Saturday, July 14, 2007

Man Convicted in Plot to Blow Up U.S. Pipelines

An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:

A man who claimed he had been trying to root out terrorists on the Internet was convicted Friday of plotting to help a supposed al-Qaida operative blow up U.S. oil pipelines and refineries.

A federal jury took only 90 minutes to convict Michael C. Reynolds of providing material support to terrorists and other charges.

Reynolds, 49, of Wilkes-Barre, was arrested in December 2005 after authorities said he tried to meet someone he thought was an al-Qaida contact about 25 miles from a motel in Pocatello, Idaho, where he had been staying. The contact turned out to be Shannen Rossmiller, a judge from Conrad, Mont., who was working for the FBI.

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