UPDATED 1:51 p.m. ET
U.S. officials on Friday arrested a Moroccan man they say was planning a suicide mission at the U.S. Capitol, a law enforcement official told CBS News.
The man was never a real threat and part of an apparent sting, the official told CBS News.
The suspect is a 29 year old in the United States illegally and living in Alexandria, Virginia, officials said.
The man had been seeking assistance in executing a terrorist attack against the United States, and officials had investigating him for months. FBI agents arrested him in his garage in Alexandria after providing him with what he believed was a suicide vest.
Additional reporting by Andres Triay and John Miller.
I beg to differ that "the man was never a real threat". He was definitely a threat, but he got caught in the sting before he actually was able to carry out anything. Anyone who was "seeking assistance in executing a terrorist attack" is a threat and should be permanently in jail.
Whats up with these incompetent terrorists?
Whats up with these incompetent terrorists? They obviously don't have problems making suicide vests in 3rd world shitholes and its not hard to learn to make something that goes boom from the internet.
I would wager that just about anyone here could make a something that goes boom without having to ask someone "hey, could you help me make a suicide vest".
I beg to differ that "the man was never a real threat". He was definitely a threat, but he got caught in the sting before he actually was able to carry out anything. Anyone who was "seeking assistance in executing a terrorist attack" is a threat and should be permanently in jail.
Maybe it's all BS to drum up support for the ever wasteful and greedy military industrial complex?
I think it was a poor choice of words. This was CBS News paraphrasing something said by a "law enforcement official." What was probably meant was that the specific attack he was planning that he is now being detained for had no chance of success.
Likely this.
Also, they're catching the low hanging fruit -- the unhappy, immature, emotionally adrift and needy kind that would post their intentions on OT along with how much money they make.
I for one am really glad that most of these people are idiots. Imagine how bad it would be if they were smart. Then again, if they weren't idiots they wouldn't be terrorists anyway.
Yes, because suicide bombers are something new, and rather unusual when carried by Muslims.
Maybe they should be apprehended after the fact.
For which you should be thankful.....Frankly I don't see what all the fuss about terrorists is about. Excluding 9/11 the vast majority of them fail badly.
Excluding 9/11 over a decade ago, they are in the states.
I like how it keeps turning up that the so-called terrorists were in the US illegally, and yet the politically-correct sensitivity dummies bend over backwards protecting the "rights" of those who entered the US illegally.
And why is it so? Hint: it is not because they are now prohibited by Muslim clerics or out of fashion. Potential terrorists are intercepted before you get to hear about it.
I for one am really glad that most of these people are idiots. Imagine how bad it would be if they were smart. Then again, if they weren't idiots they wouldn't be terrorists anyway.
Not to be a smart ass, but how do you know? "I don't see any terrorists, it must be because our anti-terrorism policies are working." seems like some flawed reasoning to me.
Moroccan? That doesn't make sense. It suppose to be Iranian.
Well anyone dumb enough to believe the 72 male virgins thing or whatever shouldn't really be expected to execute a successful attack on a first world country.
For which you should be thankful.....