Interesting timing on this one…
I can’t help but think that Mayor Bloomberg is trying to take some focus off his gestapo tactics against Occupy Wall Street last week….
Seems like the real goal is to make Bloomberg and the NYPD look like good guys again….
If they have been watching this guy- who sounds like another lone wolf lunatic- for 2 years, why did they decide to arrest him now? No mention of an imminent threat….
Also, I love Bloomberg’s comments about people taking away freedoms. Didn’t he just do that?
Call me cynical….
From NPR:
An “al-Qaida sympathizer” who plotted to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as U.S. troops returning home has been arrested on numerous terrorism-related charges, city officials said Sunday.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced at a news conference the Saturday arrest of Jose Pimentel of Manhattan, “a 27-year-old al-Qaida sympathizer” who the mayor said was motivated by terrorist propaganda and resentment of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
As a general matter, law enforcement officials categorize terrorist plots by determining if they are “aspirational” or “inspirational.” Aspirational plots involve someone wishing or wanting to do something; inspirational are plots when a suspect actually acts.
Officials say Pimentel was in the second category.
The mayor said Pimentel, a U.S. citizen originally from the Dominican Republic, was “plotting to bomb police patrol cars and also postal facilities as well as targeted members of our armed services returning from abroad.”
Authorities have no evidence that Pimentel was working with anyone else, the mayor added.
“He appears to be a total lone wolf,” the mayor said. “He was not part of a larger conspiracy emanating from abroad.”
Instead, Bloomberg said, Pimentel represents the type of threat FBI Director Robert Mueller has warned about as U.S. forces erode the ability of terrorists to carry out large scale attacks.
Pimentel, also known as Muhammad Yusuf, is accused of having an explosive substance Saturday when he was arrested that he planned to use against others and property to terrorize the public.
The charges accuse him of conspiracy going back at least to October 2010, and include first-degree criminal possession of a weapon as a crime of terrorism, and soliciting support for a terrorist act. He was to be arraigned later Sunday and would face state terror charges.
“This is just another example of New York City because we are an iconic city … this is a city that people would want to take away our freedoms gravitate to and focus on,” Bloomberg said.
Lost in the 21st Century 
Scott, my mother is also suspicious, cynical, & conspiracy theorist and she agrees with you! No word about this sudden discovery on NY1 or the talk radio stations I heard as of yet,..but it will be a topic of discussion very soon. I Love New York!
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