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FBI: Man Attempted To Bomb Bank, Trying To Set Off US Civil War
NBC News ^ | 2-8-2013 | Pete Williams

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bankofamerica; boca; bofa; bomb; california; counterterrorism; domesticterrorism; explosives; fbi; globaljihad; jihad; leftists; leftwingnuts; llaneza; matthewaaronllaneza; matthewllaneza; oakland; oaklandcell; taleban; taliban; terrorism; war; waronterror
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1 posted on 02/08/2013 4:20:02 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

That’s odd, the story at the blaze says he hoped it would be blamed on right wingers.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/08/civil-war-california-man-planned-to-frame-anti-government-right-wing-groups-in-bank-bomb-plot/


3 posted on 02/08/2013 4:25:26 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: blam; Travis McGee

I expect to see this modus operandi attempted again.


4 posted on 02/08/2013 4:25:47 PM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: blam

Silly Rabbit....

You are supposed to fire toward the banks of Ft. Sumter if you want to kick that off..........


5 posted on 02/08/2013 4:25:47 PM PST by wonkowasright (Wonko from outside the asylum)
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To: blam

note to self: anyone offering to help build a bomb is probably an FBI agent.


6 posted on 02/08/2013 4:27:18 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: blam
"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.

He had a lot of faith that the government would overreact in a very oppressive way.

...then walked a safe distance away and tried to set it off, when he was then arrested.

I would love to have seen the look on his face when nothing happened.

7 posted on 02/08/2013 4:30:17 PM PST by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: blam
Pro-Taliban terrorist tries to blow up Oakland bank — and blame it on the Right — to start civil war

Due to his Taliban sympathies I doubt he is a conservative. One more for the left, most likely. And I would bet that the FBI first picked up his trail at an OWS event.

8 posted on 02/08/2013 4:30:25 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Doogle

I don’t think that is the correct picture of him. I think that one is the renegade Democrat murderer in California. I was searching his name too, and that came up, but on a loser look it was from a link to the California Democrat lunatic.


9 posted on 02/08/2013 4:37:25 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

Fortunately these clowns are universally stupid enough to believe the stranger who says they can help with explosives.


10 posted on 02/08/2013 4:39:03 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Vince Ferrer

could be right, now that you mention it...I’ll pull it


11 posted on 02/08/2013 4:39:12 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: blam
"'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."

Who's dreaming up such crazy conspiracy tales? Next thing you know, they'll claiming that he wanted to push and drug a rich nerd with a high grade average into doing it for him. ;-)


12 posted on 02/08/2013 4:40:33 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: familyop

lol.

did this guy have to hire a tutor?


13 posted on 02/08/2013 4:43:36 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: blam

Political violence almost always comes from the Left when it isn’t a jihadi.

In this case, you have a leftist wishing he was a jihadi.

Oh well. If only we had more gun control laws.


14 posted on 02/08/2013 4:46:45 PM PST by marron
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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," "

Glad we're all on the same page.

15 posted on 02/08/2013 4:53:47 PM PST by APatientMan (Pick a side)
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To: driftdiver
note to self: anyone offering to help build a bomb is probably an FBI agent.

...or a Chicago professor...


16 posted on 02/08/2013 4:57:13 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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To: cripplecreek

Reichstag fire.


17 posted on 02/08/2013 4:58:00 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: reg45

Conservative Republicans do not bomb banks. Marxist “Occupy” types do.


18 posted on 02/08/2013 5:00:07 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: reg45

That’s how Llaneza saw it but I personally think the left is becoming unhinged over the fact that their great savior is bringing about nothing but destruction. They can’t accept it so they lash out at the right.

Cognitive dissonance.


19 posted on 02/08/2013 5:02:28 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: marron

Yep, check your history books.


20 posted on 02/08/2013 5:05:53 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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