Mohamed Osman Mohamud Was Turned In By His Parents, Neighbor Says

[dkf]

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/11/mohamed_osman_mohamud_was_turn.php

​Friday night's arrest of Portland's would-be bomber Mohamed Osman Mohamud raised fears once again of the potential threat posed by radicalized Somali immigrants. But some believe the case sets a positive example in one respect: Mohamud's parents may have turned their own son in.

That what's a former neighbor of Mohamud tells Seattle Weekly. The neighbor, who now lives in Seattle and declines to be identified, says he was a friend of Mohamud's mother, a U.S. Postal Service worker named Mariam Barre.

The neighbor says Barre confided to him about her long-running efforts to control her son, who at one point had threatened to blow up his high school. After Mohamud went away to Oregon State University in Corvallis, Barre would call her son daily and drive down to the school during long weekends to take him home, according to the neighbor. She refused to give him money to go with friends to Los Angles during a school break, fearing that he would get into trouble.

[Sonoman]

1. I wonder how FBI found this idiot.

Totally off-the-wall.

Kinda like those homeless dudes in Miami.

The FBI must be spending a ton on this shit.

Sonoman

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Thom Hartman was talking about this today

Apparently his parents did indeed turn him in. And the FBI created this sting to nab him.

Just disgusting.

[dkf]

3. The underwear bomber was turned in by his father.

I guess our people let him run around til he found some explosives anyway. Thank goodness he couldn't figure out how to detonate it.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. What's disgusting? That he was enthusiastic and ready to blow up a crowd full of families w/kids?

I agree.

"You know there's going to be a lot of children there?" an FBI operative asked Mohamud. "You know there are gonna be a lot of children there?"

Mohamud allegedly responded he was looking for a "huge mass that will ... be attacked in their own element with their families celebrating the holidays."

On the drive back to Corvalis, FBI operatives quizzed Mohamud about whether he was capable of looking at the bodies of those who would be killed in his planned Portland attack.

"I want whoever is attending that event to leave, to leave either dead or injured," Mohamud reportedly told the FBI operatives, the affidavit says.

At one point Mohamud told the agents he was not worried about looking at the carnage after the blast. “Do you remember when 9/11 happened when those people were jumping from skyscrapers.… I thought that was awesome,”

[rgbecker]

4. Yeah, it is amazing. Most of these kids who want to blow up or kill someone end up in the Marines.

[Historic NY]

5. Oh yeah he was setup, Government entrapment....well who knows him better than his family.