The bureau also gave Osmakac the car bomb he allegedly planned to detonate, and even money for a taxi so he could get to where the FBI needed him to go. Osmakac was the target of an elaborately orchestrated FBI sting that involved a paid informant, as well as FBI agents and support staff working on the setup for more than three months. The FBI provided all of the weapons seen in Osmakac’s martyrdom video.
He didn’t even have enough money to replace the dead battery in his beat-up, green 1994 Honda Accord. The government could not provide any evidence that he had connections to international terrorists. According to the government, Osmakac was a dangerous, lone-wolf terrorist who would have bombed the Tampa bar, then headed to a local casino where he would have taken hostages, before finally detonating his suicide vest once police arrived.īut if Osmakac was a terrorist, he was only one in his troubled mind and in the minds of ambitious federal agents. Department of Justice would later call a “ martyrdom video.” He was also broke and struggling with mental illness.Īfter recording this video in a rundown Days Inn in Tampa, Florida, Osmakac prepared to deliver what he thought was a car bomb to a popular Irish bar. Osmakac was 25 years old on January 7, 2012, when he filmed what the FBI and the U.S. “Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth,” he says. He refers to Americans as kuffar, an Arabic term for nonbelievers. Osmakac says he’ll avenge the deaths of Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and elsewhere. YoutubeThe recording goes on for about eight minutes. Osmakac in his “martyrdom video.” (YouTube)
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