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FBI Celebrates Foiling Its Own Terror Plot, Again
Federal agents convinced a naïve, violence-inclined 21-year-old Bangladeshi that he was a member of “al-Qaeda,” giving the dupe fake bombs to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York before swarming in and arresting him on October 17. As has become typical, government officials scrambled to put out press releases patting themselves on the back for their work protecting the “Homeland.”
In reality, however, there was no al-Qaeda, there was no threat, there were no bombs, and the only alleged “plot” the FBI “foiled” was the one it helped hatch with its dupe, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis. Like the vast majority of recent domestic “terror” schemes against the United States, the latest supposed “operation” was essentially run by authorities from start to finish.
“It is important to emphasize that the public was never at risk in this case, because two of the defendant’s ‘accomplices’ were actually an FBI source and an FBI undercover agent,” Acting Assistant FBI Director Mary Galligan admitted in a press release celebrating the arrest. “The FBI continues to place the highest priority on preventing acts of terrorism.”
The criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court also confirmed that authorities gave their dupe bogus explosives to carry out the bogus attack. "The material that purported to be the explosive material was actually inert and posed no threat to the safety of the public," the document confirmed, fueling more criticism of the government’s terror-war tactics that include cultivating terrorists and supplying all their terror needs.
The apparently dim-witted young man from Bangladesh was in the United States on a student visa when he allegedly tried to find others to join him in carrying out an attack. According to the criminal complaint, he miraculously managed to find an FBI source to help on his mission. The confidential informant promptly introduced him to government agents who promised to assist.
Source and full story: The New American, 18 Oct 2012
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Re: FBI Celebrates Foiling Its Own Terror Plot, Again
This is so depressing. Bangladesh is an extremely impoverished nation. In such places, local agents work for the USA. Their task is to find eligible candidates that the U.S. government can bring to the USA on “student visas.” Once the U.S. government has brought its patsy to the USA, the government works on the patsy’s mind, keeping him under great fear and stress, constantly threatening him with jail and deportation. In Mr. Nafi’s case, this went on for ten months. Meanwhile, along comes another operative for the government who tells the patsy that all will be well. “We will take care of you.” You want some extra money? See that van there? I’ll give you a hundred bucks if you drive it to such-and-such place, along this precise route (which happened to be Liberty Street in New York City). The patsy knows nothing about the USA, and nothing about what is in the van. As he drives past the Fed building (not even knowing what the building is), the government grabs him. Voila: another terrorist plot foiled! The patsy can protest all he likes, but no one will listen, since he is a “terrorist.”
And so, at age 21, Mr. Nafi is sent to solitary confinement at the federal ADX “supermax” facility in Florence Colorado for the rest of his life, having no idea what happened. Another innocent victim used and discarded.
And the American masses cheer.
Re: FBI Celebrates Foiling Its Own Terror Plot, Again
I can't see any evidence that anyone outside the Federal Bureau of Incitement or their media mouthpieces is cheering. Then again, the notion of "the masses" is one I simply don't concur with. If anything, society is increasingly fragmented, the opposite of the unified "hive mind" implied by the term "the masses". I suspect most people are too busy trying to keep a roof over their heads and food on their tables to even notice that this latest FBI "set 'em up and knock 'em down" farce has even happened.
Re: FBI Celebrates Foiling Its Own Terror Plot, Again
Perhaps so. I was speaking figuratively in saying, "And the masses cheer." Still, in my opinion there does indeed exist a "hive mind," as evidenced by most people's brainwashing about the holo-hoax, national finances, presidential elections, WW II, and countless other things. Anyway, 90 percent of reader comments at the large corporate media outlets favor the "war on terror" in all its aspects, including this latest incident.
Re: FBI Celebrates Foiling Its Own Terror Plot, Again
If there is a hive mind, I suspect it is trained to put up and shut up, not to rock the boat, not to put its head above the parapet. Reader comments on corporate media outlets can not be taken as indicative of the views of the general population because these days so many people are paid to post comments favourable to government and condoning its corruption and attrocities.
