Ten days after a white supremacist murdered shoppers in a racist premeditated attack that the FBI may have known about in advance, the agency issued a self-congratulatory press release for “foiling” a separate plot that they themselves invented.
, the government’s other informant, absconded from Albania after an attempted murder and entered the U.S. without documentation. He was in immigration detention awaiting deportation — and likely a death sentence under Kanun, a common alternative to the traditional legal system, in his native country — when he agreed to cooperate in exchange for legal status. These benefits came with concrete expectations and both informants understood that they were expected to deliver.
Omar’s primary target was Mohamed Shnewer, a young Palestinian nearly half Omar’s age who lived with his parents and worked at their family halal grocery store. Omar frequented the store, striking up conversations with Shnewer about politics and their shared disenchantment with U.S. imperialism abroad. Over the course of several months, Omar shifted gears from discussing politics to badgering Shnewer to do something.
After months of pressure, Shenwer finally relented, making an off-hand remark about potential places to target in order to satiate Omar, after which Omar beganabout who to include in this fictitious plan. Shnewer, again, at Omar’s request, rattled off names of people he knew — several of whom were his relatives. A cursory review of Shnewer’s statements are so plagued with internal contradictions and inconsistencies that relying upon them as evidence of criminal intent is laughable at best.
Far more likely, a paid government informant targeted Shihab, an immigrant who had left his family in Iraq less than two years earlier, worked in a grocery store, and likely had no deep community ties, friends or family locally. Over time, the informant used these vulnerabilities to gain his trust and confidence, exploiting the U.S. role in the destruction of Shihab’s native country to compel him to participate in the plan that the FBI had already contrived.
These fictitious plots further cement an environment of fear and xenophobia which continue to fuel the endless profit-driven “war on terror.” In a tragic irony, this very imperialism is directly responsible for both displacing many Muslim immigrants, like Shihab, from their country of origin, and simultaneously banning them from seeking refuge in the U.S. through discriminatory immigration policies like the Muslim ban.
Österreich Neuesten Nachrichten, Österreich Schlagzeilen
Similar News:Sie können auch ähnliche Nachrichten wie diese lesen, die wir aus anderen Nachrichtenquellen gesammelt haben.
‘Great resignation’ reaches White House with staff turnoverNot even the White House is immune from the economic trend that's been called the 'great resignation” as employers struggle to fill vacancies and workers jump to new jobs at record rates
Weiterlesen »
FBI busts online black market selling millions of stolen Social Security numbersUS law enforcement officials took a victory lap over dismantling the SSNDOB websites trafficking in stolen data like Social Security numbers.
Weiterlesen »
Brookings president resigns amid FBI foreign lobbying probeThe president of the Brookings Institution resigned Sunday amid a federal investigation into whether he illegally lobbied on behalf of the wealthy Persian Gulf nation of Qatar. Retired Gen. John Allen wrote in a letter to the think tank that he was leaving with a “heavy heart' but did not offer a direct explanation. A retired four-star Marine general who led U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Allen's announcement came less than a week after the Associated Press was first to report on new court filings that showed the FBI had seized Allen’s electronic data as part of the lobbying probe.
Weiterlesen »
Brookings president resigns amid FBI foreign lobbying inquiryThe president of the Brookings Institution resigned Sunday amid a federal investigation into whether he illegally lobbied on behalf of the wealthy Persian Gulf nation of Qatar.
Weiterlesen »
Brookings President Resigns Amid FBI Foreign Lobbying ProbeThe president of the Brookings Institution has resigned amid a federal investigation into whether he illegally lobbied on behalf of the wealthy Persian Gulf nation of Qatar.
Weiterlesen »
A violent gang, an FBI informant and the truth behind one of L.A.’s deadliest firesA fire at a L.A. apartment building killed 10 people in 1993. Years passed. But detectives collected fading memories of witnesses, piecing together fragments of a story that, in their view, pointed toward a drug dealer and members of the 18th street gang.
Weiterlesen »