FBI: Terror Suspect Targeted Wyoming Refinery

The Casper Star-Tribune ^ | 2/15/2006 | AP

[TChris]

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) -- A local law enforcement official in eastern Idaho says an FBI sting that netted a Pennsylvania man -- being investigated in a plot to blow up oil and gas pipelines -- could have gone awry because he and other agencies weren't notified of the operation.

"I think if we have these type of incidents, local law enforcement, at least local law enforcement department heads, need to be notified for the protection of our citizens and our officers," Bannock County Sheriff Lorin Nielsen told the Idaho State Journal.

"Especially where this guy already had warrants out for him. There's got to be better communication, and I'm hoping that's what's going to start happening."

Michael Curtis Reynolds, 47, was arrested Dec. 5 about 25 miles from Pocatello, where he was staying at a motel. The Wilkes-Barre, Pa., man has been charged with possession of a grenade, which police records indicate was found in a Pennsylvania home where Reynolds stayed before traveling to Idaho. Reynolds' sister found the grenade and alerted authorities.

Reynolds has not been charged with terrorism. But a federal prosecutor at a December hearing alleged that he tried to "provide material aid to al-Qaida" and that the case "involves a federal offense of terrorism," The Philadelphia Inquirer reported in its Sunday editions.

As part of an FBI sting two months ago, Reynolds was drawn to a meeting with a purported al-Qaida contact, according to a copy of a federal court hearing transcript obtained by the newspaper. At the meeting he expected to receive $40,000 to finance a plot to use propane-filled trucks to blow up the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the Transcontinental Pipeline, a natural-gas line that runs from the Gulf Coast through Pennsylvania to New Jersey and New York City.

[TChris]

Didn't see this posted. It's a week old, but seems to be pertinent info anyway.

Wyoming link: The FBI also alleges that Reynolds targeted Standard Oil Co. in Perth Amboy, N.J., as well as the Williams Refinery in Opal, Wyo.

[martin_fierro]

Bad freak.

Now you become someone's jailhouse b|tch.

[Marine_Uncle]

There should be state and federal changes in laws that demand high piority fast moving trials, sentencing and immediate death by firing squad or hanging, no BS needle crap and oh my poor man crap. The message has to start to change. You fiddle around in this type crime you die very fast.
Ever wonder why the Arabs cut hands of thieves. This clown is going to get a nice jail cell, color TV, free meals etc., after trying to bring down our infrastruture.

[martin_fierro]

Google often works better than the FR search feature.

[TChris]

Google often works better than the FR search feature.

Ooooh. That smarts! :-/

[FReepaholic]

...Google often works better than the FR search feature....

How often does Google....ummm, what would be the word....scan?...how often does Google scan the FR servers? Weekly? Daily?

[MplsSteve]

If they can conclusively prove this loser tried to help Al-Qaeda, jail is no good.

Let's have the death penalty for him.

He tried to sell out his country. Screw him.

[martin_fierro]

How often does Google....ummm, what would be the word....scan?...how often does Google scan the FR servers? Weekly? Daily?

Let's ask Google, shall we.

[Marine_Uncle]

"Let's have the death penalty for him."
Amen to that. That is why I wrote as I did. New laws at state and federal levels must be put in place so that anyone found to do these kinds of things goes to the firing squad, rope, or chair real quick. NO long term expensive jail sentences. Just quick death sentence then have it carried out.

[Mr. Lucky]

Worse yet; make him wear panties on his head.

[MplsSteve]

LOL!

This guy may actually like that!

[Hoodat]

Google is the devil. Didn't your mama teach you anything?

[mad_as_he$$]

Continuously and then they give your info to the Chinese Government. /sarcam/off

[madconserv]

Isn't this treason? You do or can get the death penalty for treason.

[Boot Hill]

Sheriff Nielsen:   "I think if we have these type of incidents, local law enforcement, at least local law enforcement department heads, need to be notified..."

LOL, the one agency with the least Constitutional and statutory authority, training, experience and expertise, needs to be let in on a top secret foreign counterintelligence matter. Riiiight!

[Marine_Uncle]

"Isn't this treason? You do or can get the death penalty for treason."
If he is an American citizen one would think so. Though al-Qaeda is not a given foreign power we are at war with, they obviously are a foreign entity attempting to do us harm. I am to lazy to wade into all the actions that qualify as treason.

[VOA]

bump for publicity