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Suicide Bomber Arrested Near Capitol As Iranian Ships Cross Suez

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/17/2012 15:54 -0400

It is time for the US administration to remind everyone that while every other piece of bad news may be priced into the markets in perpetuity, there is still geopolitics. Although that may also be priced in. Either way, the WSJ has just reported that "Federal agents on Friday arrested a man who they allege planned carry out a suicide bombing at the U.S. Capitol, part of a sting operation in which undercover agents posing as al Qaeda operatives provided fake explosives. The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Washington field office said the man was arrested "in the vicinity of the U.S. Capitol." It said the suspect never posed a danger to the public." Ah yes, the good old "threats are among us" gambit. And let's just go with the most trivial cliche possible. If nothing else, it sets the stage for next steps. As for what next steps may be, here is a hint, via Reuters: "Two Iranian naval ships have sailed through Egypt's Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, in a move likely to be keenly watched by Israel. "Two Iranian ships crossed through the Suez Canal (on Thursday) following permission from the Egyptian armed forces," a source in the canal authority said Friday. Two Iranian warships sailed along the strategic waterway on February 17 last year, in a move that Israel called a "provocation." Either way, Suez developments may be Israel's issue for the time being. We now apparently have our own suicide bombers to be 'very worried about.'

From the WSJ:

"The arrest was the culmination of an undercover operation during which the suspect was closely monitored by law enforcement," a Justice Department spokesman said. "Explosives the suspect allegedly sought to use in connection with the plot had been rendered inoperable by law enforcement and posed no threat to the public."

Fox News, which reported the arrest, said the suspect was arrested in an alley blocks from the Capitol building, carrying a vest that the suspect allegedly believed was packed with explosives.

Federal authorities are expected to file charges against the suspect, who wasn't identified, later Friday.

As for Iran being aggressive in the Mediterranean (by doing what the US and Israel do all the time), and cause heart palpitations in Israel, or so the media would want us to believe, here is more from Reuters:

The destroyer and a supply ship could be on their way to the Syrian coast, the source added. Iran and Syria agreed to cooperate on naval training a year ago, and Tehran has no naval agreement with any other country in the region.

Egypt's military, which has a close defense ties with the United States, has been governing the country since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak a year ago.

The Suez Canal cuts through Egypt and allows shipping to pass from the Middle East to Europe and vice versa, without going around southern Africa.

Yes America, so many deadly dangers out there. Just sit back on your comfortable lay-away couch, and be happy to enjoy that American Idol rerun. And whatever you do, don't think, or use a calculator (it's not like the US $15.4 trillion in debt even fits on a regular calculator anyway).

All that matters is that the nominal DJIA is about to pass 13k and everyone can retire rich.

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Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:11 | 2171369 RichardENixon

Even if he had succeeded we'd have 2 out of 3 branches of the government intact, and that ain't bad. (Disclosure--quote lifted from the movie Mars Attacks.)

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:13 | 2171113 walküre

Ah shucks. Nobody here at ZH believes it. Better luck next time!

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:14 | 2171119 Joe Davola

He has apparently been in the United States illegally for 12 years, officials said.

Wouldn't that have qualified him for citizenship under the proposed amnesty program?

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:20 | 2171151 walküre

Of course, he was the same guy that couldn't get his act together and blast Times Square into pieces on 12/31/1999 !!!

The same guy that couldn't destroy half the world's computers with his Y2K bugs!

He will try again, rest assured.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:24 | 2171171 grunk

He's just doing work that Americans won't do.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 18:08 | 2171585 I Got Worms

I see what you did there sir.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:15 | 2171126 TN Jed

This is madness. Why is Men's Warehouse still open when vests are obviously the problem??

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:28 | 2171187 Dr.Vannostrand

You will like the way you explode, I guarantee it.

Sat, 02/18/2012 - 01:34 | 2172394 prole

ZH posters never fail to satisfy! Tks 4 the lulz.

Since the guy was working for the feds does he get a pension and a GS number?

GS 13 Patsy? maybe... What's the salary?

