Posted on 04/29/2019 4:49:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. veteran of the war in Afghanistan who prosecutors say plotted to detonate a nail bomb at a Los Angeles-area white nationalist rally, hoping to cause mass casualties, was arrested in an FBI online sting operation, federal prosecutors said on Monday.
Mark Steven Domingo, 26, a U.S. Army infantryman who fought in Afghanistan and recently converted to Islam, was taken into custody on Friday after being given what he thought was a live bomb to use in the attack by an FBI informant, law enforcement officials said.
“Often we are asked what keeps us up at night. This is a case that keeps us up at night,” Ryan Young, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, told a news conference in Los Angeles.
Domingo, who had purchased several hundred long nails to serve as shrapnel in an improvised explosive device, had also suggested attacks on Jews, police officers, churches, a military facility, Southern California freeways and the Santa Monica Pier during internet conversations with the informant, Young said.
He was charged in a federal criminal complaint with providing material support to terrorists and was expected to make an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles later on Monday. It was not immediately clear if he had retained an attorney.
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How do you “sneak” a bomb onto a patio with 5 drunks standing around?
By tomorrow he will morph into a white nationalist. Joy behar and whopie are already working on it.
It's very strange that the title says he planned to "bomb a white nationalist rally" yet in the article it says this ...
Domingo, who had purchased several hundred long nails to serve as shrapnel in an improvised explosive device, had also suggested attacks on Jews, police officers, churches, a military facility, Southern California freeways and the Santa Monica Pier during internet conversations with the informant, Young said.
His intended targets seem to be all over the political map.
Wonder what his Twitter screen name is...
Here come the screams to confiscate firearms from vets. Yes, I know bomb, but ....
Exactly
What I am talking about is that according to the conventional progressive wisdom, which fake quotes science and studies and experts and polls and surveys, the entire history of the world has been one big white nationalist patriarchal rally.
....recently converted to islam....
“This is a case that keeps us up at night”
Yes, you have to work long and odd hours trolling the blogosphere for a mental deficient to talk into moving from rhetoric to action.
Was he going to bomb the regular Friday night pizza and beer white nationalist rally or the regular Easter worshiper’s Sunday white nationalist rally?
Tiptoe, I guess...........
Uh, perhaps he should go to New Zelastan and retaliate.
I am sure there is no motive, correlation or connection associated with that statement. Why is it even there?
In the New Dictionary of the Left, “white nationalist” is synonymous with “Trump supporter” or “2nd Amendment defender” or “gay marriage opponent”. President Trump is white and he loves this nation, thus he is a “white nationalist”. He thinks the USA is better than other countries, which makes him a “white supremacist”.
If you’re non-white, but support him, then you are just a “white nationalist sympathizer”. If your group disagrees with the radical left, then it’s probably a “hate group” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center or Atheists, Criminals, and Lawyers United.
Soooooooo true.
His targets are all non-Muslims.
“March to END Sanctuary State”
The usual conflation of nationalism and “white nationalism”.
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