Portland Bomb: How the FBI Foiled Mohamed Osman Mohamud's Plot
A 19-year-old Somali-American was arrested Friday night in Portland after trying to detonate a bomb built by the FBI. In a post that first appeared on Newsweek.com, Christopher Dickey, Newsweek's Mideast editor and Paris bureau chief, reports on why the incident tells us as much about the FBI as it does about al Qaeda.
Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, is in custody after attempting to detonate a van he believed was filled with explosives during a Christmas tree lighting event in Portland, Oregon. (Photos: Getty Images)
