disturbing story today, a 21-year-old baltimore man has been arrested for allegedly planning to bomb a military recruiting station in maryland. federal agents say antonio martinez, a muslim convert who now goes by the name mohammed hussein was upset about armed forces fighting muslims overseas and plotted to blow up the armed forces career center in baltimore. now his arrest this morning came after a sting operation when he allegedly attempted to detonate an inert device that an undercover fbi agent had given him. but what really caught our eye on this story is that part of the criminal complaint against martinez, it says that last month he was seen viewing a website of a group called revolution muslim. now, we ve been monitoring this group, revolution muslim for a while now, confronting them on their extremist rhetoric. in case you haven t seen our reporting on them, revolution muslim is a radical islamic group, these are some of the members that try to recruit members right outside a
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we have virginia, oregon and now maryland. new flash points for homegrown terror plots raising the question, where is it safe any more? today a 21-year-old muslim convert a u.s. citizen is charged with trying to bomb the military recruiting station near baltimore. he was taken down by the fbi who had supplied him with a fake bomb after learning of his radical leanings online. critics argue it s entrapment but officials say the suspect didn t need any encouragement from the feds. there are four scivilians contacted by the defendant and two turned him down and one tried to talk him out of it and the third turned him in to the fbi. mike baker is a covert field officer for the cia and also with us former oklahoma governor mike keating, also a former fbi
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