Why Are the Feds Cultivating "Homegrown Terrorists"?
The FBI caught another homegrown terrorist this week, except like many recent plots the agency has “uncovered,” the attack was a plant, a plan concocted by the FBI itself. It’s the latest in a growing number of terrorism plots that the FBI stirs up by infiltrating communities and helping to devise attack plans. The practice raises serious questions about the government’s implementation of it’s ongoing war on terror.
Geraldo: All Recent Terror Plots Are Fake
Geraldo Rivera explains to Bill O’Reilly the FBI’s role in recent terror plots.
Nafeez Ahmed on Al-Qaeda As Western Asset
“At every major strategic point in the world, we find that US and Western power is symbiotically melded – through financial, military and intelligence connections – with al-Qaeda; and further that al-Qaeda has in certain places been explicitly used as a military-intelligence asset by Western powers, particularly the United States and United Kingdom. This documentation […]
Coleen Rowley on The Need For A New Investigation
“The official dissembling and excuse-making about the true causes and prior mistakes that gave rise to and allowed the terrorist attacks to happen, almost immediately ushered in the Bush-Cheney Administration’s egregious and lawless, post 9-11 “war on terror” agenda which bore no connection to the original causes and no connection to the goal of reducing […]
FBI: Mohamud Thought 9/11 Was "Awesome"
In addition to discussing the plot, the agents directed Mohamud to purchase what they said would be components of the bomb. He spent roughly $110 of FBI money at a Radio Shack. Mohamud was also given $2,700 to rent an apartment to assist in his escape from the US after the bombing. The agents also arranged for Mohamud to engage in a dry run on detonation of the bomb. They took him to a remote location and told him to dial a cell phone number. Explosive experts staged an explosion to give Mohamud the feeling that he could actually detonate the car bomb. Agents carried the plot all the way to streets of Portland with a fake bomb in a van, parked at a location selected by Mohamud.
The FBI Successfully Thwarts Its Own Terrorist Plot
The FBI is obviously quite pleased with itself over its arrest of a 19-year-old Somali-American, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, who — with months of encouragement, support and money from the FBI’s own undercover agents — allegedly attempted to detonate a bomb at a crowded Christmas event in Portland, Oregon. Media accounts are almost uniformly trumpeting this event exactly as the FBI describes it.
"Terror Threat" a Big Political Win for Obama and Dems
Though the administration has declined to raise the terror alert level, the very public nature of the Yemen bomb plot is seen as giving President Obama and incumbent Congressional Democrats a much-needed political shot in the arm, conveniently enough just days before the midterm elections. The plot gave an opportunity for President Obama to look […]
Karzai: Blackwater Causes Terrorism, Deaths of Children
Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has accused private security firms of fueling war in his country, while reiterating his commitment to ban them by the end of the year. “These private security firms have caused insecurity and they’ve caused infringement of people’s rights,” he said on Monday, despite pressure from the US-led alliance on him […]
Robert Fisk: The Terror of Power and the Power of Terror
From the National Radio Project: Long time Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk knows the difference between real terror and rhetoric. He’s interviewed Osama Bin Laden 3 times, and been on the front lines with numerous armies – from the Syrians to the Israelis. On this edition, Robert Fisk speaks about the power of words in […]
Obama May Have Exaggerated Terror Threat For Political Gain
A US terror alert issued this week about al-Qaida plots to attack targets in western Europe was politically motivated and not based on credible new information, senior Pakistani diplomats and European intelligence officials have told the Guardian. The non-specific US warning, which despite its vagueness led Britain, France and other countries to raise their overseas […]