How to Manufacture a Terror Plot

[Matt Collins]

SOURCE:
http://reason.com/blog/2010/11/23/how-to-manufacture-a-terror-pl

[tangent4ronpaul]

The assistant imam said the suspicion Hussain was an informant was so great "it was almost like he had a neon sign on him." A congregant told a reporter that, in retrospect, everyone wished they'd called him out or turned him in. "Maybe the mistake we made was that we didn't report him," the man said. "But how are we going to report the government agent to the government?"

can you say entrapment?

-t

[dannno]

Wow, great article!!


My only complaint about Conover's article comes when he uncritically quotes the legal scholar Jon Sherman, who argues that "we are throwing way more resources at homegrown terrorism in Muslim communities than we are in poor and disaffected communities that support militia groups in places like Ohio and Tennessee and Michigan....[I]f you put the same effort into infiltrating those communities with undercover informants, you might make as many cases if not more." As it happens, they've done the entrapment thing in the militia milieu several times as well, with the same pointless results. Manipulating a bunch of dumbos who wouldn't have come up with a terror plot on their own is a bad idea, period, no matter what demographic they hail from.