Man charged in model airplane bomb plot

[Ed W]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/28/us/massachusetts-pentagon-plot-arrest/

A 26-year-old Massachusetts man with a physics degree was arrested and charged Wednesday with plotting an attack on the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol with remote-controlled model aircraft, authorities said.

Rezwan Ferdaus, a U.S. citizen from Ashland, Massachusetts, planned to use model aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives, authorities said.

As a result of an undercover FBI investigation, Ferdaus, who has a physics degree from Northeastern University in Boston, was charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to al Qaeda for attacks on U.S. soldiers overseas, authorities said.

..."There is no information to indicate he was connected to a foreign terrorist organization. It appears he was radicalized watching videos on the Internet. He was given the opportunity to back down, but he never wavered" from his intention to carry out the attacks, the source said.

...Undercover federal agents also gave Ferdaus 25 pounds of fake C-4 explosives. Only a very small amount of it was the real thing, the source said.

The FBI agents also gave Ferdaus six AK-47 assault rifles and three grenades, but they weren't functional, the source said.

Between May and this month, Ferdaus also ordered and acquired a $6,500 remote-controlled aircraft, a F-86 Sabre, that he kept in a rented storage facility in Framingham, Massachusetts, that he maintained under a false name, authorities said.

Despite coming into possession of the plane, another law enforcement official said, "The person was never really a threat."


So here's another "lone wolf" aggressor radicalized - or so they say - by the internet.  He provided cellphones rigged as triggers, something that can be accomplished by any teenager with a soldering iron, and in return, the FBI gave him C4, grenades, and some AK47s.  I really have to wonder just how much of his radicalization came as a result of the FBI informant's influence.

[Breadburner]

Yes....I'm sure it was the FBI's fault....Jesus Christ.....

[patric]

Yes....I'm sure it was the FBI's fault....Jesus Christ.....

Does seem to be their style...

It may also just as easily be the case that the FBI -- as they've done many times in the past -- found some very young, impressionable, disaffected, hapless, aimless, inept loner; created a plot it then persuaded/manipulated/entrapped him to join, essentially turning him into a Terrorist; and then patted itself on the back once it arrested him for having thwarted a "Terrorist plot" which, from start to finish, was entirely the FBI's own concoction.  Having stopped a plot which it itself manufactured, the FBI then publicly touts -- and an uncritical media amplifies -- its "success" to the world, thus proving both that domestic Terrorism from Muslims is a serious threat and the Government's vast surveillance powers -- current and future new ones -- are necessary.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/11/28/fbi

But without the FBI's "help" most of these budding terrorists could barely unscrew a jar of peanut butter.
It's theater, and after ten years you should be able to see that by now.

[Breadburner]

Yeah....I'm sure if they used the same means to find the idiot in arizona you two dingle-berrys would grumble about that too....

[Hoss]

Yeah....I'm sure if they used the same means to find the idiot in arizona you two dingle-berrys would grumble about that too....

Idiot in Arizona?...ah yes, that's right, Palin moved there last year...