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The Times said he "made incriminating statements" to a police informant, and bought his alleged bomb-making materials "at a 99 cent store (and) Home Depot."
These are hardly places supplying materials, devices, or other implements for bombs. Everything they sell is legal. Purchases made there commit no crimes. Yet charges against him claimed he:
"possessed an explosive substance with the intent to use the same unlawfully against the person or property of another, as a CRIME OF TERRORISM, committed with intent to intimidate and coerce a civilian population, to influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion, and to affect the conduct of unit of government by murder, assassination, and kidnapping...."
All that from a five and dime and Home Depot. Maybe notices on them should say "Do Not Enter, Dangerous Bomb-Making Materials Inside."
Out of context, charges also say he maintained the trueislam1.com web site (True Islam: The Way of the Prophet). Statements in one article said, "People have to understand that America and its allies are all legitimate targets in warfare," including all facilities supporting their war-making efforts.
Saying it, of course, isn't intent to commit crimes. Pimentel maintains articles there he wrote and by others. He created it "to educate people about the True Religion of Islam as revealed to the Last prophet Muhammad(PBUH)."
On May 10, 2011, he posted John Pilger's August 30, 1998 article headlined, "The World's Worst Terrorists Are Based in Washington," saying:
"In recent years, Muslims have been the greatest sufferers from state terrorism....All, of course, are unpeople: the victims of an unerring pattern of ruthless, lawless terrorism, imperialist by nature and infinitely greater than that of any Islamic or Irish group.""It is time to stop sniggering at the distractions of this rampant power and to recognize the truth about it and to speak out."
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