They formalize charges of terrorist Dominican

A naturalized Dominican American, alleged "supporter of Al Qaeda" continued arrested yesterday after authorities accused him of terrorist plot, but his lawyer reported a record low solid and the FBI would have refused to get involved in the case for the same reason.

El Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that José Pimentel, an unemployed 27 years and converted to Islam, "anticipated use bombs against police cars, equipment for postal and military who returned from abroad".

The dominicano-estadounidense is formally charged with possession of weapons for terrorist purposes, terrorist plot, support for a terrorist act and possession of explosive substances. "Could have killed many people", said Bloomberg.

Pimentel's lawyer, Joseph Zabłocki, however, assured that the record of the accused "is much less solid it believed".

"Pimentel is very active on the Internet (but this)" u000a"is not the way in which is preparing a terrorist attack," he added. In addition, despite the fact that terrorist cases are generally dealt with by the federal authorities, "the FBI refused to get involved (in the case Pimentel) for having doubts about the case", reported the newspaper The New York Times yesterday Monday, without giving further details.

The head of the Department of police of New York, Raymond Kelly, said meanwhile that the suspect, who was guarded for two years, had made in recent months three bombs craft in his apartment.

According to Kelly, Pimentel bought the components to make explosives in several places and learned to manufacture them in a Web site of the radical cleric yemeníestadounidense Anwar al - Aulaqi, died in an American operation in September of this year.

But these pumps were not fully completed when he was arrested on Saturday, according to indictment. "He spoke of change" u000a"named after the of Osama Hussein, to honor its heroes, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein", added.

Pimentel was a "lone wolf", motivated by his hatred against us troops who invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, and inspired by the propaganda of Al Qaida, explained the Mayor.

Dominican leaders NY
several Dominican leaders of high Manhattan reacted with surprise to the arrest of a young civilian man accused of plotting a terrorist plot, and called on his community to cooperate with the police with any additional information.

Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, Adriano Espaillat, Dominican Senator and fellow Assemblyman Guillermo Linares, gave a press conference yesterday to thank the police for his work to curb terrorism.

Pimentel mother
the mother of the accused, Carmen Sosa, said yesterday at the gates of her home feel "very bad" for the detention of Pimentel and offered apologies to the u000aNew Yorkers by the actions of his son. In that regard, argued that he grew up "under the Catholic religion" and do not know "where developed that anti-American sentiment".

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FBI LO CONSIDERABA UNEBLE of objectives
after the arrest of Pimentel emerged questions about the case, then that official sources said to The Associated Press (AP) the FBI refused to intervene because it not considered it a serious matter.

Police authorities said that the federal authorities declined initially prosecute Pimentel because they considered him mentally unstable and unable to complete its objectives.

Of the New York police investigators sought to attract the attention of the FBI in the case at least twice while they investigated in secret to Pimentel, authorities said. On both occasions, the FBI had concluded that Pimentel did not constitute a serious threat, they added.

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