Synagogue Bomb Suspects: The Feds Put Us Up to It
March 20th, 2010Via: NBC New York:
Defense attorneys say an alleged plot to bomb New York synagogues was hatched and directed by a federal informant.
Lawyers for four men from Newburgh have filed a motion to dismiss the terror indictment against them.
They said the informant badgered the defendants until they got involved in the plot.
They said the informant chose the targets, supplied fake bombs for the synagogues and a fake missile to shoot down planes. The motion said he also offered to pay the defendants, who attorneys alleged weren’t inclined toward any crime until the informant began recruiting them.
“The government well knew that their case had been a government-inspired creation from day one and that the defendants had not been independently seeking weapons or targets,” the motion said.
Ffederal court spokesman Herb Hadad said the government would file its response next month.
The four men, who were arrested last May, face up to life in prison if convicted. They have been previously identified as James Cromitie, 55, David Williams, 28, Onta Williams, 32, and Laguerre Payen, 27, all of Newburgh in upstate New York, where authorities were conducting raids at their homes, sources said.
Authorities have said they had the plotters under surveillance since June of 2008 and there was “no chance” the alleged scheme could succeed. They credited the work of a long time informant with keeping tabs on the group.
The FBI has said the Muslim suspects were angry and full of hate for America.
This looks like the same M.O. the govt used in the 1993 WTC Truck Bombing. Except in that case, the govt let the attack take place.
Unluckily for the FBI in that case, the informant suspected that HE was being set up as the fall guy as well as the selected group of patsies.
Unbeknownst to the FBI, he recorded his conversations with his handlers and caught them on tape refusing to arrest the patsies and bring a halt to the bombing plot before the bomb could be detonated. A bomb that the informant built and armed for the patsies, at the FBI’s behest.
The bomb went off, as the informant had warned, and at first the FBI moved to arrest and charge the informant. But when he made them aware of his recordings and what was on them, they decided it would be a much better plan to cut him a nice fat check and send him on back to Egypt…
Which brings us back to this “plot”. At least the FBI didn’t engineer any actual injury to persons or significant property damage in this case, but this purely provocateured nonsense needs to stop. In the best case it’s a waste of resources, in the worst case it’s an illegal attempt to manipulate the American public and stampede us further into a police state.