Fake terror plots, paid informants : the tactics of FBI ’entrapment’ questioned | World news

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  • Fake terror plots, paid informants : the tactics of FBI ’#entrapment' questioned | World news | guardian.co.uk
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment-fake-terror-plots?CMP=twt_gu

    Instead 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. “I feel like I am in the Twilight Zone,” she told the Guardian.

    Lawyers for the so-called Newburgh Four have now launched an appeal that will be held early next year. Advocates hope the case offers the best chance of exposing the issue of FBI “entrapment” in terror cases.

    Après ce genre d’articles, j’ai toujours un pensée émue pour tous ceux qui passent un temps considérable à expliquer que les « théories du complot » ne sont destinées qu’aux déséquilibrés et aux fachos.