It was in fact the second time this year that the FBI distanced itself from the NYPD’s own terrorist busts on the grounds that the alleged plots really didn’t amount to serious threats. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King (R-NY) seized on the arrest to highlight the importance of the upcoming congressional hearings on homegrown terrorism and to warn, "This threat is morphing and expanding." Fox News contributor Judith Miller seconded King’s concerns, noting that, even though the law won this time, the threat of homegrown Islamic terrorism is "still very real."īut just how real is the threat? In Pimentel’s case, it turns out, not threatening enough to warrant the involvement of federal officials.Įven though terrorist plots are normally the purview of the FBI, the Feds declined to take part in the arrest of Pimentel. ![]() New York’s finest have once again disrupted a terrorist plot that, in the words of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, "would have killed a lot of people." According to authorities, al Qaeda sympathizer Jose Pimentel - a so-called "textbook terror suspect" - was about an hour away from testing his homemade pipe bombs when the NYPD swooped in last week and collared him.
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