I have always thought that the so called war on terror is a big phony.....( not going to talk about 911, since that is taboo here). There is a new book out that takes a look at the ten years since 911...It is called "The Terror factory: inside the FBI's manufactured war on terror"http://www.amazon.com/...
The author , Trevor Aaronson, chronicles all the big so-called terrorist busts in the U.S in the last ten years and he finds that they all have something in common......walk this way.....
" the organization responsible for more terrorist plots over the last decade than any other is the FBI. Through elaborate and expensive sting operations, invoving informants and undercover agents posing as terrorists, the FBI has arrested and the Justice dept. has prosecuted dozens of men government officials say posed direct-but by no means credible or immediate- threats to the United States.
In other words, all the terrorist plots that were foiled and announced at high power press conferences , began as the brain child of FBI agents posing as terrorists to entrap some poor misguided soul who at one time expressed discontent with the U.S Govt.
"government-described terrorists were able to carry forward their potentially lethal plots only because FBI agents and informants provided them with all the means-in most cases delivering weapons and equipment, in some cases even paying rent and doling out a little spending money to keep the suspects on the hook
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Look,if there are not enough real-life terrorists who actually have their own funding and actually have enough intelligence to come up with their own plans and have the ability to carry them out....I say to hell with trying to come up with some just to make the FBI look good...and I"ll go even further......if you have to make up terrorists just so you have somebody to arrest, maybe you should get out of the anti-terrorist business altogether!
"In cities around the country where terrorism stings have taken place-a central question exists: is the FBI catching terrorists or creating them?"
I think that's a damn good question, and the book is a damned good read....