Two Pakistan-born brothers arrested in Florida on terrorism charges
Two Pakistan-born brothers living in Florida have been arrested on charges of providing support to terrorists and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction within the United States, authorities said on Friday.
The men were charged in a grand jury indictment announced by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Federal prosecutors allege the men, both U.S. citizens, provided money, housing, communications equipment and transportation as part of a conspiracy.
A statement from prosecutors said the brothers’ alleged goal was “to use a weapon of mass destruction (explosives) against persons and property within the United States”. It did not elaborate and U.S. officials declined to go into details but said the arrests were not the result of a sting operation.
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Did they wanna target some business? Because otherwise it will be hard to classify this as workplace violence.
Valkyriepundit on December 1, 2012 at 6:38 PM
Home grown. There is NOT ONE SINGLE ASPECT OF THESE THAT IS SIMILAR TO ANY OTHER TERRORIST.
astonerii on December 1, 2012 at 6:44 PM
C’mon, Reuters.
Get with the times.
BallisticBob on December 1, 2012 at 6:48 PM
Let me guess, they are Methodists.
rbj on December 1, 2012 at 7:27 PM
Remember what “weapon of mass destruction” used to mean?
Ben Hur on December 1, 2012 at 7:54 PM
Asians?
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 1, 2012 at 8:40 PM
They were planning to bomb the neighborhood strip club because the establishment wouldn’t give them the “regulars” discount, even though they were in there five times a day.
Kenosha Kid on December 1, 2012 at 9:22 PM
Yeah…nowadays it’s used to mean anything more destructive than a pipe bomb, so I’m not quite sure how to take that.
MelonCollie on December 1, 2012 at 10:08 PM
Methodists. Obviously Methodists. Dang Methodists.
locomotivebreath1901 on December 1, 2012 at 10:13 PM
Notice how a crude explosive device is called a “weapon of mass destruction”, but Major Hassan ( screaming Alu akbar while gunning down soldiers at Fort Hood) is merely workplace violence. What a joke.
My guess is this is another FBI sting, where they pretty much give the brothers everything they need to hang themselves, and then they swoop in to the rescue.
Hill60 on December 1, 2012 at 11:22 PM
They’re the amish, I tell ya!
tommy71 on December 1, 2012 at 11:26 PM
Explosives are now a WMD? Sorry, no. Liberals dumbing down the words we use – again.
GWB on December 1, 2012 at 11:46 PM