The targeted Bank of America building in Oakland
From PJMedia:
A would-be Islamic terrorist tried to ignite a civil war this morning
by bombing a bank in Oakland, California, saying that “he wanted the
bank bombing to be blamed on anti-U.S. government militias”; luckily,
the FBI thwarted his plan:
A man who was hoping
to start a civil war in the United States with a terrorist attack in the Bay
Area was arrested early Friday after trying to detonate what he thought was a
car bomb at a Bank of America branch in Oakland, federal prosecutors
said.
Matthew Aaron Llaneza, 28, of San Jose was taken into custody near the bank at 303 Hegenberger Road after pressing a cell-phone trigger device that was supposed to detonate the explosives inside an SUV and bring down the building, prosecutors said.
His supposed accomplice was an undercover FBI agent who had been meeting with him since Nov. 30, according to an FBI declaration filed in federal court. The declaration said the FBI had built the purported bomb, which posed no threat to the public.
The FBI agent quoted Llaneza as saying he supports the Taliban and wants to engage in violent jihad.
Matthew Aaron Llaneza, 28, of San Jose was taken into custody near the bank at 303 Hegenberger Road after pressing a cell-phone trigger device that was supposed to detonate the explosives inside an SUV and bring down the building, prosecutors said.
His supposed accomplice was an undercover FBI agent who had been meeting with him since Nov. 30, according to an FBI declaration filed in federal court. The declaration said the FBI had built the purported bomb, which posed no threat to the public.
The FBI agent quoted Llaneza as saying he supports the Taliban and wants to engage in violent jihad.
In the Nov. 30 meeting with an agent who posed as someone connected to the Taliban in Afghanistan, Llaneza said he wanted the bank bombing to be blamed on anti-U.S. government militias, triggering a government crackdown, a right-wing response and a civil war, the FBI declaration said….
[Llaneza] laughed and hugged the undercover agent after the agent showed him the SUV in a storage unit rented by the FBI. Llaneza also stated he wanted to travel to Afghanistan so he could train Taliban fighters, according to authorities.
He's identified as a white male on his booking sheet.
Here is the official FBI press release about the incident, released a few minutes ago:
http://www.fbi.gov/sanfrancisco/press-releases/2013/federal-agents-arrest-man-after-he-attempts-to-bomb-bank-in-oakland
Criminal complaint.
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