SourceMan posts bomb instructions on Facebook, is charged in plot
FBI agents find info on his Facebook page and record his comments about bombs in a sting.
By Ely Portillo
Posted: Friday, Sep. 10, 2010
A Concord man was charged with describing how to make explosives, in an effort to bomb an abortion clinic, after FBI agents found instructions on the man's Facebook page and caught him in a sting, officials said Thursday.
Justin Carl Moose, 26, is a self-described "extremist, radical" and the "Christian counterpart of Osama bin Laden," according to an affidavit filed by FBI agents. Agents arrested Moose, who lives in a northwest Concord neighborhood, on Tuesday.
His arrest followed an investigation that began after Planned Parenthood alerted the FBI to a Facebook page registered to Moose, which the group said was advocating extreme violence against abortion providers.
Agents began monitoring the page and Moose's private messages. They say he collaborated last week with a confidential informant to plan the bombing of an abortion clinic in North Carolina.
Moose's relatives were reached by phone Thursday and declined to comment. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted on federal charges of distribution of information relating to explosives.
According to the FBI affidavit, Moose advocated violence for a variety of causes and communicated with like-minded abortion opponents online.
Moose's Facebook page, which was still public Thursday, contained posts expressing anger at abortion doctors, President Barack Obama's health care plan, and plans to build a mosque near ground zero in New York City. It also included expressions of support for those who have killed abortion providers.
"Whatever you may think about me, you're probably right," he wrote on his Facebook page, according to the affidavit.
"Extremist, Radical, Fundamentalist...? Yep! Terrorist...? Well, I prefer the term 'freedom Fighter.'"
The page also said Moose is the father of three and searching for employment.
Status updates posted beginning in January urge violence, FBI agents said in their affidavit.
"The Death Care Bill passed last night," he wrote when Obama's health care plan was approved in March. "Keep your phone and rifle close and wait."
"There are few problems in life that can't be solved with the proper application of high explosives" Moose wrote two months later.
"If a mosque is built on ground zero, it will be removed. Oklahoma City style. Tim's not the only man out there that knows how to do it," the affidavit says he wrote in July, in a reference to Timothy McVeigh, who bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City.
In August, the affidavit says, Moose posted detailed instructions for making TATP, an acronym for an explosive like that used by terrorists in the 2005 London subway bombings.
FBI agents obtained search warrants and started reading his private messages. In one sent to a fellow abortion opponent, agents say Moose wrote: "I have learned a lot from the muslim terrorists and have no problem using their tactics."
On Sept. 3, agents put their plan in motion. Their confidential source phoned Moose and told him that his best friend's wife was going to have an abortion.
FBI agents recorded the call. "Say no more," Moose said, according to the affidavit. "I understand and I can help."
On Friday, Sept. 4, the confidential source met Moose at the TGIFridays restaurant at Concord Mills, the affidavit says. There, in a conversation recorded by the FBI, Moose described several bombs the source could make in order to destroy the abortion clinic the woman was planning to use.
Moose also gave the source advice on how to conduct surveillance. He told the source to drink several beers and stagger around the clinic pretending to be drunk. If authorities confronted him, Moose explained, the man could tell them he was just looking for a place to urinate.
Finally, on Sept. 5, the confidential source called Moose again and said he had obtained the chemicals to make the explosive TATP. Moose talked him through the process of making the explosive and answered his questions, the affidavit says.
Moose was arrested two days later. A neighbor said she saw unmarked cars and FBI agents with guns drawn around the house that day.
Court records show Moose has no criminal history in North Carolina other than minor traffic charges. In 2006, a woman took out a domestic violence restraining order against him in Cabarrus County, but it was voluntarily dismissed days later. The woman declined to comment Thursday.
What a fucking douche. I'm trying to think of some commentary for this article, but I don't have anything that hasn't been posted before.
The hard-right in America appears to to be getting more deranged by the day. With all the lies, rhetoric and plan old bullshit flying around, it's only a matter of time before a moron like this guy is successful. I will bet you every dollar I have that all the Glenn Beck's of America will collectively say "That's not my fault!".
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