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Man Who Hoped To Blow Up Tree-Lighting Ceremony Gets Sentenced
CBSNews ^ | October 01, 2014c

Posted on 10/01/2014 7:59:17 PM PDT by Steelfish

October 1, 2014 Man Who Hoped To Blow Up Tree-Lighting Ceremony Gets Sentenced

Mohamed Osman Mohamud was convicted of trying to blow up a van Portland tree lighting ceremony PORTLAND, Ore. - An Oregon man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for plotting to bomb a crowded Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Portland's town square four years ago.

Prosecutors had sought a 40-year term for Mohamed Mohamud, 23, in the plot that actually was an FBI sting.

Mohamud was arrested Nov. 26, 2010, after pressing a keypad button on a cellphone that he believed would trigger a massive truck bomb and kill people gathered for the annual event. But the bomb was a fake provided by undercover FBI agents posing as al Qaeda recruiters.

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1 posted on 10/01/2014 7:59:17 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Mohamed Osmu Mohamud: A “Double Mo.” Worse than XYY syndrome where any normal expression, especially religious expression, is involved.


2 posted on 10/01/2014 8:03:43 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Steelfish

And, while in the can, he’ll be recruiting those that will be getting out in 60 days.


3 posted on 10/01/2014 8:04:39 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Plea$e $upport Free Republic.)
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To: Steelfish

What kind of person hates Christmas Trees?


4 posted on 10/01/2014 8:05:12 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (In Soviet Russia, Police say "please" when demanding papers.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

There are triple Mos out there too...


5 posted on 10/01/2014 8:05:46 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: Steelfish

This man was trying to commit mass murder. Execute him.


6 posted on 10/01/2014 8:07:01 PM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: varyouga

That’s Big Mo.


7 posted on 10/01/2014 8:08:52 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Oztrich Boy

What kind of person hates Christmas Trees?


Rogue democrats... and other liberals...


8 posted on 10/01/2014 8:10:28 PM PDT by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: Steelfish

More workplace violence from the Religion of Peace?


9 posted on 10/01/2014 8:15:38 PM PDT by KOZ.
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It took FOUR YEARS?!

GeezLaweez.
I guess he didn't know that blowing up trees isn't damaging Christmas.

Blowing up the Nativity scene...that would be a horse of a different color.

LYNCHIN'. We'd have to have a lynchin'. First a whippin', then a lynchin'. (Blanche Devereaux, GOLDEN GIRLS).

10 posted on 10/01/2014 8:16:03 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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Strange?

With a name like that one might think he was a devotee of the Religion of Peace!


11 posted on 10/01/2014 8:17:32 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: Steelfish

Related thread about his pal Saba Ahmed moslem provocateur

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3168885/posts?page=1


12 posted on 10/01/2014 8:18:41 PM PDT by Ray76 (We must destroy the Uniparty or be destroyed by them.)
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‘MOM’ looks like a prison bitch even before doing time.


13 posted on 10/01/2014 8:28:08 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

That thar is a Christian terrorist name! Yup!


14 posted on 10/01/2014 11:03:21 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Steelfish

I was in Portland the day after and nobody had any idea what had almost happened.


15 posted on 10/01/2014 11:58:31 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Steelfish

Portland, Oregon??? They are his FRIENDS and supporters!!


16 posted on 10/02/2014 5:46:02 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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