The teenager suspected of attempting to blow up the Portland, Oregon tree-lighting ceremony this week couldn't have been less assuming, according to those who knew him.
If 19-year-old Mohamed Osman Mohamud was "absolutely committed" to detonating a van full of explosives at a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in downtown Portland this weekend, he sure did put up a good front in the quiet college town where he studied engineering, say friends and fellow Muslims at the mosque where he sometimes worshipped.
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The Somalia-born teenager lived a typical student life, said Mona Aly Hassanein, an alum of the school who's now teaching English in Egypt, via a Skype interview with The Daily Beast. He was funny, a good conversationalist, a clown. He was known as "Mo." And he never let on that he hated America.
"He never once said anything like that,...
If 19-year-old Mohamed Osman Mohamud was "absolutely committed" to detonating a van full of explosives at a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in downtown Portland this weekend, he sure did put up a good front in the quiet college town where he studied engineering, say friends and fellow Muslims at the mosque where he sometimes worshipped.
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The Somalia-born teenager lived a typical student life, said Mona Aly Hassanein, an alum of the school who's now teaching English in Egypt, via a Skype interview with The Daily Beast. He was funny, a good conversationalist, a clown. He was known as "Mo." And he never let on that he hated America.
"He never once said anything like that,...
- 11/28/2010
- by Winston Ross
- The Daily Beast
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