BULLETIN — REPORT: FOUR MEN ARRESTED IN ALLEGED PLOT TO BOMB NEW YORK CITY SYNAGOGUES.
Nothing further right now, I’m off to bed. If someone can follow up.
WNBC-TV Several of the suspects are Muslims who allegedly talked about destroying two Jewish temples, one of them in the Bronx.
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FBI, NYPD Arrest 4 in Alleged Plot to Bomb NY Synagogues
Wed, May 20, 2009
EXCLUSIVE: Four New York City men were arrested Wednesday in connection with an alleged plot to blow up New York City synagogues and other city locations, WNBC's Jonathan Dienst has learned. Raids by the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorist Task Force in the Bronx captured the suspected ringleader and three followers in what law enforcement sources are calling a homegrown terrorist plot.
Investigators stress the suspects' meetings had been infiltrated early on and there was "no chance" the alleged plot could succeed. Investigators said several of the suspects are Muslims who allegedly talked about destroying two Jewish temples, including at least one in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. Prosecutors also said the men discussed tyring to shoot down military planes at Stewart Airport. The four suspects were identified as James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen.
The men ordered and accepted delivery of materials they believed were bomb-making ingredients, authorities said. But investigators said they made sure the materials the suspects received were inert. Officials tell WNBC they moved in now so the alleged plot could not progress any further.
The four men are in custody and are expected to be arraigned Thursday in White Plains federal court on terrorism-related counts. An official announcement of the arrests is expected later Wednesday or Thursday morning. The motives behind the alleged plot are not yet known, but authorities said that Cromitie was apparently upset over the war in Afghanistan.
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