To no one's surprise, the two NJ men accused of wanting to help a violent extremist group kill American troops—Mohamed Mahmood Alessa and Carlos Almonte were arrested at JFK Airport as they started their journey to the group, based in Somalia—were denied bail. The AP reports, "U.S. Magistrate Madeline Cox Arleo cited the severity of the charge and the risk of flight."
Almonte's boss tells the papers that the terror suspect wasn't very bright. The computer shop supervisor said, "I'm telling you, this kid is not smart." Almonte worked at the shop's cash register, but the boss said, "The simplest thing he could not do -- and he was going to do something like [joining terrorists]? We didn't think that was possible." Almonte and Alessa went to Jordan and allegedly tried to join Al Qaeda in 2007, but were turned away at the Iraqi border.
The boss added that Almonte quit recently—claiming life was "too expensive" in NJ—"We were planning to lay him off, but he beat us to it."
