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A New york mam has been arrested for planning to attack police, military personnel and postal facilities. . Jose Pimentel, 27, was charged with terrorism-related offences, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told a news conference in the city. Mr Pimentel was a “lone wolf” inspired by al-Qaeda who also allegedly planned to target United States troops returning from abroad, Mr Bloomberg said.
He was alleged to have learned bomb-making from an al-Qaeda magazine. The man, an unemployed US citizen originally from the Dominican Republic, was also known as Muhammad Yusuf and had been under surveillance for at least a year before his arrest.
He has been charged on three terrorism-related counts and two other counts. According to the charges, Mr Pimentel expressed support of al-Qaeda and belief in jihad in posts he wrote for a radical blog.
He allegedly found Instructions on how to build a pipe bomb from al-Qaeda’s Inspire magazine, published by radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed by a US drone attack in Yemen in September.
One of the articles was entitled “How to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom”, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said at the news conference. Mr Pimentel spoke about “killing US servicemen returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, particularly US army and marine corps personnel”, Mr Kelly said.
A New york mam has been arrested for planning to attack police, military personnel and postal facilities. . Jose Pimentel, 27, was charged with terrorism-related offences, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told a news conference in the city. Mr Pimentel was a “lone wolf” inspired by al-Qaeda who also allegedly planned to target United States troops returning from abroad, Mr Bloomberg said.
He was alleged to have learned bomb-making from an al-Qaeda magazine. The man, an unemployed US citizen originally from the Dominican Republic, was also known as Muhammad Yusuf and had been under surveillance for at least a year before his arrest.
He has been charged on three terrorism-related counts and two other counts. According to the charges, Mr Pimentel expressed support of al-Qaeda and belief in jihad in posts he wrote for a radical blog.
He allegedly found Instructions on how to build a pipe bomb from al-Qaeda’s Inspire magazine, published by radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed by a US drone attack in Yemen in September.
One of the articles was entitled “How to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom”, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said at the news conference. Mr Pimentel spoke about “killing US servicemen returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, particularly US army and marine corps personnel”, Mr Kelly said.
