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Police arrested Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a teen-aged Somali-born US citizen, for attempting to detonate a bomb at a Christmas-tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Ore. Mohamud dialed a number he thought would detonate a bomb, but his plot had been penetrated by the FBI.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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