The Big (Imaginary) Black Friday Bombing

[galdur]

How the case of conflicted teenager Mohamed Mohamud — convinced by the FBI he was bombing a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon — could determine whether the American government is allowed to spy wholesale on its citizens. ...

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/nicolasmedinamora/did-the-fbi-transform-this-teenager-into-a-terrorist#.moLeW0VZM

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[Emersonnets]

Hm interesting, the link is not working for me.

I would like to read more about this

Edit: it's working now, gonna read it

[ThunderThomas]

Insane how they set him up, I feel kinda conflicted about this because he was set up

But then again he was ready and willing to let a bomb go off

[galdur]

Insane how they set him up, I feel kinda conflicted about this because he was set up

But then again he was ready and willing to let a bomb go off

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Well, what if a bomb HAD gone off after all. What if it hadn´t been fakery? Then it would have been a major terror tragedy. Do you think that the FBI would have disclosed how they set it all up?

It´s a kid. Gets 30 years. It´s scandalous.

Emad A. Salem is an FBI informant, who was a key witness in the trial of Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad, and Wali Khan Amin Shah, convicted in the World Trade Center Bombing of February 26, 1993.
After the bombing, Salem stated that the FBI knew about the bombing plot, and agreed to foil it by supplying fake explosives to him. Salem taped his telephone conversations with FBI agents. Those tapes were provided to defense lawyers, although they were not used in the trial. In December 1993, James M. Fox, the head of the FBI's New York Office, denied that the FBI had any foreknowledge of the attacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emad_Salem

[Pentax]

I read the entire article.

This is pretty bogus shit by the FBI.  It's not like he went looking for the opportunity and that's how they latched onto him.  they cooked the entire thing up.

Obviously, there's a lot more here than can be contained in just the article, but what I see ain't good.

[RodeoX]

If the gov wants to spy on me then I must double down on protecting my comms. Here is what you want: https://www.surespot.me/

People are trying to ban this app... because it actually works. 

[eddie13]

Hang him high..

This shows how easily "moderate" muslims can be "radicalized"..