All part of the SELF-INFLICTED "TERROR" SCAM!
Umm, about that FBI and their informants: First WTC attack
"Closing Arguments Begin in Trial of Men Charged in Plot to Destroy the Sears Tower" by KIRK SEMPLE
Trial over already? Where was it in the MSM?!
Gee, the "bust" was ALL OVER THE PAGES of AmeriKa's SHIT MSM!
That's because these become shit cases in court rooms!
MIAMI, Nov. 29 — A group of Miami men led by an impoverished construction worker tried to form an alliance with Al Qaeda and start a homegrown religious insurrection against the American government that would include spectacular attacks “just as good or greater than 9/11,” a federal prosecutor said Thursday in closing arguments in the trial of the group.
Yeah, about 9/11!
Jacqueline Arango, an assistant United States attorney, said that the seven men took oaths to Al Qaeda in a ceremony caught on a hidden camera, and that they sought $50,000, weapons and other equipment from the terrorist organization to conduct their jihad, which included a plan to level the Sears Tower in Chicago and to blow up federal office buildings.
But lawyers for the seven defendants said the men were not terrorists but rather hapless indigents who, in an effort to raise money, were merely going along with the supposed Qaeda intermediaries. The intermediaries turned out to be undercover informants for the F.B.I.
Ana M. Jhones, the lawyer for Narseal Batiste, who is accused of being the ringleader, said her client was entrapped by the informants. She suggested that in one meeting, her client was nearly driven to tears as one of the informants persuaded him to take surveillance photographs of federal buildings around Miami.
“Manipulation” by the government “cannot be tolerated because of the war on terror,” Ms. Jhones said. “There are not enough people who want to do harm to the United States that we have to fabricate a crime?”
When the men were arrested in June 2006, American officials trumpeted the case as a demonstration of a need for pre-emptive prosecutions in the era after 9/11 and as an illustration of the urgency for greater vigilance against domestic insurgents.
While American officials at the time acknowledged that the men never acquired weapons or equipment and posed “no immediate threat,” Alberto R. Gonzales, then the attorney general, argued that homegrown terrorists “may prove to be as dangerous as groups like Al Qaeda.”
The men each face up to 70 years in prison if convicted of the four charges against them. They include conspiracy to provide material support to Al Qaeda, conspiracy to destroy federal buildings and conspiracy to wage war against the United States.
Central to the government’s evidence is a secretly recorded video that shows the men taking the oath under the guidance of one of the F.B.I. informants.
Can you say SETTING UP PATSIES, readers?!
Ms. Arango left no doubt about the video’s importance to the government’s case; she began her statement by playing the clip without introduction.
At the tape’s conclusion, she said, “Ladies and gentlemen, that is material support.”
Ms. Arango also said that evidence included the surveillance photos, lists of weapons and gear they requested from the informants, and conversations caught on wiretaps and concealed video cameras in which Mr. Batiste declares his intent to wage “a ground war” and to “make the people go crazy, cause chaos.”
“They weren’t going to be able to accomplish these grandiose plans alone,” she said, so they sought Al Qaeda’s help.
No, they would have had YOUR HELP!
You mean, THIS "Al-CIA-Duh," right?
But Ms. Jhones countered that while Mr. Batiste showed “extremely poor judgment,” he was a victim of the government’s desperation to reap a victory in its war on terrorism.
She referred to Mr. Batiste’s own testimony, in which he claimed he was simply playing along with one of the supposed Qaeda emissaries in order to get $50,000 to help support a religious organization he was building in Liberty City, a Miami neighborhood.
Waving stacks of money in her fist, Ms. Jhones said: “This is the motivating factor. I’m not saying it’s proper, but it’s not terrorism.”
But Ms. Arango scoffed at Mr. Batiste’s claim. “It doesn’t matter whether they did it for philosophical reasons or for money,” Ms. Arango said. “It all adds up to the same thing.”
Yeah, in a FASCIST GOVERNMENTS EYES!
The other defendants are Patrick Abraham, Burson Augustin, Rotschild Augustine, Naudimar Herrera, Lyglenson Lemorin and Stanley G. Phanor.
The men belonged to the Moorish Science Temple, which blends Islam, Christianity and Judaism and does not recognize the authority of the United States government. Their lawyers have argued that their mission is philanthropy, to minister to their community by helping the poor and teaching religion."
WTF kind of "terrorist" group is that?
I am TIRED of BEING LIED TO!