The FBI plants the ideas, makes the plans, provides the fake weapons and money, creates the attempted act of terrorism, makes an arrest, and announces the salvation of the nation.Mother Jones has published a story derived from Aaronson's book. One section of his piece impacts my suspicion that Anwar al-Alaki may himself have been Uncle's "inside man" within Al Qaeda:
Over and over again. The procedure has become so regular that intended marks have spotted the sting being worked on them simply by googling the name or phone number of the bozo pretending to recruit them into the terrorist brotherhood, and discovering that he's a serial informant.
Between 911 and August, 2011, the U.S. government prosecuted 508 people for terrorism in the United States. 243 had been targeted using an FBI informant. 158 had been caught in an FBI terrorism sting. 49 (that we know of, FBI recording devices have completely unbelievable patterns of "malfunctioning") had encountered an agent provocateur. Most of the rest charged with "terrorism" had little or nothing to do with terrorism at all, most of them charged with more minor offenses like immigration offenses or making false statements.
Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born, high-ranking Al Qaeda official who was killed in a US drone strike in Yemen on September 30, 2011, became something of the terrorist group's Dear Abby. Have a question about Islam? Ask Anwar! Muslim men in nations throughout the Western world would email him questions, and Awlaki would reply dutifully, and in English, encouraging many of his electronic pen pals to violent action. Awlaki also kept a blog and a Facebook page, and regularly posted recruitment videos to YouTube.Maybe I'm wrong about Awlaki. Still, a Murdoch paper once came that close to identifying him as an American agent, and the Yemeni government never confirmed his death-by-droning. If Awlaki was not "ours," then can you explain why YouTube takes down lots of terror-advocating videos while keeping the cinematic stylings of Anwar al-Awlaki available for your viewing pleasure?
Maybe Aaronson (or another writer) should write a follow-up book, demonstrating how our "terrorism" theatricals have become a global masquerade. The terror bugaboo has replaced the Cold War. Not much more than two decades ago, people called me a traitor and a communist whenever I said that there was no evidence that the USSR had engaged in a conspiracy to conquer the United States. Today, I can say those words without much fear of contradiction. When will it be permissible to state that terrorism, though real, does not pose anything like the threat that we've been led to believe?
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