Posted on 02/08/2013 4:19:55 PM PST by blam
FBI: Man Attempted To Bomb Bank, Trying To Set Off US Civil War
By Pete Williams, NBC News
February 8, 2013
The FBI, ending a sting, says it has arrested a California man after he tried to set off what he thought was a car bomb at a bank in Oakland.
Matthew Aaron Llaneza, 28, of San Jose, was arrested Friday morning, capping a months-long undercover investigation, the Justice Department said. Agents say he met last November with someone he thought was connected with the Taliban but who was actually an FBI agent.
Prosecutors say Llaneza proposed car-bombing a bank in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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"Llaneza's stated goal was to trigger a governmental crackdown, which he expected would trigger a right-wing counter-response against the government followed by, he hoped, civil war," the Justice Department says.
Court documents say Llaneza expressed a desire to commit violent jihad and talked about wanting to flee the U.S. after the bombing, but a federal official says his precise motive was unclear.
Court documents say he chose a Bank of America branch in Oakland as the target for the attack and offered to drive the car bomb to the bank. In January and February, they say, he and the undercover agent built the supposed bomb.
Investigators say Llaneza bought two cell phones to be used in detonating the device. Thursday night, they say, he drove an SUV containing the device and parked it under an overhang on the bank building, then walked a safe distance away and tried to set it off, when he was then arrested.
The device had earlier been rendered inoperable by the FBI.
He had his initial appearance in court this morning and will be back for a bail hearing next Wednesday in Oakland.
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Well what would YOU do if you found out the people who aren't half as smart as you are were right all along? ;o)
If said device did go off in oakland, would anyone even notice, heck he might get a key to city for municipal improvement.
Yes I made an oakland joke
If said device did go off in oakland, would anyone even notice, heck he might get a key to city for municipal improvement.
Yes I made an oakland joke
If said device did go off in oakland, would anyone even notice, heck he might get a key to city for municipal improvement.
Yes I made an oakland joke
Not funny Grace.
All he has to do is void/empty the EBT cards. Riots start within 16 hrs.
If it's from the FBI, it's gotta be a lie. (anonymous but famous poet).
Thanks blam.
A “Holy War” against banks??
Didn’t the Democraps do this when they criminalized ‘red-lining’ and started the housing bubble by forcing banks to make “NINJO” loans.
It amounts to the same thing, blaming it on right-wingers,
or setting up the fanciful circumstances that he hoped would
trigger a “right-wing response”, which is the LAST thing that would happen.
Interesting that his last name , Llaneza, if you leave out the
2nd and 5th letters, spells “Lanza”, a name fading fast from
the annals of American crime.
If the FBI could fabricate something like this, why not Sandy Hook ?....jus sayin,
Okayyy.... let's review. How many zombies voted for The Impostor? Twice?
Pretty sure they don’t know what we’re doing that we don’t talk about. No partners, no conspiracy.
No doubt. Especially with the media building Dorner up to be a superstar.
Exactly. This guy is acting out Obama’s Social Justice meme using the bitter clingers as scapegoats.
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