Portland Mayor Tom Potter and City Council Assisted Muslim Teen Terrorist in Plot to Blow up 25,000 Americans

"I want whoever is attending that event to leave either dead or injured," Mohamud said of the 25,000 people expected to take part in the event.

The plot thickens on the Christmas lighting WMD bombing in Portland. Our communist elected officials, in this case the Mayor of Portland and the Portland City Council, put the city at high risk by refusing to work with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. The leftist/Islamic alliance in action.

Muslim terrorist Mohamud actually targeted Portland because: "According to the FBI affidavit, the undercover agents asked whether he worried that law enforcement would stop him. "In Portland?" Mohamud replied.  "Not really.  They don't see it as a place where anything will happen.  People say, you know, why, anybody want to do something in Portland, you know, it's on the west coast, it's in Oregon, and Oregon's, like you know, nobody ever thinks about it."

Politically correct Portland rejected feds who saved city from terrorist attack Byron York, Examiner

In 2005, leaders in Portland, Oregon, angry at the Bush administration's conduct of the war on terror, voted not to allow city law enforcement officers to participate in a key anti-terror initiative, the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.  On Friday, that task force helped prevent what could have been a horrific terrorist attack in Portland.  Now city officials say they might re-think their participation in the task force -- because Barack Obama is in the White House.

Reading the FBI affidavit describing Islamist terror suspect Mohamed Osman Mohamud's plan to bomb a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square is a chilling experience.  Mohamud, a Somali-born naturalized U.S. citizen who attended Oregon State University, told undercover FBI agents he dreamed of performing acts of jihad in which hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Americans would die.  "Do you remember when 9/11 happened when those people were jumping from skyscrapers?" Mohamud asked the agents, according to the affidavit.  "I thought that was awesome."

In months of preparation with men he thought were co-conspirators but were in fact undercover agents, Mohamud backed up his talk with action.  After initially making email contact with Islamist radicals in Pakistan, he took part in constructing what he hoped would be an extraordinarily powerful bomb, scouted the best location for the attack, parked the van containing the bomb near the Christmas tree crowd, and, finally, dialed the cell phone number he believed would detonate the explosives. "I want whoever is attending that event to leave either dead or injured," Mohamud said of the 25,000 people expected to take part in the event.

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What is ironic is that the operation that found and stopped Mohamud is precisely the kind of law enforcement work that Portland's leaders, working with the American Civil Liberties Union, rejected during the Bush years.  In April 2005, the Portland city council voted 4 to 1 to withdraw Portland city police officers from participating in the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. Mayor Tom Potter said the FBI refused to give him a top-secret security clearance so he could make sure the officers weren't violating state anti-discrimination laws that bar law enforcement from targeting suspects on the basis of their religious or political beliefs.

Other city leaders agreed.  "Here in Portland, we are not willing to give up individual liberties in order to have a perception of safety," said city commissioner Randy Leonard.  "It's important for cities to know how their police officers are being used."

Local officials were also angry about the FBI's mistaken arrest of Brandon Mayfield, a Portland lawyer and convert to Islam, for the 2004 train bombings in Madrid, Spain.  But well before the Mayfield case, Portland had a history of rejecting Bush administration efforts to fight terrorism.  "Portland's decision would not be the first time the city has taken a contrary stand in the war on terrorism," the Los Angeles Times reported in 2005.  "In the months after Sept. 11, city leaders refused to cooperate with federal efforts to interview thousands of local Muslims. In 2003, the City Council criticized and called for radical changes in the USA Patriot Act, the much-debated federal anti-terrorism legislation."

In the Mohamud case, it appears that Portland's anti-law enforcement stand might actually have influenced Mohamud's decision to undertake an attack in the city.  According to the FBI affidavit, the undercover agents asked whether he worried that law enforcement would stop him. "In Portland?" Mohamud replied.  "Not really.  They don't see it as a place where anything will happen.  People say, you know, why, anybody want to do something in Portland, you know, it's on the west coast, it's in Oregon, and Oregon's, like you know, nobody ever thinks about it."

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Related: Oregon Muslim: "I want whoever is attending that [Christmas Tree Lighting] event to leave, to leave either dead or injured" "Explode on the 'Infidels'"

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US Teen Muslim Arrested after Trying to Explode Car Bomb Moments before a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony

Comments

[Heltau]

looks like Portland, Oregon needs some serious God Smacking, by allah. Maybe THEN their liberal, dope using minds, will be forced clear and they will act accordingly and correctly.
Or, maybe not. They are not mexeafornia, so who knows how they will react to the destruction of 25,000 people.
All we need to do is MISS just ONE TIME, and it over for thousands of United States citizens, again.
Happy Christmass.

[Richard 2]

I doubt if may minds were changed but the attempted car bombing, the left has to much emotion tied up in their hatred for the US for them to be changed very easily.

[tfb]

You should not protect them from themselves; Portland needs its ass kicked, serves them right, err, left...

[Stephen Rohaty]

They will react by pulling the voting statistics of the dead to see how many votes they won't have in their next election. Then, they will blame their opponents for the disaster. EVERY policeman with 3 months on the job can tell you that profiling DOES work! If you're looking for a bomber who wants to cause major casualties, don't spend your meager time questioning Mormons or Seventh Day Adventists. And if you come across someone screaming "Allahu Akbar" as they punch numbers into a cell phone you gun them down on the spot. By the way, I would tell you that saying Happy Christmas offends many fanatic mohammedans, but that would be profiling.

