Mother Jones: Inside the Terror Factory

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Inside the Terror Factory
Award-winning journalist Trevor Aaronson digs deep into the FBI’s massive efforts to create fake terrorist plots.

—By Trevor Aaronson
| Fri Jan. 11, 2013 3:01 AM PST

Quazi Mohammad Nafis was a 21-year-old student living in Queens, New York, when the US government helped turn him into a terrorist.

His transformation began on July 5, when Nafis, a Bangladeshi citizen who'd come to the United States on a student visa that January, shared aspirations with a man he believed he could trust. Nafis told this man in a phone call that he wanted to wage jihad in the United States, that he enjoyed reading Al Qaeda propaganda, and that he admired "Sheikh O," or Osama bin Laden. Who this confidant was and how Nafis came to meet him remain unclear; what we know from public documents is that the man told Nafis he could introduce him to an Al Qaeda operative.

It was a hot, sunny day in Central Park on July 24 when Nafis met with Kareem, who said he was with Al Qaeda. Nafis, who had a slight build, mop of black hair, and a feebly grown beard, told Kareem that he was "ready for action."

"What I really mean is that I don’t want something that's, like, small," Nafis said. "I just want something big. Something very big. Very, very, very, very big, that will shake the whole country." ...

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/terror-factory-fbi-trevor-aaronson-book

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021569850#post64

[99th_Monkey]

1. I'm SO damned happy that this information is finally seeing the Light of Day. Woot.

That case we had here in Portland a year ago for the city's big Christmas tree lighting ceremony downtown, was so transparently bogus, and most others I read about strike me the same way.

Kudos to Mr Aaronson and MoJo for "going there".

[Doctor_J]

2. We're rapidly approaching USSR status

gettin' real ugly here. Between the government and Fox Nation, ordinary citizens are under siege.