Numerous sting operations FBI encouraged sometimes even paid Muslims commit terrorist acts. The FBI encouraged and sometimes even paid Muslims to commit terrorist acts during numerous sting operations after the 9/11 attacks.
Far from protecting Americans, including American Muslims, from the threat of terrorism.
The policies documented in this report have diverted law enforcement from pursuing real threats,” said the report by Human Rights Watch.
Human Rights Watch examined 27 cases from investigation through trial, interviewing 215 people.
Including those charged or convicted in terrorism cases, their relatives, defense lawyers, prosecutors and judges.
“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 said.
Numerous sting operations FBI encouraged sometimes even paid Muslims commit terrorist acts.
The rights group charged that the FBI often targets vulnerable people.
In the cases reviewed, half the convictions resulted from a sting operation, and in 30 percent of those cases the undercover agent played an active role in the plot.
Numerous sting operations FBI encouraged sometimes even paid Muslims commit terrorist acts.
Americans told that their government is keeping them safe by preventing and prosecuting terrorism.
Inside the US,” said Andrea Prasow, the rights group s deputy Washington director.
FBI encouraged paid Muslims commit terrorist acts; HR report.
But take a closer look and you realize that many of these people would never have committed a crime.
If not for law enforcement encouraging, pressuring and sometimes paying them to commit terrorist acts.”
The report cites the case of four Muslim converts from Newburgh, New York.
Who were accused of planning to blow up synagogues and attack a US military base.
A judge in that case “said the government came up with the crime, provided the means, and removed all relevant obstacles.
And had, in the process, made a terrorist out of a man whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in scope, ” the report said.
The rights group charged that the FBI often targets vulnerable people, with mental problems or low intelligence.
It pointed to the case of Rezwan Ferdaus, who sentenced to 17 years in prison at age 27 for wanting to attack.
The Pentagon and Congress with mini-drones loaded with explosives.
An FBI agent told Ferdaus father that his son “obviously” had mental health problems, the report said.
But that didn t stop an undercover agent from conceiving the plot in its entirety, it said.
“The US government should stop treating American Muslims as terrorists-in-waiting,” the report concluded.
FBI pushed Muslims to plot terrorist attacks: rights report.
