FBI ‘Lured Dimwits’ Into Terror Plot

May 25th, 2009

Via: Times Online:

ON the steps of New York city hall on Friday, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor, praised the police officers and federal agents who helped disrupt an apparent terrorist plot to blow up a synagogue and shoot down military aircraft.

The mayor was flanked by more than 100 homeland security and counter-terrorist specialists, all of whom had a hand in an elaborate sting that netted four alleged Muslim extremists. Their plan, according to FBI agents, was to detonate a “fireball that would make the country gasp”.

The operation was acclaimed by New York officials for its success in averting what David Paterson, the state governor, described as “a heinous crime”.

Yet not every New Yorker was impressed by the latest in a long line of purported anti-terrorist triumphs that have supposedly averted tragedy in New York, Chicago, Toronto and several other North American cities since September 11, 2001.

“This whole operation was a foolish waste of time and money,” claimed Terence Kindlon, a defence lawyer who represented the last terror suspect to be tried in New York state. “It is almost as if the FBI cooked up the plot and found four idiots to install as defendants.”

Kindlon’s complaints were echoed by other legal experts who have repeatedly questioned the FBI’s reliance on undercover informants – known as confidential witnesses (CWs) – who lure gullible radicals into far-fetched plots that are then foiled by the agents monitoring them.

The last such plot purportedly involved an alleged attempt to blow up a fuel pipeline at John F Kennedy airport in New York in 2007; the defendants are awaiting trial in a case that depends heavily on evidence from an undercover CW.

“One question [about the synagogue case] that has to be answered is: did the informant go in and enlist people who were otherwise not considering trouble ?” said Kevin Luibrand, who represented a Muslim businessman caught up in another FBI sting three years ago. “Did the government induce someone to commit a crime?”

The other question that US security experts were debating was how much had been achieved by assigning more than 100 agents to a year-long investigation of three petty criminals and a mentally ill Haitian immigrant, none of whom had any connection with any known terrorist group. “They were all unsophisticated dimwits,” said Kindlon.

3 Responses to “FBI ‘Lured Dimwits’ Into Terror Plot”

  1. ltcolonelnemo says:

    Would it be fair to say, that on a domestic front, they are victims of their own success?

    Since everybody already has the Ralph Peters’ bayonet of media-induced apathy wedged into their heart, nobody cares enough to become a terrorist, so they have to be manufactured in sufficient quantities to keep the hordes of policemen from dying of the blood clots forming in their legs that result from them sitting on their asses all day.

  2. Eileen says:

    This is sickening. Might as well be a story of 100 agents to investigate the purchase of a dildo to be used for personal pleasure acts.
    Sorry to be so graphic but this article is surely troubling but I don’t think it is a true potrayal of federal investigators. No one I know even considers jobs advertized on USA JOBS for postitions offered under the Department of Homeland Security. I think these positions as offered sound like offers to join the SS under Nazi Gernmany.
    It doesn’t help US national security at all to read that major crimes are being attribute to people that can’t spell the word food.
    But I think that’s part of the plan. Attribute all crimes to supposedly dumb people, instead of of the masterminds of the Illumanti who are getting so desperate and are losing their their control over the newsline message.
    I wonder what the newsline message will be re terrorists when the PTB lose their ability to manage the message to masses?
    Is this when people in power will not be killed by Darth but will jump of their own accord?

  3. Larry Glick says:

    So-called “Terrorism” has become the latest cottage industry for the American Gestapo.

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