Charlie Savage has the details. He reports that "the investigation played out in a similar fashion to the arrest last month in Oregon, after a complex sting operation, of a Somali-born teenager who thought he was detonating a car bomb at a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony."
But it does sound like there were some new elements involved here:
The official said the Baltimore suspect first came to the attention of the authorities several months ago, after somebody reported suspicious postings on his Facebook page to the authorities.
Sneaky. One wonders if the authorities are being a bit more circumspect about the details here given the backlash that followed the last case.
