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A 22-year-old Lebanese man was arrested by the FBI for attempting to detonate in improvised explosive device left in a trash can near Chicago's Wrigley Field during a Dave Matthew's Band concert. Some have dubbed the attack a Jihadist plot, and an act of a lone wolf terrorist. But Sami Samir Hassoun did not act alone. His terror cell consisted of two undercover FBI agents posing as financiers, and long time friend who turned out to be an FBI informant. In fact the FBI were the ones who gave him the bomb, and paid him to deliver it.

Feds supplied 19 year old Somali with a fake bomb and quickly arrested him when he tried to use it at a busy tree lighting ceremony in Portland, OR.

THE United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years — or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol; a scheme to bomb synagogues and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft was developed by men in Newburgh, N.Y.; and a fanciful idea to fly explosive-laden model planes into the Pentagon and the Capitol was hatched in Massachusetts.

San Jose, CA man tried to spark U.S. civil war! He wanted to bomb The Federal Reserve in SF but instead left car-bomb at Oakland BofA. He was working with (for?) an fbi agent and was allegedly (wink) on legal and illegal drugs and bipolar.

At first, it looked like Quazi Nafis, the man accused of plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve in New York, had only the help of the FBI in allegedly delivering a van full of what he thought were explosives to the door of the downtown building. But on Thursday authorities said he had an accomplice, who also just happens to be an alleged child pornography fan. There are some legitimate questions to ask about the ethics of helping someone hatch a terrorist plot just to bust him for it, as apparently happened with Nafis.

A child's toy sparked a bomb scare late Tuesday morning. The Orange County Bomb Squad was on scene investigating a suspicious device (a toy pony). To be safe, they decided to detonate an explosive device next to the toy pony, blowing it to kingdom come.

A mohawk-wearing anarchist nicknamed "Cyco" was among five men arrested after allegedly conspiring to blow up a bridge about 15 miles south of Cleveland, the FBI said Tuesday. The men were arrested Monday evening in an FBI sting, but posed no real danger to the public because the explosives were inert and were controlled by an undercover FBI agent, the bureau said in a statement. This is another one of those supposed plots that the FBI has helped create over the past couple of years.

Wednesday's arrest was similar to other cases in which reputed would-be terrorists were caught in sting operations that revolved around fictional plots against various targets, such as Dallas skyscapers or a Chicago nightclub. In this case, though, authorities say Ferdaus planned the scheme.

In 2005, leaders in Portland, Oregon voted not to allow city law enforcement officers to participate in a key anti-terror initiative, the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. On Friday, that task force helped prevent what could have been a horrific terrorist attack in Portland. Now city officials say they might re-think their participation in the task force.

Step 1) The city opted out of the JTTF. Step 2) The JTTF instigated a bomb plot with a useful idiot. Step 3) City thinks about opting into the JTTF.

Nice.