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  • Feds: Somali-born teen plotted car-bombing in Oregon

    NEDRA PICKLER WILLIAM McCALL Associated Press

    Feds: Somali-born teen plotted car-bombing in Ore. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal agents in a sting operation arrested a Somali-born teenager just as he tried blowing up a van he believed was loaded with explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, authorities said. The bomb was an elaborate fake supplied by the agents and the public was never in danger, authorities said. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. Friday just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would set off the b...

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