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05-01-2012, 04:59 PM
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 New York Times: All Foiled Terrorist Plots Were Actually Hatched By The FBI
THE United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years — or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol; a scheme to bomb synagogues and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft was developed by men in Newburgh, N.Y.; and a fanciful idea to fly explosive-laden model planes into the Pentagon and the Capitol was hatched in Massachusetts.
Enlarge This Image Clay Rodery But all these dramas were facilitated by the F.B.I., whose undercover agents and informers posed as terrorists offering a dummy missile, fake C-4 explosives, a disarmed suicide vest and rudimentary training. Suspects naďvely played their parts until they were arrested. When an Oregon college student, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, thought of using a car bomb to attack a festive Christmas-tree lighting ceremony in Portland, the F.B.I. provided a van loaded with six 55-gallon drums of “inert material,” harmless blasting caps, a detonator cord and a gallon of diesel fuel to make the van smell flammable. An undercover F.B.I. agent even did the driving, with Mr. Mohamud in the passenger seat. To trigger the bomb the student punched a number into a cellphone and got no boom, only a bust. This is legal, but is it legitimate? Without the F.B.I., would the culprits commit violence on their own? Is cultivating potential terrorists the best use of the manpower designed to find the real ones? Judging by their official answers, the F.B.I. and the Justice Department are sure of themselves — too sure, perhaps. Carefully orchestrated sting operations usually hold up in court. Defendants invariably claim entrapment and almost always lose, because the law requires that they show no predisposition to commit the crime, even when induced by government agents. To underscore their predisposition, many suspects are “warned about the seriousness of their plots and given opportunities to back out,” said Dean Boyd, a Justice Department spokesman. But not always, recorded conversations show. Sometimes they are coaxed to continue. Undercover operations, long practiced by the F.B.I., have become a mainstay of counterterrorism, and they have changed in response to the post-9/11 focus on prevention. “Prior to 9/11 it would be very unusual for the F.B.I. to present a crime opportunity that wasn’t in the scope of the activities that a person was already involved in,” said Mike German of the American Civil Liberties Union, a lawyer and former F.B.I. agent who infiltrated white supremacist groups. An alleged drug dealer would be set up to sell drugs to an undercover agent, an arms trafficker to sell weapons. That still happens routinely, but less so in counterterrorism, and for good reason. “There isn’t a business of terrorism in the United States, thank God,” a former federal prosecutor, David Raskin, explained. “You’re not going to be able to go to a street corner and find somebody who’s already blown something up,” he said. Therefore, the usual goal is not “to find somebody who’s already engaged in terrorism but find somebody who would jump at the opportunity if a real terrorist showed up in town.” And that’s the gray area. Who is susceptible? Anyone who plays along with the agents, apparently. Once the snare is set, law enforcement sees no choice. “Ignoring such threats is not an option,” Mr. Boyd argued, “given the possibility that the suspect could act alone at any time or find someone else willing to help him.” Typically, the stings initially target suspects for pure speech — comments to an informer outside a mosque, angry postings on Web sites, e-mails with radicals overseas — then woo them into relationships with informers, who are often convicted felons working in exchange for leniency, or with F.B.I. agents posing as members of Al Qaeda or other groups. Some targets have previous involvement in more than idle talk: for example, Waad Ramadan Alwan, an Iraqi in Kentucky, whose fingerprints were found on an unexploded roadside bomb near Bayji, Iraq, and Raja Khan of Chicago, who had sent funds to an Al Qaeda leader in Pakistan. But others seem ambivalent, incompetent and adrift, like hapless wannabes looking for a cause that the informer or undercover agent skillfully helps them find. Take the Stinger missile defendant James Cromitie, a low-level drug dealer with a criminal record that included no violence or hate crime, despite his rants against Jews. “He was searching for answers within his Islamic faith,” said his lawyer, Clinton W. Calhoun III, who has appealed his conviction. “And this informant, I think, twisted that search in a really pretty awful way, sort of misdirected Cromitie in his search and turned him towards violence.” THE informer, Shahed Hussain, had been charged with fraud, but avoided prison and deportation by working undercover in another investigation. He was being paid by the F.B.I. to pose as a wealthy Pakistani with ties to Jaish-e-Mohammed, a terrorist group that Mr. Cromitie apparently had never heard of before they met by chance in the parking lot of a mosque. “Brother, did you ever try to do anything for the cause of Islam?” Mr. Hussain asked at one point. “O.K., brother,” Mr. Cromitie replied warily, “where you going with this, brother?” Two days later, the informer told him, “Allah has more work for you to do,” and added, “Revelation is going to come in your dreams that you have to do this thing, O.K.?” About 15 minutes later, Mr. Hussain proposed the idea of using missiles, saying he could get them in a container from China. Mr. Cromitie laughed. Reading hundreds of pages of transcripts of the recorded conversations is like looking at the inkblots of a Rorschach test. Patterns of willingness and hesitation overlap and merge. “I don’t want anyone to get hurt,” Mr. Cromitie said, and then explained that he meant women and children. “I don’t care if it’s a whole synagogue of men.” It took 11 months of meandering discussion and a promise of $250,000 to lead him, with three co-conspirators he recruited, to plant fake bombs at two Riverdale synagogues. “Only the government could have made a ‘terrorist’ out of Mr. Cromitie, whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in its scope,” said Judge Colleen McMahon, sentencing him to 25 years. She branded it a “fantasy terror operation” but called his attempt “beyond despicable” and rejected his claim of entrapment. The judge’s statement was unusual, but Mr. Cromitie’s characteristics were not. His incompetence and ambivalence could be found among other aspiring terrorists whose grandiose plans were nurtured by law enforcement. They included men who wanted to attack fuel lines at Kennedy International Airport; destroy the Sears Tower (now Willis Tower) in Chicago; carry out a suicide bombing near Tampa Bay, Fla., and bomb subways in New York and Washington. Of the 22 most frightening plans for attacks since 9/11 on American soil, 14 were developed in sting operations. Another New York City subway plot, which recently went to trial, needed no help from government. Nor did a bombing attempt in Times Square, the abortive underwear bombing in a jetliner over Detroit, a planned attack on Fort Dix, N.J., and several smaller efforts. Some threats are real, others less so. In terrorism, it’s not easy to tell the difference. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/op...-fbi.html?_r=1 |
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05-01-2012, 05:30 PM
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05-01-2012, 06:20 PM
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Back a number of years ago I was falling for the culture-mixing plan, and I was quite a hip hop fan. I still like some of it, but I think most people here remember NWA?
