FBI Tried to Lure Orlando Shooter into a Terror Plot in 2013

(As I suspected, the “contact” the FBI had with Omar Mateen back in 2013 was actually yet another case of the agency trying to create another fake terrorism plot for them to foil (or allow to go through) but Omar didn’t go along for the ride. According to this, they wanted to frame Omar as a terrorist in 2013 and failed to do so. And here were are in 2016 and there are no connections to “ISIS” with the FBI leading the investigation. Cute huh?)

from Telesur

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation tried to “lure” Orlando shooter Omar Mateen into committing a terror plot in 2013 through the planting of an informant in his life, revelations that raise serious questions about the FBI’s indirect role in shaping the recent Orlando terror attack through its entrapment policies.

In an exclusive interview published June 15, Sheriff Ken Mascara of Florida’s St. Lucie County told the Vero Beach Press Journal that the FBI dispatched an informant to “lure Omar into some kind of act” but he “did not bite.”

The plan, Mascara said, came after Mateen had threatened a courthouse deputy by saying he could order al-Qaida operatives to kill his family.

The FBI is known to be using similar entrapment policies when dealing with those they suspect of belonging to terror organizations or receptive to committing terrorist acts.

In a 2013 column for Mother Jones website, Trevor Aaronson, a journalist and author of “Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terror,” revealed that “nearly half of all terrorism cases since 9/11 involved informants, many of them paid as much as US$100,000 per assignment by the FBI.”

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