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:29 | 2171807 CrockettAlmanac.com

Rick Santorum's wardrobe is really starting to scare me.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:18 | 2171141 Nothing To See Here

False flag confirmed. The guy actually only let go a fart near the Capitol, but since it happened close to a welder who had his torch on, they arrested the poor guy on suicide bombing attempt charges. And thanks to the NDAA, he's now somwhere in a gulag.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:39 | 2171221 azzhatter

I think Barney Frank was charged with this once

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:18 | 2171142 roadhazard

Oh look, fake terrorist story #6 ...or is it 7. Got to justify those Homeland Security billion$ somehow.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:27 | 2171182 marcusfenix

it's like they don't even try to be original anymore, i don't think they even care if people believe them or not.

damn DC, this well just never, ever runs dry does it?

suicide bomber...yeah

undercover agents...uh huh

fake explosives...right

you know, I kind of miss those color coded terror alerts...

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:32 | 2171813 CrockettAlmanac.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmsrO8xpe-w

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:28 | 2171185 willien1derland

Well, let's send Goldman Sachs to open an Iranian 'Investment banking' business & within a couple of years Goldman Sachs will destroy the integrity of their financial system as well...True Financial Terrorists...

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:30 | 2171190 tony bonn

if this wasn't another fake cia / fbi plot to justify the nazi patriot act and the trillions spent on the nazi police state then i will eat a 10 gallon hat full of elephant shit...

this was a public demonstration of ndaa....watch the guy shipped off to guantanamo and summarily executed.....

fuck you obama....

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 20:57 | 2171982 Henry Chinaski

Gitmo ain't happening. The dude isn't an American citizen.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:31 | 2171193 Coffin Dodger

Incidentally, Iran is abso-fucking-lutely desperate to get a civilian nuclear power station in place for one reason and one reason alone - so that external warmongers will be unable to attack them.

It's their magic shield.

No country with nuke power stations can suffer the kind of 'war' seen in Afghan, Iraq, Syria, Egypt etc, full stop.

Nuke power stations = no invasion. The best defence yet.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:03 | 2171328 zerozulu

Does any one has any idea where was Ahmadinejad for the last three days?

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 20:29 | 2171923 DollarMenu

Maybe here?

Pakistan allies with Iran against UShttp://rt.com/s/css/img/crumbs_last.gif); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; width: 18px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"> http://rt.com/news/pakistan-support-iran-us-attack-593/

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:40 | 2171204 Mr Lennon Hendrix

The FBI finds the patsy, supplies him with the means, and then captures him. The Police State too is a ponzi. LOL

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:36 | 2171208 Dre4dwolf

So the FBI fakes a terrorist attack, then arrests the pawn.

Now we can all rest assured that if there are any fake terrorists out there! they will be brought to justice! :P fucking joke.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:37 | 2171211 Benjamin Glutton

I guess the FLOTUS won't be channeling her inner Wall Mart greeter again anytime soon.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:37 | 2171212 azzhatter

Even if the bomber's name is Jack Smith he will mysteriously become an Iranian

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:37 | 2171215 user2011

Without the need to reading the article, I know it must be another entrapment. It's time to show the world that FBI and homeland securities are earning their pay checks.

I bet they literally brainwash the guy into committing something. And they provide the guy with some sausages and make him to believe they are explosives.

Time to give our law enforcement a pad at the back, good job in stuffing the sausages.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:40 | 2171227 zilverreiger

"part of a sting operation in which undercover agents posing as al Qaeda operatives provided fake explosives."

FAIL

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:42 | 2171234 madmax1965

Received this yesterday, interesting read!

Will it ever happen? Not likely!

Celente Solution: How Iran Can Have Nuclear
Power and The World Can Have Peace

KINGSTON, NY, 16 February 2012 — Once again, the world teeters on the edge of war. Once again, the conflict is in the Middle East. Once again, the conflict is over energy.

For years, Iran has been developing nuclear power. For years, the world has disbelieved Iran’s claims that its atomic energy would be only for peaceful, domestic uses.

