Court documents: Test bombing in Lincoln County (Oregon) was part of would-be bomber's preparation

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The terrorist plot to set off a van-load of explosives at Pioneer Courthouse Square on Friday took a spooky turn earlier this month, when the accused bomber joined his jihadist brothers for a trial run in rural Lincoln County.

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a 19-year-old college student, joined two men -- both, as it happens, undercover FBI employees posing as Islamic terrorists -- in a remote spot in the coastal county. There, according to the government, Mohamud used a cell phone to detonate a blue backpack full of explosives.

On the drive back to Corvallis, Mohamud and his friends talked about their forthcoming attack on Portland's square during the annual holiday tree lighting, an event that attracts thousands of revelers each year.

One of the undercover FBI operatives, wearing a body wire, asked the native-born Somalian if he could bear to look at the corpses his bombing would create. And he pointed out that the young man would see body parts and blood.

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