Jihad at Pioneer Courthouse Square | OregonLive.com: But that affadavit notes the following:
-- When Mohamud could not get in touch with terrorists oversees, the FBI contacted him.
-- While Mohamud "spent months working on logistics," Denson's story notes, and "allegedly identified a location to place the bomb," he "mailed bomb components to the FBI operatives, who he believed were assembling the device." Does that mean Mohamud did not build the bomb?
-- The FBI "operative" was right there with Mohamud on Nov. 4 at "a remote spot in Lincoln County, where they detonated a bomb concealed in a backpack as a trial run for the upcoming attack."
-- And the FBI transported Mohamud to Portland so that he could carry out the deadly bombing.
So, the way this reads, the FBI assisted him any way they could.