The United States, Israel, the EU and other nations contend that Tehran is lying, and have imposed crippling sanctions on Iran. These embargoes now increasingly deny food and other staples to the Iranian people while costing companies around the world customers and markets.

On February 14th, the sanctions tightened: owners of more than 100 oil supertankers announced that they would no longer load crude from Iran’s oilfields, cutting off the country’s only meaningful source of income.

A day later, Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, visited the Tehran Nuclear Research Center to witness the loading of the first domestically-made uranium fuel rods in a reactor that the country claims will be used solely for medical purposes.

The conflict is careening beyond control. In 2009, Iran lost the use of hundreds of centrifuges – devices that spin on an axis like the hubs of a wagon wheel and use centripetal force to separate things, including the isotopes of uranium. In June 2010, it was discovered that the problem was due to the infamous Stuxnet computer worm, which had damaged the centrifuges by causing them to spin suddenly at wildly varying speeds.

A year later, an explosion at an Iranian military base reportedly damaged a facility where Iran was developing long-range missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads. In the past two years, four Iranian nuclear scientists have been murdered – one just last month on the streets of Tehran. Iran blames the sabotage and murders on Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, and the CIA.

In what are now being termed revenge attacks, Thai authorities charge two Iranians with a series of bombings in Thailand this week and Thai investigators claim possible links between these attacks and the attempted murder of Israeli officials in India. And, Israel has also accused Iran of planting a car bomb (that was defused) in an Israeli embassy vehicle this week in the European country of Georgia.

Meanwhile, the US military has held a series of press conferences and are hosting mainstream media reporters on navy warships patrolling the Persian Gulf. All of the war drum beating, assassinations and sanctions are made under the pretext of Iran’s alleged intention to use their quest for nuclear power as a cover for the building of nuclear weapons.

The Celente Solution: If Iran is sincere that it seeks only peaceful uses for its nuclear energy, the crisis can easily be defused.

The problem isn’t that Iran seeks nuclear power. The problem is that, like the rest of the world, Iran has made a poor choice of nuclear fuel.

Uranium, the fuel that runs the world’s nuclear reactors, is lethal even when it’s not packed in a bomb. It’s absurdly complicated to handle, its behavior is touchy and unpredictable, and its waste is fatal to humans for millions of years after we’ve wrung the small amount of energy from it that our technology allows.

Instead, Iran can follow the lead of China, India, Brazil, and other nations and turn to thorium.

Thorium is an obscure, mildly radioactive metal produced as a waste product from the mining of rare earth minerals. This waste sits in piles on the ground in China, which produces most of the world’s rare earths; it’s locked away underground in most other countries, which have followed the US’s lead in banning the mining of rare earths because the process produces radioactive waste – in the form of thorium.

Yet when thorium was tested as a nuclear fuel in the 1950s, it was found to be both cleaner and safer than uranium. It can’t melt down or spontaneously explode when a “critical mass” of it is piled up; and it produces mainly alpha radiation, which is so weak that it can’t penetrate skin. Although thorium does produce a trace of radioactive waste that endures for billions of years, the amount is vastly smaller than uranium’s leavings.

Thorium also is more easily accessible around the world than uranium and more plentiful – it’s about three times as abundant as tin. In theory, a lump of thorium the size of a golf ball could supply the lifetime energy needs of a typical American – and more than that of an Iranian.

Even better, the technology to produce thorium is close at hand. International Thorium Energy & Molten Salt Technology, Inc., a private Japanese firm, intends to produce a 10-kilowatt thorium reactor within five years. China and India also are engineering thorium reactors. With some re-engineering, thorium even can be combined with uranium to make cleaner, longer-lived fuel rods for conventional nuclear reactors already in service.

In the years it would take Iran to build a conventional nuclear reactor, with its hundred-foot cooling towers and thousands of miles of plumbing, the nation could make a factory to turn out small thorium reactors. Iran has modest rare earth deposits and China, as Iran’s largest trading partner, could easily supply the reactors’ fuel. China and also India could share their growing technical expertise with Iran, not over international objections but with the approval of the rest of the world.

