Jose Pimentel

Lone Wolves or Sheep?

Len Levitt | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Joint Terrorism Task Force, Ray Kelly, Ahmed Ferhani, Terrorism, Shahawar Matin Siraj, Jose Pimentel, Mohamed Mamdouh, Nypd Counterterrorism, James Elshafay, Cyrus Vance Jr., New York News

Defense attorney Elizabeth Fink last week underscored an ugly truth about the NYPD's three key terrorism cases. In each case, terrorism suspects have turned out to be mentally unstable young men.

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Alleged 'Lone Wolf' Terrorist Pleads Not Guilty In NYC Plot

AP | By JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 03.14.2012

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NEW YORK -- A man charged with plotting to attack police and soldiers with homemade bombs pleaded not guilty Tuesday to rarely used state-level terror...

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Alleged 'Lone Wolf' Terrorist Indicted In NYC Bomb Plot

AP | By JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Nypd, Ray Kelly, Ny News, Terrorism, Jose Pimentel, Nypd Scandals, Fbi, Muhamma Yusuf, New York News, New York City Bomb Plot, Al Qaeda, Pipe Bombs, New York News

NEW YORK -- A man charged with building a pipe bomb to try to attack police, soldiers and other government targets has been indicted on terror charges...

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Plea Negotiations For NYC Pipe Bomber Case

AP | By JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 01.09.2012

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NEW YORK -- Prosecutors and defense lawyers are in plea negotiations in a rare state-level terror case against a man charged with building a homemade ...

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The Spoils of Spying

Len Levitt | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Joint Terrorism Task Force, Nypd, NYPD Spying Muslims, Jose Pimentel, Muslims, NY Daily News, Nypd Spying, Nypd Documents, New York Muslims, Ny Post, New York News

Now that the AP investigation of the NYPD's widespread spying on the city's Muslims has apparently run its course, what's been the result? Much of the city's establishment have derided the AP series as "smearing" the NYPD.

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Kelly and the Bureau: Inconvenient Truths

Len Levitt | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: FBI Director Robert Mueller, Ray Kelly, Pat D'Amuro, Michael Bloomberg, Mark Mershon, Jose Pimentel, Fbi, Peter Figoski, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Fbi Nypd, New York News

Because Kelly commands the police department of 9/11-scarred NYC, the country's highest government and law enforcement officials seem afraid to level with the public about Kelly and his terrorism policies.

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FBI Director Told Agents To Stop Making Fun Of NYPD Over Pipe Bomber

Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Ray Kelly, Terrorism, Fbi, NY Crime, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Al Qaeda, Video, Nypd, New York City Terrorism Plot, Ny News, Robert Mueller, Jose Pimentel, Pipe Bomb, Pipe Bomber, New York News

During a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Wednesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller confessed to struggling to prevent federal officials from critic...

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The Times Catches On

Len Levitt | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Nypd Abuse, George Freeman, Nypd Journalist Arrests, Ray Kelly, Journalistic Freedom, Jose Pimentel, New York Times, Press Credentials, Jose Pimentel Arrested, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, New York News

It has taken ten years, but the New York Times has figured out that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is no friend of the media.

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Peter King's Muslim Hysteria

Wilfredo Amr Ruiz | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Islamophobia, Peter King, Islam, Latino Muslims, Terrorism, Muslim Americans, Congressman Peter King, Hispanic Muslims, Hispanic-Muslim-Identity, Nypd Demographics Unit, Timothy McVeigh, Anders Behring Breivik, Cia, Mayor Bloomberg, Wilfredo Amr Ruiz, Jose Pimentel, Religion News

Peter King's targeting of the Muslim community is wrong and should cease swiftly. His attitude damages not only the Muslim community but all minority communities.

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NYC 'Terror' Suspect Out-Geneva's Manhattan DA

Matthis Chiroux | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Iraq War, Bagram, Detention, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Jose Pimentel, Civilian Casualties, New York, Abu Ghraib, Jose Pimentel Entrapment, Jose Pimentel Arrested, Jose Pimentel Bomb, Politics News

And as long as the U.S. remains "at war" either literally or rhetorically, either directly or by proxy, we will continue to present our infrastructure as legitimate targets to our adversaries. If we want to be safe, we have to end the wars!

