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A terrorist sympathizer, a college dropout who idolized both American terrorist Timothy McVeigh and Islamic jihadists while learning the hard way how to build bombs, likely faces a lengthy prison sentence after confessing to two terrorism-related crimes.
Joseph Jefferey Brice, 22, who nearly died when one of his eight-pound homemade bombs exploded in April 2010, pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Spokane to illegally making the device and later providing bomb-making instructions online to potential foreign terrorists.
When Brice recovered from his bomb exploding on him, a Whitman County sheriffs deputy who investigated the blast decided not to recommend the filing of state charges because he believed, after a phone interview, that the young man had learned his lesson the hard way. (Imagine this happening with a Muslim) Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives also initially concluded the explosion was caused by a malfunction with tannerite, even though Brice didnt have a firearm with him to ignite the explosive, the court documents say.
Meanwhile, the FBIs interest in Brice heightened when agents learned that the explosion that nearly killed him didnt end his interest and promotion of bomb-building techniques. Since his near-fatal incident, court documents say, Brice, a self-declared, conservative, right-wing Christian, appeared to undergo a rapid radicalization to Islam.
As the investigation progressed, FBI agents reviewed Brices online activity and telephone records. He was arrested on May 9, 2011.
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/09/26/washington-bomb-maker-pleads-guilty-feds-say-tried-to-help-jihadists/
Weird... Wasn't there some kind of report on nuts like these?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)former-republican
(2,163 posts)McVeigh was a terrorist and murderer
You shouldn't clump Weaver and McVeigh together.
And yes I know McVeigh's claims why he did what he did.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)patiently for him to surrender for selling illegal guns to racists like Ayran Nation. Weaver was a despicable soul, who had ample opportunity to give himself up with no gun fire. Unfortunately, he choose to send his kid and friends out to kill agents while hiding behind his racist wife. And, he was a racist, illegal gun trafficker, and probably worse.
To me, anyone who sells guns to Ayran Nation, the KKK, or whomever, to use in their hatred is a murderer too. And please don't tell me the feds set him up. Weaver thought he was selling to his buddies in Ayran Nation, and would have if the feds had not stopped him. Why people support real terrorists like him is beyond me.