These small generators would present no regional or global threat and would serve Iran’s internal needs even more effectively than its current plan: the smaller thorium reactors can be made relatively quickly, with consistent quality, in a factory and then shipped and installed right where power is needed – at a factory, a mine, a military base, or as an incremental addition to a conventional generating plan. Iran could quickly achieve a strategic goal of western nations: the simultaneous expansion and decentralization of the electrical grid.

As is often the case, the current crisis is an opportunity. If Iran truly wants only peaceful nuclear power, it can choose thorium as its nuclear option … and the US, Israel, the EU and other nations can choose peace.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:31 | 2171454 Schmuck Raker

The first 6-7 minutes of this video provides a very good overview of the history, physics, and advantages of Thorium reactors.

Not only should Iran be looking into this, every nation should.

Kirk Sorensen @ MRU on LFTR - Liquid Fluoride ... - YouTube

Watch a bit, I don't think you'll be sorry.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:27 | 2171798 madmax1965

Thanks for the link! Looks like as usual, TPTB chose poorly!

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 23:08 | 2172216 Think for yourself

It was not "poorly". Uranium-based fission methods were chosen specifically for the need to attain a large inventory of weapons-grade material.
Don't blindly assign to incompetence what is much more logically assigned to malice.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:42 | 2171236 americanspirit

Man arrested for planning a suicide bombing of the Congress. Absolutely shocking. Thank God there is only one such nut case in this country.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:43 | 2171238 paint it red ca...

Another case of the foolishly willing, recruited by the wiley, to do the dirty work of the cunning in support of the screwing.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:45 | 2171241 aerial view

The way things are going in this country, the FBI may be the only one left to buy explosives from-fake or not!.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:45 | 2171244 pods

Pull the other one!

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:51 | 2171258 Wtfcity

Not this bs again! Why is it every terrorist they arrest has been given explosives by the feds. Maybe because the only people they can catch are the ones they pay to blow something up and give them the fake explosives. What a bunch of ass clowns!

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:55 | 2171274 Strelok

(it's not like the US $15.4 trillion in debt even fits on a regular calculator anyway).

Yea, you'll need a calculator capable of scientific notation...

1.54 x 10^13 After all, we are talking about astronomical numbers here.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:55 | 2171278 MrTown3

Just think how high unemployment would be without "terrorism"...

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 21:11 | 2172005 ThisIsBob

... or the war on drugs, a major American industry.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:56 | 2171284 SunnyDD

Come on, skip the opening.

Just get to the main game.

I'm for OIL for so long.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:58 | 2171299 BlackholeDivestment

...what, Chairsatan and the Suicide Vampire Squid of the Great Wal Mart of China inspired a Moroccan kid to join them at a Hearing on the Hill with their FBI escort?

...eh, who's budget just went up?

Kid was what? 17? ...when he came here and now he's 29? BULLSHIT! How much effort was put into helping the kid not to become a headline?

Give me a NDAA day inside the FBI ...and a Dentist Chair with tools and I'll find out, right? LMAO.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:01 | 2171314 Schmuck Raker

The poor dumb bastard, I hope he gets pardoned.

Let's face it, he wasn't the only one driven to desperation at the news of Whitney's death.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:01 | 2171319 mc_LDN

Is it just me or has Mossad gone nuclear with the terrorism s*** ?!! Like everyone is trying to blow themselves up like its in fashion or something,

ISRAEL, F*** YEAH!!! .... Sigh. Mentallists of the highest order.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:05 | 2171333 omi

In frantic panic trying to justify their jobs/budget, military brass has confirmed that the concept of buoyancy works in the area of Straight of Hormuz. However, more funding is needed to determine if the concept is applicable universally.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:11 | 2171371 MountainMan

Take your long positions now boys....CL to gap up Sunday night....$110 here we come!

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:15 | 2171382 MountainMan

Black gold, bitchez.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:25 | 2171433 nyse

Sure.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:32 | 2171460 zapdude

This is almost as laughable as the supposed Iranian assasination attempt on Saudi ambassadors on US soil using Mexian Drug Cartels.

