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unhappycamper

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Tue Jul 14, 2015, 07:32 AM Jul 2015

Feds: Terror suspect planned to kill college students, mimic Boston Marathon attack

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/07/feds_terror_suspect_planned_to_kill_college_students_mimic



In this July 26, 2012 photo provided by the Northumberland News, Alexander Ciccolo participates in a peace walk through Brighton, Ontario. Law enforcement officials say Ciccolo was arrested after his father, a Boston police captain, alerted authorities that his son was talking about joining the Islamic State group and setting off bombs.

Feds: Terror suspect planned to kill college students, mimic Boston Marathon attack
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Joe Dwinell, O’Ryan Johnson

The 23-year-old son of a Boston police captain said he wanted to execute “sinful” college students in a massacre similar to the marathon bombings — and then broadcast the carnage over the 
Internet in a sick tribute to ISIS, federal prosecutors said yesterday.

Alexander Ciccolo is the estranged son of Boston police Capt. Robert Ciccolo, who turned his son in to authorities, a law enforcement official told bostonherald.com yesterday.

Alexander Ciccolo — also known as Ali Al Amriki — lived in an apartment in the Western Massachusetts town of Adams that authorities say was filled with Molotov cocktails, guns, a pressure cooker and other explosives.

Prosecutors say the younger Ciccolo faces possession of firearms charges as part of a “plot to engage in terrorism” in a twisted allegiance to ISIS. That plan, authorities said, included “an attack” on an unnamed university in another state “using assault rifles and improvised explosives.”
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Feds: Terror suspect planned to kill college students, mimic Boston Marathon attack (Original Post) unhappycamper Jul 2015 OP
He's from Adams, MA--way, way, WAY out west. MADem Jul 2015 #1
Look at those dead eyes. What heartbreak for the Dad. merrily Jul 2015 #2

MADem

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1. He's from Adams, MA--way, way, WAY out west.
Tue Jul 14, 2015, 07:39 AM
Jul 2015

Closer to NY and VT than Boston, by far.

And he had some weird shit going on. He wanted to take over the radio/tv station and start executing people on the air. A real charmer--I think this investigation was one of the many that were being stepped up over the recent holiday. He also wanted to deploy a Tsarnaev bomb--even bought a pressure cooker at Walmart and boasted about it.

Lock him up.

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