While plotting a car bomb attack at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony, Mohamed Osman Mohamud wrote and read a Kwanzaa poem about peace and unity with two Christian college students, authorities said.
The two lives of Mohamed Osman Mohamud might surprise some, but it makes perfect sense to me.
As long as this nation remains a free and open society, welcoming immigrants from all around the world, terrorists will be able to evade suspicion by simply looking "normal."
Go out and read peaceful poems and play video games and act as if you fit in to American society before your friends and family.
When you get back home, though, lock the doors and draw the curtains. Then you can plan your terrorist attacks and author your anti-American rants against the "infidels." ."
On Nov. 4th, undercover FBI agents who had won over Mohamud's trust took him to a remote site in Lincoln County, where he pressed a button on a cell phone and watched an explosion. This was a test for the planned bombing of a Christmas tree lighting Nov. 26th at Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Luckily, Mohamud, like the "Shoe bomber" and the "Underwear bomber" before him, wasn't smart enough to pull off his murderous plot before alerting authorities.
He will likely spend most of his life behind bars, but eventually, one of these terrorists will succeed and kill lots of innocent Americans.
The only solution would be for America to become a closed society, a police state where armed security officers patrol every street corner, checking every backpack and pocketbook and baby stroller for explosives.
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The Somali-born Muslim teen who sought to kill thousands in a terrorist attack in Portland led a double life, according to investigators.