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    US citizen planned to blow up Pentagon with remote controlled planes

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    A Massachusetts man was arrested Wednesday and accused of plotting an assault on the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol using remote-controlled aircraft armed with explosives — the latest of several terrorism cases to spring from federal sting operations.

    Rezwan Ferdaus was arrested in Framingham after undercover federal agents delivered materials he had allegedly requested, including grenades, six machine guns and what he believed was 24 pounds of C-4 explosive. Federal officials said the public was never in danger from the explosives, which it said were always under control and closely monitored.

    According to a federal affidavit, Ferdaus, 26, of Ashland, became convinced America was evil through jihadi websites and videos, and began planning "jihad" against the U.S. in early 2010. He contacted a federal informant that December and months later, allegedly began meeting to discuss the plot with undercover federal agents he believed were members of al-Qaida.

    Ferdaus said he wanted to deal a psychological blow to the "enemies of Allah" by hitting the Pentagon, which he called "head and heart of the snake," according to the affidavit.

    "Allah has given us the privilege," he allegedly told the informant. "... He punishes them by our hand. We're the ones."

    Ferdaus, a U.S. citizen who graduated from Northeastern University with a bachelor's degree in physics, made a brief initial appearance Wednesday in federal court on charges of attempting to destroy federal buildings and providing support to a foreign terrorist organization, in this case al-Qaida. A detention hearing was scheduled for Monday.

    The planes, guided by GPS and capable of speeds greater than 100 mph, would hit the Pentagon and blow the Capitol dome to "smithereens," according to Ferdaus' plan, detailed in the affidavit. Ferdaus then planned a follow-up automatic weapons attack with six people divided into two teams, according to the affidavit.

    At one point, according to recorded conversation detailed in the affidavit, Ferdaus told undercover agents that his desire to attack the United States was so strong, "I just can't stop. There is no other choice for me."

    Prosecutors also accuse Ferdaus of supplying the undercover agents with cellphone devices he said could be used to remotely detonate explosives. When the undercover agents falsely told him the devices had been used to kill three U.S. soldiers in Iraq, he allegedly became visibly excited and said he felt "incredible. ... We're changing the world."

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    Weak mind-minded people FTL?

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    I am going to play devils advocate here and say how come its perfectly acceptable to Americans for America to invade/terrorize/back terrorist regime in a foreign nation but when they do it to us we are incensed and disgusted. maybe if we quit doing it to other people they would stop doing it to us. Just a thought ya know... think of how great this world would ben today if America had not have in some way backed Saddam, Osama, Pinochet and so on.......

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    I am going to play devils advocate here and say how come its perfectly acceptable to Americans for America to invade/terrorize/back terrorist regime in a foreign nation but when they do it to us we are incensed and disgusted. maybe if we quit doing it to other people they would stop doing it to us. Just a thought ya know... think of how great this world would ben today if America had not have in some way backed Saddam, Osama, Pinochet and so on.......

    it's easy to look back and say we shouldn't have done this or that. But keeping our hands out of everything, while it is what the world claims they want, isn't good. Should we have stayed out of the first gulf war? Should we have stayed out of WWII?

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    it's easy to look back and say we shouldn't have done this or that. But keeping our hands out of everything, while it is what the world claims they want, isn't good. Should we have stayed out of the first gulf war? Should we have stayed out of WWII?

    If America has have cared about the all the lives the Nazi's were taking they would have intervened earlier and helped stop it quicker but no they chose to ignore the atrocities for almost 5 years, as for the first gulf war we should have left them to fight it out amongst themselves as they have been doing for thousands of years, we just had to interfere because of oil greed. We need to forget the rest of the world exists and focus on America and our own issues. Then once thats done, focus on helping our neighbors to the north and south showing them we are decent folk, then with their help spread it further and further. Become what the world once loved and admired not what they see as a crumbling cesspool of ignorance and threats.

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    Weak mind-minded people FTL?

    "Religion of peace" FTW.

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    I am going to play devils advocate here and say how come its perfectly acceptable to Americans for America to invade/terrorize/back terrorist regime in a foreign nation but when they do it to us we are incensed and disgusted. maybe if we quit doing it to other people they would stop doing it to us. Just a thought ya know... think of how great this world would ben today if America had not have in some way backed Saddam, Osama, Pinochet and so on.......


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    I am going to play devils advocate here and say how come its perfectly acceptable to Americans for America to invade/terrorize/back terrorist regime in a foreign nation but when they do it to us we are incensed and disgusted. maybe if we quit doing it to other people they would stop doing it to us. Just a thought ya know... think of how great this world would ben today if America had not have in some way backed Saddam, Osama, Pinochet and so on.......

    It's all a matter of perspective. Unfortunately the majority of humans see a "black and white, good and evil" world. The reality however remains that the world is actually a very grey place.

    Let the bible-thumping begin!!

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    There's an old saying that goes something like this. One man's terrorist is another man's hero.

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    it's all a matter of perspective. Unfortunately the majority of humans see a "black and white, good and evil" world. The reality however remains that the world is actually a very grey place.

    Let the bible-thumping begin!!

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