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The Terrorist at the Post Office

Nina Burleigh | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Nypd, Terrorism, Michael Bloomberg, Usps, Jose Pimentel, Radical Right, Grover Norquist, Jose Pimentel Bomb, Politics News

How much money might taxpayers have been saved with a referral to a mental health agency for Jose Pimentel? I can think of half a dozen other things the NYPD could be doing in Hamilton Heights on any given night than smoking dope with a self-circumciser.

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Jose Pimentel Informant Has Own Legal Woes: Attorney

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 01.23.2012

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NEW YORK — A confidential informant who helped build a terror case against a man charged with crafting homemade bombs to attack post offices and...

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Dominican Authorities Probe US Bomb Plot Suspect

AP | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Video, Nypd, Jose Pimentel Entrapment, Ray Kelly, Marijuana, Michael Bloomberg, Ny News, Jose Pimentel, Lone Wolf Terrorist, Fbi, Circumcision, New York News, Jose Pimentel Bomb, Latino Voices News

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Dominican authorities said Tuesday they are investigating the background of an immigrant accused of plotting to a...

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Terror Suspect Tried To Circumcise Himself

Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Nypd, Jose Pimentel Entrapment, Ray Kelly, Marijuana, Michael Bloomberg, Ny News, Jose Pimentel, Lone Wolf Terrorist, Fbi, Circumcision, New York News, Jose Pimentel Bomb, New York News

Jose Pimentel, the 'lone wolf' terrorist arrested for plotting to blow up police stations and postal offices with homemade bombs, smoked marijuana wit...

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The NYPD, FBI and Jose Pimentel: Something's Fishy

Danielle C. Jefferis | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Jose Pimentel, New York City Terrorism Plot, War on Terror, Terrorism, Jose Pimentel Arrested, Fbi, Nypd, Crime News

If that is enough authority for the FBI to collect massive amounts of data on religious, ethnic and national-origin characteristics of countless individuals throughout the country, why was that not enough to join and support the NYPD in its investigation of Pimentel?

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Jose Pimentel, New York Bombing Suspect, Was Frustrated By Unemployment, Mother Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Ray Sanchez | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Video, War on Terror, Bomb, Terrorism, Jose Pimentel, Bomber, New York Bomber, New York Terrorism, New York City Terrorism, Latino Voices News

NEW YORK -- The mother of the man accused of plotting to build and detonate bombs in New York said Monday that her son had grown increasingly frustrat...

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All Eyes On Hamilton Heights After Arrest Of Dominican-Born Man In Terror Plot

HuffingtonPost.com | David Ramirez | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Video, NYC Terror Plot, Dominicans, Terrorism, Jose Pimentel, Washington Heights, Dominican Terrorist, Slidepollajax, Nyc Terrorism, Jose Pimentel Arrested, Al Qaeda, Latino Voices News

Jose Pimentel, the American citizen of Dominican origin, who was arrested under the suspicion of plotting to commit a terrorist attack in New York, wa...

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FBI Declined To Pursue Man Arrested In NY Terror Plot

AP | TOM HAYS and JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 01.21.2012

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NEW YORK — The mother of a "lone wolf" accused of plotting to attack police stations and post offices with homemade bombs apologized to New York...

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Terror Suspect's Mother: 'I Didn't Raise Him That Way'

Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Mayor Michael Bloomberg, NYC Terror Plot, Ny News, Jose Pimentel, Representative Peter King, New York City Terrorism, New York News, Carmen Sosa, Jose Pimentel Arrested, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, New York News

The mother of Jose Pimentel, the alleged al-Qaida sympathizer arrested for plotting to kill US military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan ...

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Homeland Security Chair Comments On NYC Terror Plot

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 01.20.2012

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House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King (R-N.Y.) said Sunday evening that radicalized Muslim converts like Jose Pimentel, the Dominican-born U.S. ...

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'Lone Wolf' Arrested In NYC Terror Plot

AP | TOM McElroy | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Video, NYC Terror Plot, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Nypd Intelligence Unit, Nypd, Ray Kelly, Ny News, Terrorism, Jose Pimentel, New York News, Jose Pimentel Arrested, New York News

NEW YORK — An "al-Qaida sympathizer" accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as U.S. troops returning home ...

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