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"....Mehanna and the co-conspirators had multiple conversations about obtaining automatic weapons (from a Mr. Maldonado, now serving a 10-year sentence for training with Al Queda in Somalia) and randomly shooting people in a shopping mall, and that the conversations went so far as to discuss the logistics of a mall attack, including coordination, weapons needed and the possibility of attacking emergency responders."
Yet no attack occurred. None, in fact, was planned or contemplated. According to FBI scoundrels, however, it was because no automatic weapons could be obtained even though legal semi-automatic ones are freely sold and illegal automatic ones easily gotten.
Eastcoastfirearms.com lists numerous ones for sale, including AK-47 (Kalashnikov) assault rifles, AR-15/M16 type rifles, Uzi assault weapons, LWRC M6A2s called the most modern carbine rifle in the world, and various others with considerable firepower.
Federal Judge Leo Sorokin ordered Mehanna held without bail pending his October 30 court appearance. In response, his attorney, JW Carney, Jr. said:
"This is the type of case that challenges our commitment and faith in the United States Constitution. Our country is respected around the world because we presume people are innocent, and we require the government to prove its allegations in open court at trial."
According to FBI authorities, Mehanna and "co-conspirators" used code words like "peanut and jelly" to mean Somalia fighting and "culinary school" for terrorist camps. In fact, whatever they likely said they meant precisely, and what proof suggests otherwise.
Prosecutors also claimed when they weren't able to join terror groups in Iraq, Yemen and Pakistan, the 2002 Washington-area sniper shootings inspired them to attack shopping malls, as well as two (unnamed) former executive branch members.
Again, no evidence proved it. Baseless charges alone were presented with plenty of theatrics to appear real.
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