Thursday, August 24, 2006
Homegrown terrorist, Qaeda link, foiled in Spokane.
Getting mighty close to home.
An anti-terrorism task force is investigating a man's reported jailhouse claims of ties to al-Qaida and a plan to blow up a state Department of Social and Health Services building.
While in the Spokane County Jail earlier this month, the 18-year-old reportedly told fellow inmates that he also intended to set off a bomb at the upcoming Pig Out in the Park event and set off a second device when police responded, authorities said Wednesday.
Evidence recovered so far after three search warrants were served includes two loaded ammunition clips for an AK-47 semiautomatic rifle and a laptop computer reportedly containing an al-Qaida training manual, said Norm Brown, a spokesman for the Inland Northwest Joint Terrorism Task Force, which is investigating the case.
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Investigators took the threats seriously because the man has traveled to Morocco twice in the last two years, Brown said.
His name, not given in this online article, is Anthony Garvey. The FBI has managed to hold him in the local insane asylum for 90 days on some sort of committment, which strikes me as a smart move.
More detail here. ¶ 8:44 AM
An anti-terrorism task force is investigating a man's reported jailhouse claims of ties to al-Qaida and a plan to blow up a state Department of Social and Health Services building.
While in the Spokane County Jail earlier this month, the 18-year-old reportedly told fellow inmates that he also intended to set off a bomb at the upcoming Pig Out in the Park event and set off a second device when police responded, authorities said Wednesday.
Evidence recovered so far after three search warrants were served includes two loaded ammunition clips for an AK-47 semiautomatic rifle and a laptop computer reportedly containing an al-Qaida training manual, said Norm Brown, a spokesman for the Inland Northwest Joint Terrorism Task Force, which is investigating the case.
...
Investigators took the threats seriously because the man has traveled to Morocco twice in the last two years, Brown said.
His name, not given in this online article, is Anthony Garvey. The FBI has managed to hold him in the local insane asylum for 90 days on some sort of committment, which strikes me as a smart move.
More detail here. ¶ 8:44 AM
