Pa. Man Accused of Trying to Sell Bomb (Thought undecover FBI Agent was Al-Qaida!)

Yahoooooooooo via AP ^ | 5/23/05

[Incorrigible]

Hey WideAWake!

What was the bump about on the other thread?

[theDentist]

Should be beaten to death....

[Irontank]

This guy must have something wrong with him...a bomb?

Did it ever occur to him that Al Qaeda probably knows how to build their own bombs?

[LouD]

If convicted, he could receive a sentence of up to 15 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

Not nearly enough. Obviously, criminal penalties for aiding and abetting terrorists need to catch up with reality.

[BenLurkin]

[wideawake]

Just mentioning that this f**k lives right over the Jersey border, just a few miles south of E. Stroudsburg, PA.

[JimSEA]

There are a number of things that would have been serious crimes when I was a kid that are either less serious or legal now.

He has been charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, specifically al-Qaida, a news release from Shelby's office said.

This would have been treason. Of course, "threatening the violent overthrow of the United States" is also now commonplace and apparently largely legal (some question of immediacy).

[eastforker]

Actualy he lived in florida also and is married to Monique Lopez Grecula, 36 years old.

[areafiftyone]

Wonder how much he was selling it for? He's gotta be a complete idiot.

[SpinnerWebb]

Should be beaten to death....

Oh, he will be... he will be... in prison.

[The_Reader_David]

But he's not guilty of aiding the enemy, only of offering to aid the enemy.

Sentences for conspiracies and offers to commit crimes are properly more lenient than for the actual commission of an overt criminal act (since offers may be repented of, and conspiracies undone before they come to fruition).

15 years in the slammer, and coming out as a decrepit, impoverished old man, is plenty, should it be proved that he was indeed guilty, and not the victim of entrapment by overzealous agents of the government.

[Dog Gone]

I think it's pretty cool that the FBI has agents in Houston that appear to be al-Qaida operatives.

Good job, FBI!

[alloysteel]

Wasn't this something of the opening plot in "Back to the Future", where "Doc" Elliot Brown is trying to pass off some pinball machine parts as essential parts of a trigger for an atomic bomb, and had taken some plutonium so he could power the DeLorean time machine. As I understand the story, the Libyan nationalists were pretty troubled that they had been taken advantage of, and came after Doc and Marty McFly.

What an eerily realistic and highly prescient scene that was. This guy was just trying to get some cash together to conduct his time machine experiments.

[GoLightly]

Malta sent the kids back to their mother. Legally, it's not "kidnapping" when it's done by a noncustodial parent. It's interference with a custodial order & is essentially treated as a civil matter, rather than a criminal one.

[GoLightly]

From the looks of it, he caught his ex-wife having an affair (that's where the wiretap charge comes in) & lost temporary custody of his kids to her. An affair is seen as less of a "bad act", than the privacy violation caused by tapping his own phone line & recording other people's phone conversations.

Fearing that the temporary order would be made permanent, he took off for Malta with his kids. Malta recognized the PA custody order & sent the kids back to their "cheating" French born mother.

I'm sure this latest charge is the result of him feeling that he was abused by the government & he was looking for some payback.

[GoLightly]

Don't make any assumptions on that. The phone tap is a classic tactic advocated by some militant father's rights groups. They are very anti-feminist & anti-family court. Check out the "A-Team". (I think they're still around).

[GoLightly]

Don't make any assumptions on that. The phone tap is a classic tactic advocated by some militant father's rights groups. They are very anti-feminist & anti-family court. Check out the "A-Team". (I think they're still around).

[PureTrouble]

He will never live through the 15 year sentence.

[The_Reader_David]

Most likely not, but there have been examples of aged criminals in their 80's being released from prison.

[Syntyr]

Seriously these wackos like to play with explosives... Put him in a 2x2x6 cell so he can't lay down, and put a grenade in each hand, pull the pins, close the door and wait.