From all I've read (most of it here, which is a far more reliable source than anywhere else) it looks like (a) FBI has been watching this cockroach for quite a while, (b) its involvement in the Madrid bombings finally forced FBI's hand, (c) this is another "Cell" akin to the gang of rocket scientists (including Mike Hogwash) who tried to cross China to get into Afghanistan to "Fight The U.S. Aggressors In The Jihad" (Get a look at a map of Asia sometime... you'll be *amazed* at the stupidity of these people, especially a supposedly "intelligent" "educated" engineering type like Hogwash). I think we can expect a cleanup of some magnitude, over the next few days. (My sympathies go out to the local FBI; hopefully rubber gloves will be enough, if not, my condolences for having to wear rubber suits...).
Don't you remember that Vera Katz issued an order to the chief of police in Portland, that he was not to cooperate with the FBI or INS?
When 9/11 happened, the *only* thing she had to say, in her grating nasal whine, was "We need to be sure no minorities get hurt as a result of this". She couldn't have cared less about the fact that 3000 people just died; all she could think of doing was trying to turn it into some sort of civil rights issues for Islamikazis. (Of course, the vile old hosebag had at least one local Islamikazi working *right there in her orifice*, so it's no surprise...)
They arrested him on a material witness charge so they can hold him while further investigation is being conducted (again according to local news).
That's the same thing they did with Mike Hogwash, and the entire time the FBI was holding him, the local leftist commune was demonstrating and howling and protesting and wailing and screaming to the heavens about how unjustly he was being treated ("Free Mike Hogwash" buttons were everywhere...). Then when the indictments were handed down, all of a sudden all the howlers were nowhere to be found... and would rapidly change the subject if you asked them about it... and were suddenly back to worrying about protecting the endangered ancient Iranian leopard mosquito or whatever...
But maybe they were "peaceful" explosives.
Oh, yes, of course! The blessed explosives of Allah (Peace Be Unto Him), the merciful, the just, the smelling-of-goat-fundament...
This "Converted" Islamic rat is just a poster child for the Left in Oregon. He looks like every intolerantly glaring coffee-shop liberal I've ever run into in Beaverfornia (which is where he comes from; Aloha is now just part of Beaverfornia, which is basically now just a cesspool of left-wing Intel imports). We need to seize every possibility to use this and Hogwash and the rest of them as examples of what Vera the Vile and left-wing fascist multiculturalism in general are doing to this State.
ROFL