Hypocrite. I like how you chastise Fox for their sensationalism while trying to gin up a controversy in your posts over "entrapment".

@extramsg Yeah! Portland Mercury fall in line with the rest of the local media and dwell on the fact that hundreds of people might have died!

This guy was a poser like the dudes in Four Lions; at least Bruce Turnidge actually made a bomb that worked

@Super Chundy: While I bow to your mucha lucha, you might want to work on your reading comprehension. My point wasn't that they should have the same opinion as other media. My point was that stylistically they're being just as sensationalistic as Fox by trying to create a bullshit story line and blowing certain aspects of the story out of proportion.

You knew the police were involved when they found a parking space on Pioneer Square during an event.

@extramsg The Merc has to get page views doesn't it? I prefer the PM's Gen Akbar take (i.e. It's a Trap!) to the O's "we're all going to die"-mongering

In related new, you better shut before I slam you with a moonsault!

I don't give two fucks that this guy was a poser or that the FBI totally took him for a walk. This asshole wanted to detonate a bomb during the tree lighting. That's fucked up! and I'd hook a car battery to his nuts.

Jacob FTW!!!!

Uh how could anyone have died? The FBI protected us from THEIR plan. This kid is clearly brainwashed, but the FBI obviously did this to take the city deemed the smartest and try to make everyone there afraid so that the liberal city of Portland may lean right in 2012. This is pathetic. Nice try authoritarians. Next time just stop the kid and don't get any headlines.

You're close, fixednews001, but it was more immediate than that. This fbi black op was supposed to force Sam Adams into kowtowing to the feds' and saltzman's trying to get Portland's resources under complete fed control with no local oversight or even information, complete surrender to fed control whenever they said so. We are fortunate to have an experienced Police Chief turned Mayor (at the time) with much well earned street cred who told the feds to take a hike. So the fbi used this kid via a Middle Eastern handler to run a "terrorist" attack on Portland. If you can talk kids into strapping on a suicide vest, how hard would it be to take over an intelligent, high valued young mind, and , especially, a young person who is grieving the "death" of his family (divorce), and who has seen, via YouTube, the kind of psychopathy we were doing to his people.

I'm an exMarine and I have experienced brainwashing meant to turn me into a professional killer and the D.I.s are amateurs compared to those 'specialists' in Mideast countries. Certainly Mr. Mohamud was the perfect profile to manipulate, but prior to the fbi corruption there is no evidence he had even fantasized ANY act here in the U.S. This is pure fbi political manipulation of Portland and Mr. Mohamud a convenient and disposable prop. We have fallen even further than we can imagine, Sir. If we do not say "NO" now, you and your children will live in a very different America from the one I grew up in. Good luck.