Bob Hennelly
WNYC's Bob Hennelly is an award-winning investigative journalist. While at WNYC he has reported on a wide gamut of major public policy questions ranging from immigration and homeland security to power outages and utility mergers.
Bomb Plot Suspects Arraigned
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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Three of the four suspects alleged to have plotted to blow up two Riverdale synagogues and shoot down military planes based at Stewart Airport have been arraigned in federal court in White Plains.
At the arraignment, Assistant US Attorney Eric Snyder described the suspects as "extremely violent men who easily embraced terrorism." The alleged ring leader and high school dropout, 55-year-old James Cromitie, told US Magistrate Lisa Smith that he had smoked pot yesterday but could still understand the proceedings. All three men who appeared before the judge said they were U.S. citizens and needed the court to provide them with Legal Aid lawyers. The trio was sent to the Westchester County Penitentiary and are scheduled back in court June 5th. The fourth suspect Laguerre Payen, who is believed to be a Hatian national, will be arraigned later this afternoon.
Comments [3]
This whole episode stinks... and I'm not just talking about the bottles of urine one of the accused is reported to have stored at his domicile.
You wonder why you have difficulty securing donations when you have a commentator interviewing an ex NY Police officer on entrapment, specifically leading that person into acknowledging entrapment. No wonder the intelligent right cannot stand Public Radio!
It more than smells of entrapment, but worse, it's a plot hatched by the FBI and foisted upon mentally ill and ignorant men whose state of mind is a product of the prison system. One wonders where the plot began and how much the FBI sustained and encouraged it. The media have a responsibility to question the powers that be.
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