FBI Arrests Man Who Tried to Bomb Tree-Lighting Event in Portland

Another Somali Muslim Extremist.
Another bombing plot within the United States.



Bloomberg
A man has been arrested in the U.S. in connection with an attempted plot to explode a device near a tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said.

“Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia and resident of Corvallis, Oregon, was arrested after he attempted to detonate what he believed to be an explosives-laden van that was parked near the tree lighting ceremony in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square,”the FBI said in a statement on its website today.