window licking cronies. Never mind the reality that they couldn’t plan their way out of a paper bag...


78 posted on 12/13/2013 8:12:43 PM PST by arderkrag (An Unreconstructed Georgian, STANDING WITH RAND.)
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To: arderkrag

They found a nutbar on the Internet...They probably offered him a couple whole chickens and 79 virgins or whatever if he promised to play muzzie and be stupid.

No big deal..The wackjobs are easy targets and give the impression they’re doing a great job...All while our borders resemble a Boston marathon of millions coming across.

Gak...


79 posted on 12/13/2013 8:26:17 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
Thanks to you using the word "nutbar", I now cannot get the image of a snickers strapped with a string of black cats holding a snack bar hostage.

So, thanks?
80 posted on 12/13/2013 8:32:27 PM PST by arderkrag (An Unreconstructed Georgian, STANDING WITH RAND.)
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