Suspects in alleged New York bomb plot indicted

Source: CNN

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Four men were indicted Tuesday in what prosecutors said was a plot to bomb two New York City synagogues and fire surface-to-air missiles at U.S. military planes.

The defendants -- James Cromitie, 44; David Williams, 28; Onta Williams, 32; and Laguerre Payen, 27 -- were charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction within the United States, conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles and six other counts. They face a maximum penalty of life in prison. Arraignment is scheduled for Wednesday.

The plot was uncovered in a yearlong investigation involving an FBI informant. It ended with federal agents and New York police used an 18-wheel truck to block a vehicle carrying the suspects after they planted what they believed were explosive devices in cars near the synagogues, said New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. The planted devices were actually duds.

The four are accused of plotting to detonate explosives near two synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and seeking to fire missiles at planes at an Air National Guard base. Kelly described the plot as homegrown, with no known links to any foreign or domestic groups.


Three of the four suspects in the alleged synagogue bombing plot are shown after their arrests.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/02/new.york.bomb.plot.indictments/index.html

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Four people have been indicted for a plot to bomb a synagogue and a Jewish community center in New York, and to shoot down military planes.
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See prior threads:

FBI lured dimwits into terror plot
Topic started by jakeXT on May-23-09 07:48 PM (66 replies)
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Terror plotter David Williams did it for me, says sick brother Lord McWilliams
Topic started by BlueJessamine on May-25-09 09:51 AM (48 replies)
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Terrorist 'Candid Camera': Alleged wanna-be Bronx jihadists under surveillance for nearly a year
Topic started by BlueJessamine on May-23-09 09:50 AM (10 replies)
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N.Y. Bomb Suspects Said to Have No Connections to Terror Groups
Topic started by BlueJessamine on May-21-09 01:07 PM (26 replies)
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Terror from the Right: 75 Plots, Conspiracies and Racist Rampages Since Oklahoma City
Topic started by marmar on Aug-22-09 08:34 AM (9 replies)
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Robert Dreyfuss: FBI Blows It: Supposed Terror Plot Against NY Synagogues Is Bogus
Topic started by laststeamtrain on May-23-09 07:22 AM (8 replies)
Last modified by Joanne98 on May-23-09 12:13 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=450605

Where the FBI was going to sell them stingers, but they had no money?

Might be same case.

I'm looking into it.

Why am I having deja vu. This case was entrapment from the get go.

That's a bitch. No excuse to invade yet another country then. :sarcasm:

K&R