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Pa. man accused in terror sting (Plotted US pipeline and refinery attacks)
Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 2/11/06 | Alfred Lubrano and John Shiffman

Posted on 02/11/2006 5:30:45 PM PST by jimbo123

Michael Curtis Reynolds says he's a patriot. Federal authorities say he's a terrorist.

The FBI believes that the unemployed Wilkes-Barre man tried to conspire with al-Qaeda to wreck the American economy. Agents say Reynolds plotted to blow up the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, a Pennsylvania pipeline, and a New Jersey refinery.

The sensational allegations, disclosed in a federal transcript obtained by The Inquirer on Friday, reveal a convoluted plot that includes cyberspace intrigue, an elaborate FBI sting, and a clandestine money-drop on a deserted Idaho road.

The case also involves a municipal judge from Montana who has devoted the last four years to snaring would-be terrorists online.

Reynolds, 47, has not been publicly charged with terrorism. But a federal prosecutor leveled that accusation during a December court hearing, saying that Reynolds attempted to "provide material aid to al-Qaeda" and that the case "involves a federal offense of terrorism."

"He was doing it as a plan to disrupt governmental function, to change the government's actions in foreign countries, and to impact on the national debate about the war," Assistant U.S. Attorney John C. Gurganus Jr. said at the hearing in Wilkes-Barre.

(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: alaska; alaskapipeline; alqaeda; enemywithin; idaho; jihad; jihadinamerica; michaelreynolds; moneydrop; montana; oil; pipeline; pipelineplot; pipelineplots; refineries; spying; terrorism; terrorists; terrorsting; transalaskapipeline; wilkesbarre
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To: Cboldt
Sorry, I didn't read the whole story, and shouldn't have spoken from an orifice other than my mouth. I was being somewhat facetious. However I would still be willing to bet that somewhere there are examples of a couple of these nutjobs conspiring with the terrorists. Either that, or they know that they have done so, and are trying preemptively to keep it a secret.
21 posted on 02/12/2006 8:17:52 AM PST by rikkir (My goal this year: Push a Moonbat over the edge by increasing our majorities!!)
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To: jimbo123
Wanna bet this Al Qaeda sympathizer is a DUmmy, Err America listener and voted for Gore/Kerry?

If it's the same guy, he may be a Lyndon Larouche nutjob, which would mean he's like Ted Kennedy, who also sucks up Lyndon LaRouche propaganda like he would suck up fine bourbon :

The posting includes links to an eclectic collection of Web sites, including Alyeska and U.S. Department of Energy sites and that of fringe presidential candidate and political radical Lyndon LaRouche. ------ "Web post urges jihadists to attack Alaska pipeline," By WESLEY LOY, Anchorage Daily News, 19-JAN-06

22 posted on 02/12/2006 3:51:10 PM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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He may have been attracted and snookered by the Lyndon LaRouche stuff through Hackworth or Kwiatkowski articles.


23 posted on 02/12/2006 3:53:44 PM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: jimbo123
Wanna bet we got this guy because of the foreign surveillance. Maybe they are netting them all right now before they go back into deep cover again.

Thank you NYT's

24 posted on 02/12/2006 3:55:38 PM PST by mware (The keeper of the I's once again.)
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To: samm1148
PA it figures.

Pennsylvania AND Indiana AND Connecticut AND California AND Arizona AND Massachusetts AND New York AND Idaho....

25 posted on 02/13/2006 7:46:24 AM PST by Born Conservative (Chronic Positivity: http://www.livejournal.com/users/jsher/)
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To: Born Conservative

AND Montana....Notice anything familiar about the woman who caught him? *COUGH* Ryan Anderson *COUGH*


26 posted on 02/13/2006 10:35:15 PM PST by Randy Rossmiller
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