[True Patriot]

Portland has always been a nest of nutcases just like Seattle. They are migrating by-products of the left coast libnuts.

There are only 3 solutions to this problem. Ready, aim, fire. These savage coward evil vermin do not deserve to be in this country, and should netted up in masses, covered with pig's blood and dropped into shark infested waters.

In Biblical times the Israelites were commanded by God to go out into the land and kill all of the population, which are now these vile evil muslims. The Israelites by disobeying God have put upon the entire world the most vile evil that walks this planet. Muslims are evil and savage cowards.

[TopAssistant]

Our history with “PEACEFUL” Islam

“Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, then serving as American ambassadors to France and Britain, respectively, met in 1786 in London with the Tripolitan Ambassador to Britain, Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja. These future American presidents were attempting to negotiate a peace treaty which would spare the United States the ravages of jihad piracy—murder, enslavement (with ransoming for redemption), and expropriation of valuable commercial assets—emanating from the Barbary states (modern Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, known collectively in Arabic as the Maghrib). During their discussions, they questioned Ambassador Adja as to the source of the unprovoked animus directed at the nascent United States republic. Jefferson and Adams, in their subsequent report to the Continental Congress, recorded the Tripolitan Ambassador’s justification:
…. that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.” We need to start with our history and then progress to the history of Islam and their quest to conquer the world. Read Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation by Joshua E. London.

[tfb]

There was a fire at the mosque, a small one, and the FBI immediately offered a $10,000 reward to find the perp.
Looks like another auto-islamophobia, self-attack, if you look at what their pattern is. Attack, retreat, squeal how they're sceered of retribution, feign an antimuslimislamophobicbigot attack, and claim once again...
the
coveted
victim
status
arghhhhhhhh!

By the way not a single member of the mosque states they had the slightest inkling...heck the FBI was on to him for 4 months, and he had I think 6 55 gallon drums of fuel in a van...that takes help...such al taquiya

and what about the Corvallis imam? He is the "imprimatur" yet again...

[tfb]

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Arsonist-hits-Corvallis-Islamic-Center--110937104.html?commentPage=0#comments

[Mac-101]

How can such "Inteligent" Libs be SO stupid to support a group TOTALLY against everything Libs believe in?

[damon whitsell]

Here is a FoxNews video on this exact subject

http://thereligionofconquest.com/2010/11/29/portlands-city-council-and-mayor-rejected-joint-terrorism-task-force-in-2005/

[Papa Giorgio]

I posted a FOX & FRIENDS video on this very topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkLDYD0yuFA

[Call me Lennie]

The Portland City Council refused to cooperate because they were miffed that the would be terrorist was going to destroy the Christmas tree before they themselves could get a court order to take it down.*

And what's all the hubbub about this whole thing anyhow? It's not like anyone in Portland would have been hurt by this bomb, even if it was real. Who in Portland goes to a Christmas Tree ceremony?

*(H/T to Matt @ iowntheworld.com for that one)

[wilber]

For those unaware, Portland is a very Liberal Democratic place.
Even the Mayor is Gay and has had problems due to, well, young men...
While the Portland Mayor and City Council may take an lassaie fair point of view.
The rest of the populace does not agree with those policies... And will not stand to be threatened.
In large part a very tolerant and civil place to live.
Save that if someone tries to blow them up, expect some unpleasant and swift replies.
Seems that is how a culture and way of life survives....
Play nice and get along...

[Yak]

Thank God the FBI saved them from their own fake bomb. These commies won't turn over all their rights over to the feds...bunch of authoritarians.

[karl anglin]

The City of Portland Oregon needs to clean house!
Get rid of these officials!
Restrict immigration from Muslim nations!!!!!

[karl anglin]

Excellent Biblical reference!

[Alan]

This is what happens when you let hippies run a town!

[Dedicated_Dad]

This entire plot was an FBI operation, taking advantage of a misguided teen.

So, he "dreamed of glorious jihad?" BFD. I dream of glorious horizontal escapades with an entire room full of nubile, bisexual 18-year-old nymphomaniac (FEMALE!) gymnasts -- doesn't mean it's ever going to happen.

The odds are overwhelming that this kid would never have been anything but talk until the feebs set him up. That it happened in a city which had refused to cooperate in Big Brother was just 100% coincidence I'm 100% sure.

Right.

On the bright side, unlike OKC, this one didn't get away from them, and they had sense enough to provide a "bomb" that wouldn't really explode. I guess this proves they're not COMPLETE morons - they have some capacity to learn from their mistakes. OTOH, I don't think they'd give the carnage a second thought if they believed it would advance their agenda.

[Egghead]

The only misguided people here are the misguided people who are importing whole societies of uncivilized and uneducated Islamists into the United States.

I say that we send this "misguided" teen right back to Somalia where he belongs. Then, maybe he can get an "honest" job as a Somali pirate....

[americantaxpayer]

We will all be sure to contact the FBI and complain about their "taking advantage of a misuided teen."
(Better take off those blinders -- for the rest of us, if not for yourself.)