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| Cleveland FBI says it thwarted downtown Fourth of July terrorist attack |
| 2018-07-02 |
| [clevenland.com] CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Federal law enforcement officials are expected to announce the arrest of a person suspected of planning a Fourth of July terrorist attack in downtown Cleveland. The FBI released a brief statement early Monday saying it will hold a press conference at 9:15 a.m. at the FBI headquarters on Lakeside Avenue in Cleveland. The person is charged with attempted material support of a foreign terrorist organization. FBI special agent Stephen Anthony, U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman, Cleveland police Chief Calvin Williams and other executives from the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force are expected to attend the press conference. The FBI revealed no additional details about the arrest. Cleveland.com will cover the press conference live on Facebook. Added via HotAir: Chalkone up for the FBI. After coming across online postings from a wannabe radical-Islamist terrorist in the suburbs of Cleveland, investigators lured Demetrius Pitts, AKA Abdur Raheem Rahfeeq, into overt acts by posing as a member of al-Qaeda. An arrest was made over the weekend, the FBI announced today, and the home-grown terror suspect’s plans to attack during the Independence Day celebrations in Cleveland have come to naught |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 Was he burning a LeBron James jersey at the time? |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-07-02 18:27 |
| #9 #1 - You said it. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2018-07-02 18:15 |
| #8 AKA Abdur Raheem Rahfeeq. This might have been a tip-off. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-07-02 16:35 |
| #7 Side note. In Chicago And Elsewhere, Latinos Converting To Islam 130 mosques in the city and suburbs are the spiritual home to a small but growing group of converts — Latino Muslims. That increases their Christaphobic value to Democrats because now they just don’t hate America they hate Christians too. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2018-07-02 14:37 |
| #6 I sure hope you are right. I have run into a couple of Lulu's. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2018-07-02 14:26 |
| #5 The problems with the FBI are in upper management, not in the field agents. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2018-07-02 14:24 |
| #4 Is this like the ATF setting up autistic kids to buy machine guns? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-07-02 12:34 |
| #3 Another one hooked by the FBI before he reached some real bad guys. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-07-02 12:04 |
| #2 expected to announce the arrest of a person suspected Pretty tentative I'd say. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-07-02 10:57 |
| #1 Good for them. I expect this to be exaggerated by the press to show how great the FBI are despite recent news. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-07-02 09:49 |