very careful. we can t assume that somebody is of or has converted to a religion that that makes them a bad guy. megyn: lars you re already hearing some folks on the left that supported this position by portland are already coming out and pointing the finger not at the former portland mayor, or the current mayor or the city council that voted on this, but at the fbi saying this was entrapment, this is not just the guy s lawyer. but it s not. megyn: pointing the funker at the fbi saying you basically entrapped him. here is what one commentator writes, get this. by busting mohamed osman mohamud while attempting to detonate the fake bomb the justice department may this compromised mohamed osman mohamud ability to receive a fair trial. that actually is quoting, i think the guy s lawyer. so they should have busted him not when it looked so bad for him because that would have given him more chance at a fair trial, lars. no i think that is a balone.
transported to an area medical center. his condition unknown. none of the hostages were hurt. larry jacobs, abc news. classes at the high school have been canceled for the time being. grief counselors are being made available for students and faculty. that 19-year-old somali-american accused of a bomb plot in portland, oregon, says he is innocent. mohamed osman mohamud pleaded not guilty yesterday. he s accused of attempting to bomb the downtown portland christmas tree lighting ceremony friday. he s tentatively set to to on trial in february. a strong earthquake has shaken a large part of japan this morning. the 6.9 quake was centered 300 miles underwater off the southern coast. it caused buildings to sway in tokyo but there were no reports of major damage or injuries. officials say there was no danger of a tsunami.
this is the work of this guy this young american named caan who fled to yemen in 2009, and he is believed to be the guy who is kind of putting out this magazine on his desk top reaching, we don t know how many thousands of young american muslims. and you say american muslims. these are islamic extremists. we keep saying home grown terrorists. we keep mislabelling who is downloading and buying this magazine. we don t know. we don t have figures on that that anybody has cared to distribute to the report. that s the scary part. what is interesting is that they feel a need to target a message to this audience. i think the important thing to remember about mohamed osman mohamud who was the 19-year-old guy from portland is that he was first identified and flagged to the f.b.i. by a tip from someone in the muslim community so this works both ways. you don t want law enforcement so intrusive that it asends and
federal court behind me on a single count of attempting to use a weapons of mass destruction which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. his arrest on friday evening a few blocks away ended a long sting operation, which the fed say saved many american lives. the f.b.i. says it was mohamud, naturalized citizen who chose this lighting ceremony as the terror target. he told an undercover agent he wanted to kill or injure all 10,000 people at the event, including women and children. police only made the arrest after mohamud dialled a cell phone number he thought would detonate a massive car bomb that would wipe out two city blocks. the bomb was a fake, assembled by the joint terrorism task force. the attorney general says it wasn t entrapment. there were a number of opportunities that the subject in this matter, defendant in this matter was given to retreat, to take a different
lips with the women when they come out. fantastic. good luck with that. all right. meanwhile, 27 minutes before the top of the hour on this tuesday. we have headlines for you. north korea s parliament leader is in beijing for five days of talks with china. china is north korea s only significant ally. tensions remain high, though, with the united states and south korean warships continuing a major exercise in the yellow sea. next month, south korean and japanese leaders will be in washington, d.c. to talk about how to diffuse the situation in north korea. the city of portland, oregon, now hoping to reverse a past decision when it opted out of the f.b.i. s terror task force. city leaders denied the force during george w. bush s presidency in protest of his anti-terrorism policies. the change of heart after the feds busted mohamed osman mohamud for trying to blow up a van during a christmas tree lighting. so-called bombs just dummies provided by the f.b.i. so i guess portland wan