American jihad wannabe indicted
File under Enemy Within:
A federal grand jury indicted a man on charges of offering to help al-Qaida blow up fuel facilities in at least three states.
Michael Curtis Reynolds was charged in U.S. District Court in Scranton Tuesday with two counts of providing material support for a terrorist organization and two counts of seeking to take part in the destruction of property used in interstate or foreign commerce.
He was already awaiting trial in the case on two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm or an explosive device.
The FBI arrested Reynolds in December after authorities said he tried to meet a purported al-Qaida contact in a sting operation about 25 miles from a motel in Pocatello, Idaho, where he had been staying.
Authorities said he expected to receive $40,000 to finance an alleged plot to blow up pipelines and refineries. The man Reynolds met with was a Montana judge who was working for the FBI.
The judge is Shannen Rossmiller–security mom-turned-Internet terrorist hunter. She’s one of my heroes. And Tigerhawk’s, too. Here’s what he wrote about her earlier this year:
Rossmiller is doing valuable work, because she is interdicting the amateur wannabes who could do serious damage without any directive from any cave. She is unlikely to capture the experienced heart of al Qaeda’s leadership — the veterans trained and trusted since those halcyon days in the Afghani training camps — but she will watch our backs for approaching yahoos.
Related: Daniel Pipes’ “What you can do to help win the war on terror”
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