US Police Foil Terror Plot on Muslims

Billy86

Florida sheriff: Man planned mass shooting at Islamic center

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Authorities say a Florida resident was planning to "shoot up" a Jacksonville mosque before his arrest on Friday.

Bernandino Bolatete, 69, has been charged with possessing a silencer not registered to him, a federal crime, said Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams at a press conference Monday. Bolatete is a Philippines national who has a green card, according to federal authorities.

Williams said a confidential source informed Jacksonville detectives in November that Bolatete "had expressed a strong anti-Islam sentiment and was planning to conduct a mass shooting of individuals at the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida."

An undercover detective established a relationship with Bolatete, according to federal charging documents. The detective allegedly recorded several conversations with Bolatete, who authorities say said that he planned to be killed by police after shooting at mosque attendees from a nearby tower.

Fair play to the police for getting on top of it and preventing what could have been yet another violent terrorist attack and shooting incident in the US.

riffmongous

Wow they got lucky the source reported him

Just think, if he didn't try to purchase a silencer they might have been able to go through with it.

RustyNut

How many people will check out this thread and leave hugely disappointed?

weldoninhio

I’ve misplaced my crystal ball. Any chance we could be told what the OP is referring to?

Jimbob1977

The heading insinuates that Muslims were going to perpetrate the attack.

weldoninhio

weldoninhio wrote: »

I’ve misplaced my crystal ball. Any chance we could be told what the OP is referring to?

Have you misplaced your glasses too? Since there's the link and summary in the OP.

Billy86

riffmongous wrote: »

Wow they got lucky the source reported him

I'd imagine they would like to stay anonymous but yeah, they probably wound up saving a lot of peoples lives. Credit to them there.

suicide_circus

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

The heading insinuates that Muslims were going to perpetrate the attack.

Haha. Yeah it does.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

ANTI Muslim Terror Attack, surely?????

SuperSean11

Thank Allah

Chrongen

Billy86 wrote: »

Florida sheriff: Man planned mass shooting at Islamic center


Fair play to the police for getting on top of it and preventing what could have been yet another violent terrorist attack and shooting incident in the US.

How is it a "Muslim Terror Plot" if a guy planned to kill a bunch of Muslims?

ancapailldorcha

RustyNut wrote: »

How many people will check out this thread and leave hugely disappointed?

Such people rarely bother with details this minor.

irishrover99

Click bait

SeanW

Quinn Careful Socket wrote: »

ANTI Muslim Terror Attack, surely?????

Think the OP wrote a misleading title on purpose.

weldoninhio

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Have you misplaced your glasses too? Since there's the link and summary in the OP.

Have my glasses. I’m on my phone. There is one line in the OP, and no link.

Doltanian

Considering the terror and carnage the small minority of Muslims are commiting against the Christian Majority population of the Southern Philippines Island of Mindanao I'm not surprised to read this, he obviously took some personal grudge with him to the US.

Billy86

SeanW wrote: »

Think the OP wrote a misleading title on purpose.

Actually I posted it while doing something else and missed that, but maybe it would be best to leave it as is if for no other reason as RustyNut pointed out, than letting down the usual suspects.

weldoninhio wrote: »

Have my glasses. I’m on my phone. There is one line in the OP, and no link.

There are four paragraphs and a link, try refreshing maybe?

In case the link isn't showing on phone because it's embedded in the text - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-sheriff-man-planned-mass-shooting-at-islamic-center/

mfceiling

I said before that Muslims are going to have to be prepared for this after the attacks on the west etc. It's always the ordinary people that are going about their daily business that are attacked by these idiots.
Glad the police/security got to him before he could commit carnage.

endacl

RustyNut wrote: »

How many people will check out this thread and leave hugely disappointed?

Ah, they'll just make it about getting the dole in prison. Be grand.

biko

Good they nabbed him. Killing people is not going to make things better (for muslims or non-muslims).

Hande hoche!

Reminds me of a previous tread. https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=96982043

RobertKK

9 terror plots were foiled in the UK according to MI5.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Reminds me of a previous tread. https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=96982043

Yes, there is a definitive pattern emerging.

diomed

Ok to have a gun, but not ok to have a silencer?
That makes sense?.

Billy86

diomed wrote: »

Ok to have a gun, but not ok to have a silencer?
That makes sense?.

Might be a licencing issue? Despite what the movies show, a shot with a silencer is supposed to be audible from 2-3 rooms over, or possibly even through a solid wall (e.g. your neighbour's living room, if you live in a semi detached).

MysticMonk

Billy86 wrote: »

Might be a licencing issue? Despite what the movies show, a shot with a silencer is supposed to be audible from 2-3 rooms over, or possibly even through a solid wall (e.g. your neighbour's living room, if you live in a semi detached).

If it's properly silenced the only sound is of the moving parts going forward..unless you use supersonic ammo which will produce a sonic "crack" as the bullet leaves the muzzle.

Billy86

Quinn Careful Socket wrote: »

Yes, there is a definitive pattern emerging.

And that's only two of the foiled terror attacks on Muslims in recent times, before even getting into other Islamic centres being bombed in Minnesota, mosques being shot up in Quebec, or people being attacked and even murdered in Oregon, Washington, Kansas, etc on account of being Muslim or just being confused for them.

Good to see the police on top of things here of course, but it's just getting worse lately.

SeanW

Billy86 wrote: »

And that's only two of the foiled terror attacks on Muslims in recent times, before even getting into other Islamic centres being bombed in Minnesota, mosques being shot up in Quebec, or people being attacked and even murdered in Oregon, Washington, Kansas, etc on account of being Muslim or just being confused for them.

Good to see the police on top of things here of course, but it's just getting worse lately.

I think the poster was referring to a pattern of ambiguous and misleading thread titles ...

Billy86

And yet if it was or was not on their part, they hit upon a much more relevant to the thread talk of increased terrorist attacks against Muslims. It's a dangerous growing trend and much like Islamist terrorism it does nothing but embolden the extremists on both sides, hence the importance of the fantastic work done here by the police and the informant. Wouldn't you agree?

A Little Pony

These people are idiots and terrorists and only falling for the Islamist trap, this is what they want. You speak out against the Islamist ideology, not go and shoot normal everyday Muslims. Well done to the police.