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A 27-year-old man suspected of
plotting to bomb various targets in New York City, including
those of government and police, has been arrested, Mayor Michael
Bloomberg said Sunday.
Police suspected Jose Pimentel, a Manhattan resident and
al Qaida sympathizer, was plotting to bomb police, post offices
and various other targets, Bloomberg told a news conference
The suspect allegedly got instructions on how to build a
pipe bomb from al Qaida's Inspire magazine, published by radical
cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed by a U.S. drone attack
in Yemen in September.
Police has followed the suspect since May 2009 and successfully
took the man into custody before he could detonate a fully-operated
bomb, according to the New York Police Department Commissioner
Ray Kelly.
This is the 14th terror threat targeting New York City since
the 9/11 attacks and the suspect was believed to act alone.
"The suspect was a so-called lone wolf, motivated by
his own resentment of American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan,
as well as al Qaida propaganda," Bloomberg said. "He
was not part of a larger conspiracy emanating from abroad."
The suspect now faces terrorism-related charges including
conspiracy, first-degree criminal possession of a weapon as
a crime of terrorism, and soliciting support for a terrorist
act.
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