[Lunims]

For whatever reason, the FBI doesn't have the recording of the first meeting they had with Mohamud, which could prove damaging to the prosecution.

This kid was given the cash to carry this out and then the list of bomb components that he had to get and send to the undercovers, who he thought were building the bomb for him.

This kid is an example of someone who was being influenced by the wrong side of Islam, from websites he visited and participated in. He made repeated attempts to reach a man who moved back to Yemen who is associated with Al Qaeda and the feds intercepted those e-mails and began tracking him.

How far would this kid have gone had he been left to his own devices? It is the million dollar question of this story, and we'll never know now because I believe law enforcement bungled it up. They should have just followed him instead of being an accomplice to him and giving him the means necessary to carry it out. He was already on a no-fly list.

He shouldn't be released until this case runs it's course and we find out exactly how involved the undercovers were, particularly the one who developed the relationship with him in the first place.

The burden of proof will fall to the prosecution to show that he got things going, but I just don't know how anyone will be able to ignore the fact that had he not been given the means to go out and make the purchases he did, would he have done this on his own?

It's really a shame, because by intervening and helping to cook this whole thing up with him, we'll never know what we were actually dealing with here. So instead of a normal situation where law enforcement follows the guy and then arrests him after he's actually done something illegal like buying bomb parts on his own, we've got to deal with the fact that if he goes away forever, it will be because of a criminal situation that never actually existed except for in his mind, since no one was actually going to get blown up that day.