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Homegrown Terror: The FBI has arrested yet another American Muslim for plotting to kill fellow citizens in the name of Islam. Why is the U.S. Muslim community so uniquely susceptible to violence?

According to a federal affidavit, Sami Osmakac, a 25-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen, planned to use car bombs to blow up Tampa nightclubs, bridges and even a police station. He was arrested over the weekend.

Osmakac said he wanted to instill "more terror" in the hearts of "kaffirs," or infidels, as "payback" for wrongs done to Muslims. His chilling plan, the FBI says, was to detonate a bomb at a popular Irish pub "where it gets real crowded," and then hit another target several hours later.

He tried to obtain from an undercover FBI agent a 100-pound explosive that he thought was big enough to "take down buildings" and "kill people inside." He ordered it packed with marbles, BBs and other projectiles to "rip flesh."

Osmakac figured such horrific retail terrorism would also blow a huge new hole in the federal budget as Homeland Security shifted assets to protecting and hardening commercial targets.

"After all this money they're spending for homeland security, this is gonna be crushing them," he was recorded as saying.

Osmakac also planned to use automatic weapons to take hostages and use them to pressure the release of al-Qaida prisoners. He tried to obtain a suicide belt, which he planned to detonate as police closed in on him.

"They can take me in 5 million pieces," he allegedly said. "We all have to die, so why not die the Islamic way?"

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The FBI seized a martyrdom video he made, in which he explained why he planned to kill so many innocent fellow Americans. He claimed Muslim "blood" was more valuable than that of non-Muslims.

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Terror Plot In Tampa; CAIR Defends Suspect

 

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Executive Director of CAIR San Francisco Zahra Billoo was quick to paint the arrest as a scam, stating that she was “wondering how much of the thwarted terror plot in Florida was seeded by the FBI, [a]ppreciating that even the MSM mentioned the informants.” Dawud Walid, Executive Director of CAIR-Michigan, released a tweetsaying, “it is not the job of civil rights groups to be commending the FBI on their use of informants, given the FBI’s history.”

 

The Director of CAIR’s Florida chapter, Hassan Shibley, gave a more lukewarm and confusing response to news of the arrest. Although he stated that Osmakac “was no friend or supporter of the Muslim community” and that the Muslim community had played a “vital role” in his arrest, he also expressed “concern about a perception of entrapment.”

 

“The weapons and explosives were provided by the government. Was he just a troubled individual, or did he pose a real threat?” said Shibly to the press this morning. As the day progressed, he was quoted casting additional mistrust of the government’s intentions. “I think the fear at the point is that he was just mentally disturbed…I think that community members hoped that by reporting him, he could get the proper assistance,” Shibly explained to MyFoxTampaBay.

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