Sat Sep 15, 2012, 04:47 PM

shawn703 (1,861 posts)

US prosecutor: 18-year-old arrested for attempting to set off car bomb outside Chicago bar

Source: Washington Post

CHICAGO — FBI agents have arrested a man they say planned to set off a car bomb outside a bar in downtown Chicago.

Federal prosecutors say 18-year-old Adel Daoud was arrested Friday night in an undercover operation in which agents pretending to be extremists provided him with a phony car bomb.

The U.S. District Attorney’s Office in Chicago said in a news release Saturday the device was inert and the public was never at risk.

Daoud is a U.S. citizen from the Chicago suburb of Hillside.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/us-prosecutor-18-year-old-arrested-for-attempting-to-set-off-car-bomb-outside-chicago-bar/2012/09/15/fda63218-ff74-11e1-98c6-ec0a0a93f8eb_story.html

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US prosecutor: 18-year-old arrested for attempting to set off car bomb outside Chicago bar (Original post)	shawn703	Sep 2012	OP
Shows why you need to know who it is you're buying from...	rfranklin	Sep 2012	#1
How many entrapment arrests have the FBI done now?	dixiegrrrrl	Sep 2012	#2
I don't think the entrapment defense is very strong in this one:	msanthrope	Sep 2012	#3
ah evidence I'm sure the FBI will release everything they have and/or did on this guy	azurnoir	Sep 2012	#5
I don't think any of the cases fall under entrapment under the law. But it's definitely MIHOP.	joshcryer	Sep 2012	#7
That's exactly what I'm wondering.	harmonicon	Sep 2012	#6
Terrorism is contagious, if not treated.	Tucsonric	Sep 2012	#4

Response to shawn703 (Original post)

Sat Sep 15, 2012, 04:48 PM

rfranklin (13,200 posts)

1. Shows why you need to know who it is you're buying from...

He should have asked for ID.

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Sat Sep 15, 2012, 05:13 PM

dixiegrrrrl (31,440 posts)

2. How many entrapment arrests have the FBI done now?

Have they caught ANY would be bombers who were NOT part of an undercover scheme?

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Sat Sep 15, 2012, 05:23 PM

msanthrope (16,914 posts)

3. I don't think the entrapment defense is very strong in this one:

The FBI began monitoring him he allegedly posted material online about violent jihad and the killing of Americans, federal prosecutors said.

In May, two undercover FBI employees contacted Daoud in response to the material and exchanged several electronic messages with him in which he expressed an interest in engaging in violent jihad in the United States or abroad, according to an affidavit.

I'll wait for the evidence to kick in, but will opine that if you want to claim entrapement, it's best not to be found trolling the Internet, looking for jihad.

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Sat Sep 15, 2012, 05:34 PM

azurnoir (27,426 posts)

5. ah evidence I'm sure the FBI will release everything they have and/or did on this guy

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Sat Sep 15, 2012, 09:03 PM

joshcryer (39,855 posts)

7. I don't think any of the cases fall under entrapment under the law. But it's definitely MIHOP.

People shit talk and the internet brings out the worst in them to top it off. That guy could've got bored with the extremist shit after a while. We'll never know. They could've arrested him for writing about attacking people but it wouldn't have been very big charges on the scheme of things. They could've just continued monitoring him but instead they set him up to go out in a blaze of glory.

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Sat Sep 15, 2012, 08:53 PM

harmonicon (11,996 posts)

6. That's exactly what I'm wondering.

I can't believe I didn't even assume that before reading this... I should have, because of course that's the case.

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Sat Sep 15, 2012, 05:29 PM

Tucsonric (3 posts)

4. Terrorism is contagious, if not treated.

Senator Kyl and Romney may be aggravating domestic and foreign terrorism. Their unpatriotic and inflammatory remarks are hurting us all and I hope this incident in Chicago is not related to their ill-timed comments. See his for a view on Terrorism. http://richardringler.weebly.com/historical-documents.html

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