And we all remember the 1993 WTC bombing -- the patsy got scared and refused to park the van loaded with explosives where the FBI agents told him to park it. Had he parked it where they told him to, one building would've smashed into the other and both could have presumably collapsed. What was the FBI's excuse when they got caught up in the aftermath??? It was a "failed sting operation".

And how did the underwear bomber get on the plane without a passport? How did WTC building 7 collapse on 9/11, let alone WTC 1, 2, the Pentagon and Shanksville PA?

The list goes on and on -- this script has been played out dozens of times.

How stupid, apathetic, asleep are the American people?

How outrageous and blatant must it get for us to rise up?

I fear we never will...

Sat, 02/18/2012 - 00:29 | 2172336 digalert

Let's not forget our racist AG Holder was in Oklahoma where they (FEDs & McVeigh) blew up their own building.

then Clinton Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder authorized members of the FBI to provide explosives to Oklahoma City bombing criminals

http://www.coachisright.com/ag-eric-holder-responsible-for-168-deaths-in...

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:34 | 2171465 zerozulu

New development in this case is that suicide bomber was not caught at the airport.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:43 | 2171506 mvsjcl

Why this headline?

Iran is nothing, just a bunch of people who want to be left alone. Until they're reminded that they're not so alone.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 17:58 | 2171555 sabra1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRItO4rRFlw&feature=player_embedded

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:07 | 2171753 ThisIsBob

These guys don't seem to get anywhere without help from the FBI.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:19 | 2171779 AUD

We melt you with acid rain...

Keep you poor for economic gain...

Convince you your biggest threat...

Is drugs & terrorists!

They don't even have to be real...

Find a face, make up a crime...

Run sensational headlines...

Works every time!!

Jello Biafra, 1991

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:44 | 2171839 fuu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USXtyez69qo

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:39 | 2171824 Problem Is

Can You Say: FBI Patsy?

Allegedly trying to bomb the capital?

Allegedly trying to bomb CONgress?

It's probably one of us with a beard and a tan...

Speaking gibberish that sounds like Arabic because we are mocking Cramer the Clown from watching too much CNBC...

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 20:25 | 2171916 q99x2

At least the FBI gave the guy fake explosives this time.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 23:12 | 2172221 BlackholeDivestment

...LMAO.That was funny Q99x2, thanks for that one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCvggUgCnTs

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 23:27 | 2172252 SpiritBlade

well cant say we didnt see this coming. we knew the false flag phoney attacks would be starting to justify more hitlerian legislation and add justification to continued aggression against the arab states.

More fake attacks set up by the FBI with semi retarded patsies.

Well we better go ahead and finish evicerating the Constitution now so we can all be safe. Hopefull when chaos and anarchy break out in the States they can roll out some of the 16 trillion they stole and offer utopia for all.

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 23:39 | 2172278 ChacoFunFact

here is the real threat:

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/iran-s-female-ninjas-1329496903-slideshow/#crsl=%252Fphotos%252Firan-s-female-ninjas-1329496903-slideshow%252Fninjutsu-practitioner-participates-sword-drill-members-various-ninjutsu-photo-211321868.html

Sat, 02/18/2012 - 06:57 | 2172596 theprofromdover

I think the CIA need to bring in Quentin Tarantino and the Weinstein brothers to sort out these scripts. These are so poor, they would go straight to rental.

They gave the guy the vest, the dummy explosives, dropped him off in the alley, and then arrested him?

Naw.

Sat, 02/18/2012 - 12:59 | 2172922 dizzyfingers

"sit back on your comfortable lay-away couch, and be happy to enjoy that American Idol rerun. And whatever you do, don't think, or use a calculator (it's not like the US $15.4 trillion in debt even fits on a regular calculator anyway)"

Glad I'm not the only one having these thoughts.

Sat, 02/18/2012 - 14:07 | 2173099 dizzyfingers

" Man arrested for planning a suicide bombing of the Congress. Absolutely shocking. Thank God there is only one such nut case in this country."

They've figured it out.

Wed, 02/22/2012 - 05:01 | 2184055 sikefeier0728