Re: FBI Celebrates Foiling Its Own Terror Plot, Again
Okay, we have different opinions on this. I still say that society exhibits a herd instinct, and that the public tends to move and think like a school of fish. I say that most people have a craving to belong to some group, whether literally or symbolically (as when they have an urge to get a tattoo, because everyone else has tattoos). I say that most people are brainwashed about many things, and that they can easily be made to march off to die by the millions. I say that the masses are much more mindless and conformist than you may think.
Just my viewpoint.
Re: FBI Celebrates Foiling Its Own Terror Plot, Again
I don't disagree that most people have a craving to belong to a group. That's where we get sports fans from who have never kicked a ball in their lives, yet are undyingly loyal to their favourite football team. Conformism is a defense mechanism. If I conform, they'll leave me be, let me get on with my life. If I stick out from the crowd, then I'll be a target for everything that's bad.
Like you say, its just my viewpoint.
Re: FBI Celebrates Foiling Its Own Terror Plot, Again
Look at the picture of the victim. And here.
So young.
The U.S. government and NYPD are psychopathic predators.
Mr. Nasfi had been enrolled at North South University in Bangladesh when a U.S. agent approached him, offered to send him to Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and pay his tuition at the university. It was a dream come true. The FBI did everything for him; filled out his I-20 form, fast-tracked his visa, and whisked him to Missouri, all expenses paid. When it was time to use and dispose of him, the FBI ordered the university to kick him out. This was done in July. The FBI moved him to New York City, telling him they would pay his tuition for a school in Brooklyn. This was a violation of his student visa, but the FBI took care of that. However the FBI did not pay for his tuition a second time. Instead, the FBI put Mr. Nafis put into a small apartment and kept in a stressful limbo until it was time to dispose of him. Now his life is over.
I like to think that after a while the U.S. government will secretly let him out of jail and quietly fly him back to Bangladesh, with the understanding that if he ever opens his mouth, then he and his entire family will be liquidated. But this may be a fantasy, nothing more.
Re: FBI Celebrates Foiling Its Own Terror Plot, Again
I suspect it probably is a fantasy, although it would be nice if it became reality. It would also be nice if the common-law defense of entrapment could apply here, but when has it ever been used successfully in a case where the Federal Bureau of Incitement has set someone up?
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Not a single terrorism case has been thrown out of court for entrapment since Septmember 11, 2001. This poor Nafis kid couldn't even drive a car, but he was supposed to have masterminded a plot to blow up the New York Fed with a van carrying a 1,000lb bomb.
A good piece on FBI terror entrapment at Rolling Stone notes that, "In all these law enforcement schemes the alleged terrorist masterminds end up seeming, when the full story comes out, unable to terrorize their way out of a paper bag without law enforcement tutelage." One victim, Hemant Lakhami, nicknamed "Habib" (Arabic for "sweetheart" or "darling") was so naive that, not knowing what they were, referred to night-vision goggles as "sunglasses", and so desperate for the attention of his FBI informant friend that he offered to sell him actual submarines. This criminal (FBI informants are almost invariably felons, which is how they wind up in these positions) had tried to get poor "Habib" to sell him Stinger missiles after the kid had originally offered to sell him mangoes. In another case in Oregon, an attention starved "terrorist" claimed that he could get hold of an AK47 because he was a rapper, but had failed to get in touch with an alleged Islamic extremist in Pakistan because he couldn't spell the e-mail address. Upon Habib's conviction on terrorism charges , the New Jersey District Attorney - who is now Governor of New Jersey - told a press conference that, "Today is a triumph for the Justice Department in the war against terror. I don't know that anyone can say that the state of New Jersey, and this country, is not a safer place without Hemant [Habib] Lakhani trotting around the globe attempting to broker arms deals." Presumably he was referring to those deadly nuclear submarines.
At the first link, a defense attorney for one of these hapless patsies notes that, "The people they repeatedly come up with continue to be people who have no ability to do something on their own," and that the U.S. authorities are targeting "the dumbest we have to offer." The same has happened here in Australia. Martin Bryant, who is supposed to have been single-handedly responsible for the Port Arthur massacre which led to the nationwide banning of firearms and the total disarmament of Australia, was variously described as "possibly autistic", suffering from "mental retardation", and had the mind of an 11 year old with an IQ of just 66.