They Really Did Foil A Domestic Terror Plot

[rucky]

Trust me on this one - this story is legit. Don't even try to debunk it or you will get egg on your face. A terror plot was foiled in progress, without the help of the NSA or the PATRIOT ACT. Repeat (because the Right will use this to attack us) WE DO NOT NEED THE PATRIOT ACT OR ILLEGAL WIRETAPS TO FIGHT TERROR.

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/13848954.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

Pa. man accused of terrorist plot

By Alfred Lubrano and John Shiffman
Inquirer Staff Writers

Michael Curtis Reynolds says he's a patriot. Federal authorities say he's a terrorist.

The FBI believes that the unemployed Wilkes-Barre man tried to conspire with al-Qaeda to wreck the American economy. Agents say Reynolds plotted to blow up the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, a Pennsylvania pipeline, and a New Jersey refinery.

The sensational allegations, disclosed in a federal transcript obtained by The Inquirer on Friday, reveal a convoluted plot that includes cyberspace intrigue, an elaborate FBI sting, and a clandestine money-drop on a deserted Idaho road.

The case also involves a municipal judge from Montana who has devoted the last four years to snaring would-be terrorists online.

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In the FBI sting two months ago, Reynolds was drawn to a meeting with a purported al-Qaeda operative about 25 miles from the hotel, where he expected to receive $40,000 to finance the alleged plot.

The al-Qaeda contact was actually Shannen Rossmiller, a 36-year-old judge who lives in Conrad, Mont. She was working for the FBI.

"Yes, that was me in communication with Reynolds," Rossmiller acknowledged in a telephone interview Friday night. "But I can't comment further." This is not Rossmiller's first sting. She regularly monitors extremist Muslim Web sites, searching for potential terrorists. In 2004, she helped win a conviction against a National Guardsman in Tacoma, Wash., whom she met online.

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[Roho]

1. After reading the whole article

this sounds like two glory hounds that both tried to play hero. One was a judge the other a schmuck.

Schmuck is looking at several years in prison.

[JohnnyRingo]

2. That was good that he was apprehended

No Al-Queda members were involved however.

It was a sting operation with a judge posing as a terorist to tempt that idiot to finance a terror plot. He probably would have been just as likely to propasition the judge as a prostitute.

That said, the world wont miss him while he's in prison.

[rucky]

3. it's unclear who all's involved...

but apparently, it wasn't set up by the Judge:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/11/national/main1307690.shtml

"Rossmiller was scanning terrorist websites when she noticed a post from Reynolds seeking $40,000 dollars to by fuel trucks to blow up refineries in New Jersey and Wyoming and a section of the Alaska oil pipeline," said Pinkston.

Posing as an al Qaeda banker, Rossmiller promised the money, set up a date and time for the rendeszvous near Pocatello, Idaho, and notified the FBI. They set up a sting.

[JohnnyRingo]

5. OK...I understand n/t

[cornermouse]

7. Terrorists have websites?

Why? Wouldn't that make it easier for the CIA and FBI to find them?

This doesn't make any sense.

[KittyWampus]

9. yes, terrorist websites. WWW.PlotTerrorNow.com

or is it .net?

[Road Scholar]

4. Thanks for the heads up. nt

[Peter Frank]

6. Who cares, given that this admin orchestrated the new Pearl Harbor??...

...AKA 911.

[papau]

8. Rossmiller has caught over 100 - Ryan being the most famous before

this one.

I think she has a neat hobby!

They show her face in an old photograph and then say they can't show her face in a current photo for her own safety - I swear our FBI is trying to prove to the terrorists that they are as smart as the terrorists - or not! :-)

Meanwhile she has been doing this for several years - why the hell can't the FBI set up its own act?

I mean after she caught the first one, then the first ten, you'd think they would realize the process works - and heck, after she got all the PR for Ryan - The PR that the FBI loves - you'd think they would try to compete and get in front of what she is doing rather than waiting for her phone call.

Amazing...

:toast:

[KittyWampus]

10. The FBI's too busy leafing thru the mountains of irrelevant info the NSA

sent if from many thousands of senseless wiretaps?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. Methinks Al-Queda is smarter than hiring a "rent-a-terrorist".

Especially one who advertises what he has in mind on a website.

Or, to put it in the vernacular - What a crock of steaming BS.

[seabeyond]

12. they are suppose to catch bad guys. that is there job.

we demand and expect nothing less. thanks