Government Agents Involved in High Profile Terror Plots

Government agents are ‘directly involved’ in most high-profile US terror plots that’s according to a Human Rights Watch report issued on Monday. The report detailed that “”In some cases the FBI may have created terrorists out of law-abiding individuals by suggesting the idea of taking terrorist action or encouraging the target to act.”

The report corroborates allegations made by author Trevor Aaronson in his book, The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism” Aaronson book jacket reads, “the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than 15,000 informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate phony terrorist plots so that the Bureau can then claim it is winning the war on terror.

Just yesterday, we reported on ATF “stash house sting operations” that target criminals often living in urban areas. But this new report reach even further, accusing the US Justice Department of marking suspects by their ethnic and religious identity before setting a trap to arrest them. The 214-page report named “Illusion of Justice” reviews 27 different cases and studies the entire process: stemming at the initiation of the investigation to the sentencing and post-conviction conditions of confinement.

Tom Nelson, an attorney from Portland, Oregon, is quoted in the report saying, “This community is under siege. And even if they’re not under siege, they think they are.”

In a country where racism, bias and racial profiling has created endless pain and turmoil, the American Muslims are subjected to closer scrutiny than their non-Muslim neighbors.

Many Muslims were held at Guantanamo Bay indefinitely and without being charged.

Since 9/11, the US sent 494 cases to trial on the grounds of terrorism. 18 percent of all convictions are based on “material support,” a category enabled by the Patriot Act that allows prosecutors more reign to pursue people that may be somehow connected to a terrorist act or group.

Many human rights organizations protest these practices for the same reasons they do the urban drug bust operations. But there is also a strong belief within human rights groups that paying informants in a trade for information is placing incentive on the wrong side of entrapment.

This report calls into question every “foiled” terror plot the FBI has claimed a victory over and now even the “war on Terror” at-large. The real question is just how long will the American people endure trading their freedom for security – while the FBI is setting up false terror events to justify increased police power.