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17 Nov, 2011

Fake terror plots, paid informants: the tactics of FBI ‘entrapment’ questioned | World news | guardian.co.uk

Williams and three other struggling local men beset by drug, criminal and mental health issues were convicted of an Islamic terrorist plot to blow up Jewish synagogues and shoot down military jets with missiles.

Even more shocking was that the organisation, money, weapons and motivation for this plot did not come from real Islamic terrorists. It came from the FBI, and an informant paid to pose as a terrorist mastermind paying big bucks for help in carrying out an attack. For McWilliams, her own government had actually cajoled and paid her beloved nephew into being a terrorist, created a fake plot and then jailed him for it.

via Fake terror plots, paid informants: the tactics of FBI ‘entrapment’ questioned | World news | guardian.co.uk.