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The arrest of petty crooks over a plan to target Jews has put the use of sting operations under fire
ON the steps of New York city hall on Friday, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor, praised the police officers and federal agents who helped disrupt an apparent terrorist plot to blow up a synagogue and shoot down military aircraft.
The mayor was flanked by more than 100 homeland security and counter-terrorist specialists, all of whom had a hand in an elaborate sting that netted four alleged Muslim extremists. Their plan, according to FBI agents, was to detonate a “fireball that would make the country gasp”.
The operation was acclaimed by New York officials for its success in averting what David Paterson, the state governor, described as “a heinous crime”.
Yet not every New Yorker was impressed by the latest in a long line of purported anti-terrorist triumphs that have supposedly averted tragedy in New York, Chicago, Toronto and several other North American cities since September 11, 2001.
“This whole operation was a foolish waste of time and money,” claimed Terence Kindlon, a defence lawyer who represented the last terror suspect to be tried in New York state. “It is almost as if the FBI cooked up the plot and found four idiots to install as defendants.”
Kindlon’s complaints were echoed by other legal experts who have repeatedly questioned the FBI’s reliance on undercover informants – known as confidential witnesses (CWs) – who lure gullible radicals into far-fetched plots that are then foiled by the agents monitoring them.
“Did they really need all those men in ninja suits with M16 rifles to arrest four idiots?” wondered Kindlon, a former marine sergeant whose main concern is that real terrorists may be plotting undisturbed while domestic US agencies focus on fantasists. “Somewhere, someone in Al-Qaeda must be laughing.”
Originally posted by Drexl
From The Sunday Times
May 24, 2009
“This whole operation was a foolish waste of time and money,” claimed Terence Kindlon, a defence lawyer who represented the last terror suspect to be tried in New York state. “It is almost as if the FBI cooked up the plot and found four idiots to install as defendants.”
Kindlon’s complaints were echoed by other legal experts who have repeatedly questioned the FBI’s reliance on undercover informants – known as confidential witnesses (CWs) – who lure gullible radicals into far-fetched plots that are then foiled by the agents monitoring them.
www.timesonline.co.uk...
Originally posted by dashen
Yep. And then there's the CIA. Who actually recruits REAL terrorists to do REAL attacks. But you'll never ever see THAT on the front page of the Daily News. Bastards.
Originally posted by grimreaper797
Just stop it, you know what he meant. He meant he saw the news footage of the countless amateur videos shot of PLANES running into the buildings. Tell the people who SAW the planes first hand that they didn't see planes, and they will be waiting for you to tell them the sky isn't blue too.
I live in central Jersey so I know people who saw those towers come down first hand. People that came home covered in dust and debris. You can't tell them that planes didn't hit those towers.
Originally posted by mmiichael
I understand the uncertainty for some whether this qualifies as a case of entrapment.But we lack very little information so far. This is what a court of law determines.
What I fail to understand is why there are so many so hostile to the the US and it's agencies, they immediately take the side of people they know almost nothing about, and assume they are innocent victims rather than potentially dangerous perpetrators.
Originally posted by ANNED
Back when i worked as a blaster i had people that wanted to by explosives from me.
I reported them to a NCIS agent i knew and they all disappeared and never contacted me again.
Why cant you just congratulate the FBI for a job well done and for protecting you and your fellow citizens
Originally posted by Kailassa
There are millions of idiots out there who can be groomed, goaded and guided by an older person who pretends to be a friend and pushes them in the wrong direction.
Originally posted by mmiichael
Originally posted by Kailassa
There are millions of idiots out there who can be groomed, goaded and guided by an older person who pretends to be a friend and pushes them in the wrong direction.
Sounds like a school I went to.
How would you describe a mosque with a radical imam?
Originally posted by v3_exceed
However, that's not the point of my post. It was suggested that because it had been seen on TV, that the information was factual. This was the point of my post. ANY person, in this day and age that uses "I saw it on TV" as a definitive point of proof, should be slapped...
These days it is NOT possible to take the NEWS on face value. The NEWS has become a corrupt vassal of the propaganda arm of the government. However, it would seem that ATS has become far more reliable with breaking news than anything on the MSM, even though we have to put up with the mindless drivel of the "government can do no wrong" group.
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Is that something like a synagogue with Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, but Muslim?
Interesting guy, Kahane.
Do you support his teachings on the necessity of driving out all the original inhabitants of Israel and killing all, men, women and children, who won't leave?
Sadly, some people I know are being taught that their holy writings dictate that.
There are millions of idiots out there who can be groomed, goaded and guided by an older person who pretends to be a friend and pushes them in the wrong direction.
Originally posted by Kailassa
Originally posted by mmiichael
Originally posted by Kailassa
There are millions of idiots out there who can be groomed, goaded and guided by an older person who pretends to be a friend and pushes them in the wrong direction.
Sounds like a school I went to.
How would you describe a mosque with a radical imam?
Is that something like a synagogue with Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, but Muslim?
Interesting guy, Kahane.
Do you support his teachings[/url] on the necessity of driving out all the original inhabitants of Israel and killing all, men, women and children, who won't leave?
Sadly, some people I know are being taught that their holy writings dictate that.
Originally posted by bobbylove321
No planes crashed into the WTC. IF you can prove it to me, then I'm willing to look at the possibility of that happening.
OVER 99.99% of people DID NOT see planes crash into the WTC. Just because on TV it says planes crashed doesn't make it true.
Not to mention it's been proven that NO plane crashed into the Pentagon and that in FACT it was a missile, so again check your facts.
Originally posted by masonwatcher
I do believe most orthodox rabbis are genuinely religious and God fearing, many of the reform rabbis are atheists and shop fronts for radical and extremist activities more often than not associated with the criminal underworld and/or mossad.
It is interesting to note the glee of Israeli apologists here over this pathetic story. The irony is that the events on this news item has nothing to do with the Middle East, terrorism, a threat to the US or the 'war against terror'. It is really about psyops against the American people gone bad.