FBI caught Ohioan planning terror attack for July 4

[Skywatcher]

Demetrius Pitts, aka Abdur Raheem Rahfeeq, charged in Cleveland bomb plot after FBI sting; there’s no indication the Ohio man could have carried off an attack himself.

Lone loon or part of something bigger?

[Quartz]

He was certainly clever enough to compartmentalise. He didn’t want to know any of the other conspirators.

[Sicks_Ate]

@Skywatcher

Demetrius Pitts, aka Abdur Raheem Rahfeeq, charged in Cleveland bomb plot after FBI sting; there’s no indication the Ohio man could have carried off an attack himself.

Lone loon or part of something bigger?

I’m going to go with ‘loon’, but I’m also going to add ‘and more or less goaded in to it by an FBI agent.’

[HurricaneDitka]

While I don’t have any great sympathy for Mr. Pitts, it seems more likely that he was acting alone.

Sicks Ate post reminds me of a joke I’ve heard over the years:

Q: How do you know who the undercover Fed in your group is?

A: He’s the guy that always wants to blow stuff up.

[snfaulkner]

@HurricaneDitka

While I don’t have any great sympathy for Mr. Pitts, it seems more likely that he was acting alone.

Sicks Ate post reminds me of a joke I’ve heard over the years:

Q: How do you know who the undercover Fed in your group is?

A: He’s the guy that always wants to blow stuff up.

Who do you hang around with that this joke comes up over the years?

[HurricaneDitka]

@snfaulkner

Who do you hang around with that this joke comes up over the years?

The last couple times I read variations of it were on AR15.com. Then again, there are probably enough Feds posting there that there’s a decent chance the person telling the joke was a Fed himself.