Cleveland man pleads guilty in bridge-bombing plot

[arely staircase]

AKRON, Ohio — One of five men accused of attempting to blow up the Ohio 82 bridge in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park pleaded guilty Wednesday and agreed to cooperate in the prosecution of his four former co-defendants...
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The five men, described by federal prosecutors as domestic terrorists, are accused of planting what they believed to be actual bombs at the Ohio 82 bridge that spans the national park between Brecksville and Sagamore Hills Township.

FBI agents reported that they foiled the plot with the help of an informant by supplying the men with fake plastic explosives and arresting the five on April 30 as they tried to detonate the explosives with a cellphone.
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The defense attorneys for the remaining four defendants said they will attempt to prove at trial that the FBI and a paid informant entrapped the men in the bridge-bombing plot. The lawyers have asked the judge to order prosecutors to turn over internal FBI emails and other evidence in an attempt to attack the credibility of the informant and the techniques that the FBI used.

"We believe the FBI agents violated their internal rules regarding their handling of the informant and what they instructed him to do," said John Pyle, defense attorney for Baxter. "This is information we need to have."

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/07/cleveland_man_pleads_guilty_in.html

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. If you are a part of a social or political movement and =anyone= asks you to be violent,

walk away.

[arely staircase]

2. good advice (so good it shouldn't have to be said.)

on the one hand i wonder if these guys would have gotten involved in something so stupid if it hadn't been for the feds encouraging them.

on the other hand, if they really did try to detonate what they thought was a bomb, i don't have much sympathy.

[leftyohiolib]

3. radicals without a cause just needed a fuse

and the feds provided them with one. these clowns couldnt work a potato gun