The FBI arrested a Somali-born Islamic Terrorist about to attempt to detonate a bomb in a van, just 18 minutes before Portland, Oregon’s annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Pioneer Courthouse Square.

Yelling “Allahu Akbar!”[Arabic for “God is great!”],the Terrorist tried to kick agents and police after he was taken into custody, according to prosecutors.

What Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, of Corvallis, a U.S. citizen, did not know what that the supposed explosives in the van were supplied to him by FBI Operatives.

Mohamud was arrested on an accusation of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The arrest ended a long-term undercover operation, during which Mohamud had been monitored for months as his alleged bomb plot developed.

According to the FBI, the public was never in danger.

Mohamud will appear in U.S. District Court in Portland on Monday.

The FBI stated in an affidavit that the case began in August 2009 when Mohamud was e-mailing an unindicted Islamic Terrorist overseas.  In December 2009, while the unindicted Terrorist was in a frontier province of Pakistan, the two of them discussed the possibility of Mohamud traveling to Pakistan to participate in violent jihad.

The Islamic Terrorist then referred Mohamud to a second Islamic Terrorist overseas and provided him with a name and e-mail address. In the months that followed, Mohamud made several unsuccessful attempts to contact the second Terrorist.

Ultimately, an FBI undercover operative contacted Mohamud in a June 2010 e-mail, pretending to be an associate of the first unindicted Terrorist.

Mohamud and the FBI operative met in Portland a month later. Mohamud told the FBI operative that he had written articles that were published in Jihad Recollections, an online magazine that advocated holy war.

It sounds like a Hallmark moment, doesn’t it?

Mohamud also indicated he intended to become “operational”. That meant that he wanted to put an explosion together but needed help. The two got together again in August 2010 in a Portland hotel.

According to the FBI affidavit:

During this meeting, Mohamud explained how he had been thinking of committing some form of violent jihad since the age of 15. Mohamud then told (the FBI operatives) that he had identified a potential target for a bomb: the Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square on Nov. 26, 2010.

The FBI operatives even played big brother to the young Terrorist, warning Mohamud several times about how serious his planned actions were, and reminding him that there would be many people, including children, at the event. They told Mohamud that he could abandon his plans at any time with no shame.

An FBI operative asked the Islamic Terrorist:

You know there’s going to be a lot of children there? You know there are gonna be a lot of children there?

Mohamud told him that he was looking for a

huge mass that will … be attacked in their own element with their families celebrating the holidays.

According to the affidavit, Mohamud wasn’t concerned about law enforcement, explaining that

… It’s in Oregon; and Oregon, like, you know, nobody ever thinks about.

After a meeting on November 4, where they gave him the phony explosives, FBI operatives quizzed Mohamud about whether he was capable of looking at the bodies of those who would be killed in his planned Portland attack.

Mohamud reportedly told the FBI operatives:

I want whoever is attending that event to leave, to leave either dead or injured.

The religion of peace, indeed.  He evidently had not heard about the upcoming remote cameras in American cities, the airport nekkid Body Scanners, or Big Sis Napolitano and her touchy feely TSA Agents, or he would have been appropriately afraid.

While average Americans were getting scanned and groped in our airports and the FBI was thwarting a  Terror…oops…a man-caused disaster, where was the Leader of the Free World?

The guy who was supposed to be the smartest U.S. President evah, was getting his lip sewn up after playing a pick-up game of basketball. 

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs released a public statement nearly three hours after the incident.

The White House would not initially name the person who caused the injury, but later Friday indentified the elbow as belonging to Rey Decerega, director of programs for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

No, the Secret Service Agents did not tackle the offending elbow and throw it to the ground. 

Scooter received the stitches under local anesthesia in the doctor’s office on the ground floor of the White House after getting back home. Doctors used a smaller filament than usually used in these cases, which increases the number of stitches but makes a tighter stitch and leaves a smaller scar.

Y’know, it seems awfully self-centered for a President of the United States to risk his health by playing a contact sport as a hobby while serving our nation.  Why, it almost seems like he puts his own agenda above his service to America.  Hmmm.