Flynn said in an interview Monday. Already a subscriber? Log in or link your magazine subscription. Account Profile. Sign Out. Pimentel at work on a would-be pipe bomb. Sources NYT. It was less than a week before his scheduled trial in a rare state-level terrorism case.
Prosecutors Seek To Protect Witnesses' Identities In Jose Pimentel Terrorism Trial Prosecutors want to keep testimony of three key witnesses out of public view at the trial of a New York man charged with plotting terror attacks with homemade bombs. He's facing charges including weapons possession and conspiracy as terror crimes, brought under a rarely used state terror law.
Plea Talks Afoot In Jose Pimentel Pipe Bomb Case Prosecutors and defense lawyers are in plea negotiations in a rare state-level terror case against a man charged with building a homemade bomb to try to attack soldiers, police and other government targets, both sides said Monday.
He pro-actively engaged program units, and assisted them in implementing projects in the most efficient and effective manner possible. Best of all, he was practical; he knew how to follow the spirit of a rule when, for operational imperatives, the letter of the rule had to be broken. Kosovo at the turn of the century was a watershed period for IOM, and for the people who worked there. Then police sent another informant, a fellow Hispanic Muslim convert who smoked joints with Pimentel while they talked about jihad, accompanied him to buy bomb makings and opened his apartment to Pimentel to put the materials together.
Pimentel took the plea offer to avoid the possibility of life in prison, said his lawyers. Entrapment defenses, or arguing that police induced crime, face a high legal burden. Most terrorism cases are federal, but Pimentel was charged under a New York state law passed shortly after September 11 and seldom used since. In another, the Manhattan DA charged two men with plotting to blow up synagogues.
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