Attempted bombing

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(08-20-2021, 02:44 PM)Au165 Wrote: Depending on if he had ever attempted to acquire anything needed to build said bomb the charges could end up all over the board. If he just rolled up and made the threat you're probably looking at making a terroristic threat and then other various low level charges. If he tried to actually plan and acquire things to make said bomb you are looking at conspiracy to obtain a weapon of mass destruction among other things.

It depends on many factors, but much of counter terrorism involves identifying potential threats via identifiable actions and intervening before things get too far down the line. 

The prosecution will say he made his intentions clear and he was intercepted before he could get closer to achieving that goal.  Can they make a reasonable argument that he was scouting the place our and was going to return with a bomb had that not intervened when they did?  That's the question. 

The DoD hopefully doesn't just wait until potential terrorists are armed and intervene at the second just to make sure their case is as obvious as possible.  Prevention is the name of the game.