Jersey Jihadist Carlos Almonte is an idiot, says former computer shop boss
By Barry Paddock and Rich Schapiro
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Thursday, June 10th 2010, 4:00 AM
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He wasn't the brains of the operation.
Carlos Almonte, one of the terror suspects busted at Kennedy Airport, stunned co-workers at a New Jersey computer shop with his stupidity.
"I'm telling you, this kid is not smart," said a supervisor. "The simplest stuff we told him to do, he couldn't - like organize this with that."
Almonte worked at the store for more than a year, but quit about two weeks ago, saying life's "too expensive" in the Garden State, the supervisor said.
"We were planning to lay him off, but he beat us to it," said the boss, who spoke on the condition that his name and the shop not be identified.
Almonte told his co-workers he was moving to another state - apparently a cover for his planned trip to Africa.
Authorities say Almonte and his wanna-be jihadist pal Mohamed Alessa were planning to link up with an Al Qaeda-linked militant group in the hope of getting the chance to kill American troops.
His co-workers were amazed their dunce of a colleague is accused of such an ambitious plot.
"The simplest stuff he cannot do. How's he going to do something like that?" the supervisor said.
Almonte is not the first accused terrorist to be labeled a bonehead.
Accused Times Square car bomber Faisal Shahzad made simple mistakes in constructing a bomb and left behind reams of physical evidence.
Almonte, 24, and Alessa, 20, are due in Newark Federal Court today for a bail hearing.Barry Paddock
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