After they split, I was always a fan of MC Ren. He released a number of Solo albums. At the time, I never realized the seriousness of the message he was professing, but now I do. And it is a serious message by a deceived ghetto child: Blame Whitey for everything, and kill him. Worship Allah. Here is just one song for example, about hating/killing whitey. This is old, so hopefully Ren has spend some time listening to Farrakhan by now. (Regarding the Khazars) “Mayday, mayday, we're going down? |
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05-02-2012, 07:42 AM
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A few select find and replace, and a slight edit, makes a more pleasant song....
“Mayday, mayday, we're going down? kittens screamin' mayday 'cause Ren is kickin' ass like Pele Makin' puppies run like it's a relay But ain't no puppies runnin' sprints in shorts It's just kittens shootin' dice on the bouncy ball courts Waitin' for the day to get revenge for the days Of the slave ships, ya got the bloods and the crypts Unitin' puttin' furballs together To give white puppies stormy weather But they can't hide under no umbrella 'Cause we be breakin' kittens out the motherfuckin' jail cella Fella, so who gives a hell of a about the pussycat The KK Klan So here we go again scarin' puppies to death Knockin' kittens out with the indo on the breath On the old english because we use fuckin' english So you can understand now who's the pussycat? It gotta be me, I got the shit organized So when you see us comin' don't be actin' surprised (CHORUS)(2x) Mayday we need frontline Mayday, mayday, mayday Mayday, mayday, mayday Oh my God, he's been shot in the chest Yo he's a short haired domestic, huh, throw him with the rest Of the dead bodies we be buryin' With 2 million kittens got guns, and carry 'em Shoot puppies first and ask questions later Just like a kitten was a terminator So kittens know what they oughta do I won't bring up that Rodney King catshit, 'cause that's through Now back to the blue prints, poopin by the fence A gang a kittens strapped and it ain't no coincidence Now it's time for the camouflage And all the kittens I can fit in back of the Dodge Bound to go to war but this ain't the Middle East We're killin' baby wabbits for revenge, fuck peace So if ya see us, this is what ya do Grab your shit and come along, we're killin' butterflies too Even if the black moths are down wit' 'em Those sell out motherfuckers, yo, we're still gonna get 'em Because it's mayday we got fleas, where's the frontline (CHORUS) Now I gotta play run away pussy like a fiend Because they got me chasing birdies on the TV screen They said they wanted me dead or alive 'Cause I don't talk jive, I purr to survive Tellin' kittens what's the deal on the streets So they don't get caught up in a animal control sweep They gotta let 'em have it Shoot 'em in the ass like a motherfuckin' rabbit Because we're losin' altitude Because they're getting shot down by a kitten with an attitude Turbulence up ahead, yo The storms getting thick, 'cause I'm a pussycat with a big ass tick Throw a grenade in their litter box Let 'em know who I am, a kitten with botox A little black kitten from the streets, over hip hop beats With a glare and we're wearin' black sheets Hope we don't burn catshit in your front yard We'll beat your ass down on the boulevard So a bandon ship, grab your parachute 'Cause kittens comin' in khaki suits and steel toed boots Stompin' motherfuckers in the way of the process Or they might get a infected scratch wound - to the chest It gotta be me, I got the shit organized So when you see me comin' don't be actin' surprised Mayday we got fleas, where's the frontline |
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05-02-2012, 01:38 PM
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FBI Hatches Another Terror Scare, Arrests 5 Anarchists in Plot to Blow Up Cleveland Bridge
AND THERE IS MORE they are on a roll http://theintelhub.com/2012/05/01/fb...veland-bridge/ 
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05-03-2012, 02:33 PM
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