Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Teen arrested in Oregon car bomb plot led 2 lives

Teen arrested in Oregon car bomb plot led 2 lives

8:09 PM / Posted by Megaan /

http://news-updations.blogspot.com/
The plot explained by the FBI was horrific: a 19-year-old Somali-born Muslim with a complaint against the West, prepared to kill and maim thousands at a busy Portland Christmas tree illumination ritual.

Except while the FBI describes Mohamed Osman Mohamud as a would-be terrorist, there were few hints of that unseen life to Mohamud's friends, who knew him as "Mo," a quiet, inhabited teen who liked to drink gin and play video games.

The teen who supposedly thought he was going to kill thousands of people the day after Thanksgiving in the name of Islamic extremism is the same one who, three days previous, wrote and read a Kwanzaa verse about unity with two Christian college students.

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