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Patterns of FBI Manufactured “Terrorists”

10 Feb

Case Studies in FBI-Manufactured Terrorism by Trevor Aaronson of MotherJones

The “Poor”

Pattern: Target is broke and thinks he can make big money by catering to informant’s suggestions.

Case study: Derrick Shareef was 22 and desperate for cash to fix his car when an informant approached him at the video game store where he worked in the fall of 2006. The informant, a career criminal, offered Shareef a vehicle, a place to live, and free meals at his house. It was the day before Ramadan, and Shareef, who’d been on the outs with his family since converting to Islam at age 15, saw the offer as an act of God. Weeks later, he told the informant he wanted to attack a courthouse and “smoke a judge.” The informant suggested attacking a shopping mall at Christmas instead. Shareef excitedly agreed; since he was still broke, he traded an “arms dealer”—in fact an undercover FBI agent—a set of speakers for some grenades and a 9mm handgun. Similar use of large monetary incentives were used with poor individuals desperate for money like in the case of the Newburgh Four one of whom (David Williams) needed money to pay for his brother’s medical treatment.

Charge: Attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction
Sentence: 35 years Read the rest of this entry »

 

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Posted by aseerun on February 10, 2012 in News Items

 

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FBI Foils Own Fabrication – Again…

04 Oct

On Wednesday 28th September, a US citizen was apprehended and charged with plotting an attack against the Pentagon and US Capitol building in Washington using explosive remote-controlled aircrafts. Similarly, he was charged with providing material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organisation, namely Al-Qaeda. Rezwan Ferdaus, a 26 year-old physics graduate was arrested in Massachusetts as part of an intensive sting operation carried out by the FBI who posed as al-Qaeda sympathisers.He had allegedly requested the undercover agents to get him materials including explosives, grenades and six AK-47s which would be used to ‘launch a jihad against Americans in the US and abroad’. According to an affidavit, Ferdaus had apparently created IED’s disguised as mobile phones to be used against American troops overseas and was reportedly pleased when two undercover agents falsely said that the mobile phone IED’s had killed three U.S soldiers.

Ferdaus’ case however is not unique as this is not the first sting operation in the US which has resulted in an individual charged with terrorism. According to a study carried out by Ohio University, 40% of all the terrorism cases relating to the US since 2001 were instigated or facilitated by undercover FBI agents. For example in September 2009, a Jordanian citizen, Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, was arrested and charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction on a skyscraper in downtown Dallas. Like Ferdaus, he too was under surveillance by the FBI who disguised themselves as being part of an al-Qaeda sleeper cell. However, according to the affidavit and US attorney Carmen Ortiz, Ferdaus was allegedly solely responsible for concocting the planned attacks unlike other sting operations which have been rumoured to frame individuals.

In Ferdaus’ case, the accusation is primarily of a terrorist nature. However, a phenomenon within the American justice system has been highlighted recently by another study conducted by Mother Jones in conjunction with the University of California-Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program. Afterreviewing 508 terrorism-related cases in the US, they found that 53% of the cases did not involve any terrorism charges. These cases were merely associated with terrorism because of the offender’s identity rather than the actual nature of the crime. The three New Jersey Arab grocers are an example of this as they were caught with stolen Kelloggs Cornflakes and yet were somehow linked to terrorism and the infamous example of Aafia Siddiqui, who was charged with attempted murder and sentenced to 86 years as a result.

 

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Posted by aseerun on October 4, 2011 in News Items

 

Tags: Aafia Siddiqui, Ashland, Boston, Carmen Ortiz, fabricating terrorism, FBI, FBI setup, Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, http://motherjones.com, Mother Jones, Pentagon Plot, Rezwan Ferdaus, shady informants, sting

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