Feds say they disrupted suicide bomb plot against Wichita airport

[Eugene]

Last edited Fri Dec 13, 2013, 04:00 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: NBC News

18 minutes ago

By Pete Williams, Chief Justice Correspondent, NBC News

Federal officials say they've arrested a Kansas man who allegedly wanted to set off a suicide bomb at the Wichita airport.

Officials were to announce details of the case at a news conference at 2 p.m. ET in Wichita.

In advance of the news conference, an official familiar with the case told NBC News that the suspect was "an older white man," who became radicalized after reading extremist Islamic material on the web.

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Source: Associated Press

Man Arrested in Car Bomb Plot at Kan. Airport

WICHITA, Kan. December 13, 2013 (AP)
By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press

A Kansas man accused of planning to detonate a car bomb at a Wichita airport was arrested Friday at the airport, authorities said.

Terry Lee Loewen, 58, planned to drive a car that he believed was full of explosives into a terminal at Mid-Continent regional airport, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.

Loewen was charged with one count each of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, attempting to damage property and attempting to provide support to terrorist group al-Qaida. Authorities said he was trying to support "al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula."

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[Th1onein]

1. I smell another trumped up bullcrap case of entrapment.......

to convince us that we need to be scared of terra. Radicalized after reading extremist Islamic material on the web? Indeed.

Do they really think we are this stupid?

[Schema Thing]

3. yes, no one will ever do anything nefarious or crazy ever again

it will always be the government false flagging. Story over.

[Th1onein]

5. You need to inform yourself.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/02/how-the-fbi-helps-terrorists-succeed/273537/

[Schema Thing]

10. oh I totally agree. I don't even have to read beyond headlines anymore

It's ALWAYS the government. America is totally free of all threats now, but the fascist want their money, so they manufacture these events, several per year.

I just wish everyone could see through the veil that you and I have torn through.

[Th1onein]

11. I don't think America is now, or ever will be, free of all threats. And neither do you.

But we need to spend our efforts on tracking down REAL threats, not manufactured ones. These very same people targeted Occupy and entrapped them into a "terroristic threat." That should tell you something about those that want to "protect" you. Occupy was a peaceful popular uprising; they did their utmost to turn it into a terrorist organization, in order to shut them up. And they're getting more brazen about it, as well. The next popular uprising will be met with a jack boot on our throats.

[leftynyc]

7. Because EVERYBOBY just LOVES us

It couldn't possibly be there's anyone out there wishes to harm Americans.

[Ace Acme]

14. Way back in 2004 abc news tested security

... protecting against two easily foreseeable terrorist attacks.

They left backpacks on the trains in the Philly-DC corridor, and they drove through open gates into chemical plants in New Jersey. There was nothing to stop them, and nothing to stop any terrorists either.

There is no shortage of soft targets, no shortage of scenarios which would even allow the perps to escape.

Specific to the chemical plants, back in 2004 the EPA had the authority to demand that defenses such as tank traps be installed to prevent motorized terrorist assault, and did not exercise that authority.

Now it appears that the four gunmen at that Kenyan shopping mall escaped.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. In 2003, I reported a suspicious backpack left on a BART car

A guy came on, sat down, put his backpack under the seat, was twitchy, kept looking around,
and at the next station he jumped up and ran off the train.
I went up to the train driver, told her exactly what I saw, and she said..
" Ok, I will try to remember to look for it when we get to the end of the line".

I did not get back on the train.
NO explosions happened.

I chose to drive to work after that.

[demigoddess]

17. Amen, why is it that the only people they catch

are always assisted by FBI agents???

[1000words]

2. I love you, Big Bother!

doubleplusgood

[Brigid]

15. "He loved Big Brother."

-- the last sentence in "1984."

[CJCRANE]

4. I want to know who is producing this extremist propaganda

that seems to brainwash people?

[leftynyc]

6. It's all over the internet

If you want to radicalize, there are people out there only too happy to oblige.

[Th1onein]

8. The FBI, probably.

They are hard at work, "protecting" us right out of our liberties.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/02/department-pre-crime

[politichew]

9. Anyone that would accept a bomb from anyone to go kill a bunch of people

shouldn't be walking the streets a free person.

People can argue entrapment or pre-crime all the want, but it doesn't change the fact this person was eager and willing to detonate a bomb inside this country.

He will get what he rightly deserves.

[Diego_Native 2012]

12. Give me a day, a plausible looking car/bomb, and a few quarts of

bourbon and I could find half a dozen people within walking distance who would agree to carry out a suicide bombing on any target you named. People are angry. And not just for religious reasons. And there's a lot of people who don't need any more reason than it being possible to half want to do something like that to begin with.

[politichew]

13. I'm angry about many things, but not enough to commit acts of violence.

If I were that easily goaded into violence, then I'd definitely warrant a time out.

[oberliner]

18. The responses to this story here are almost as disturbing as the story itself

Seriously - what the heck?